Alix Wallis a freelance writer in Oakland, Calif. where she specializes in Jews, love and food.
Alix Wall
By Alix Wall
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News How these couples solved the pandemic Jewish wedding dilemma: to wed or wait?
Ariel Platt and Lilli Flink, who met at Columbia University and now live in Philadelphia, both cried as they sent out an email this spring telling some 300-plus friends and family they were postponing their Labor Day wedding until 2021. It was not a decision they came to easily. In addition to the wedding, there…
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Life It’s the ‘biggest, queerest Jewish wedding’—and you’re invited
Chaya Milchtein’s dream wedding would have hundreds of guests. Her fiancée JodyAnn Morgan’s dream wedding would be just her, her partner and their officiant. In Morgan’s ideal world, she said, “I would just go to Vegas and call it a day.” Now, thanks to the coronavirus, they are both getting their dream wedding. This weekend,…
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News Psychedelic journeys helped Holocaust survivor George Sarlo. Now he’s helping others on their own journeys.
After his father disappeared to a forced labor camp in 1942, when George Sarlo was just 4 years old, it left a traumatic wound that would not heal for the next 70 years. Then, when he was in his 70s, Sarlo had a life-changing experience. After ingesting a psychedelic native plant in a Mexican fishing…
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News As COVID-19 rages at San Quentin, a prison rabbi and activist offer comfort and support
Kat Morgan led her last Shabbat service inside San Quentin State Prison on March 13. At one point during that service, and her co-leaders divided the congregants into small groups to share things that bring them joy during darker moments. “These people are experts in resilience,” she said. “They shared gratitude for things like prayer,…
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News ‘I’ll struggle with my father for the rest of my life:’ Neshama Carlebach wrestles with the legacy of her father Shlomo and ‘cancel culture’
Neshama Carlebach knows what its like to take heroes off their pedestals. “I know now the value of pain and being able to look inside,” she said. “What began as the greatest moment of loss in my life, I now see as a rising, and in that rising I can find my real voice.” As…
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News ‘We are all a bunch of weirdos’: Q&A with Doug Gertner, the grateful Jewish Deadhead
Doug Gertner was a typical suburban Ohio teen, uninspired by his Reform Jewish upbringing. With some money he received for confirmation, he bought his first Grateful Dead albums. That soon led to his attending his first show on a Sunday night, June 27, 1976 in Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. That changed his life forever. Gertner attended…
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Food In “Falastin: A Cookbook,” Sami Tamimi cooks with tradition, love and politics
Co-authoring the bestselling “Jerusalem: A Cookbook” in 2012 with business partner Yotam Ottolenghi made Sami Tamimi realize he’d someday do a cookbook of Palestinian food. Tamimi, a Palestinian Arab born in Jerusalem, has been with Ottolenghi, a Jewish Jerusalemite, since the beginning, often working as an executive chef. For this book, he has teamed up…
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News Now playing on Zoom: ‘Jewish Geography’
Of all the quarantine-created phenomena – Zoom cocktails, Zoom seders, Zoom dating – here’s one you may not have heard of yet: Jewish Geography Zoom Racing. The seventh episode, which has racked up a respectable 3,000-plus views ran on Facebook Live last weekend. In it, two competitors go head-to-head. Sometimes they know each other, sometimes…
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