Dorothy Lipovenko
By Dorothy Lipovenko
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Life Gwyneth Paltrow, Mikveh Maven?
“Girls, how would you like a honeymoon every month?” A famous question tattooed on the brains of nearly any woman who attended Jewish day school. Who can forget the opening gambit of the mikveh pitch, courtesy of the local rebbetzin, to a class of nervous, giggling 13-year-olds? It sure hooked me. I thought, “That cute…
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Life It’s Still Winter, But I’m Already Cleaning for Passover
Swept into the supermarket on a blast of cold air, my momentary fright is distracted by a tower of sparkling kosher grape and a scarier thought: “What a great price! Better stock up for Pesach.” And this was almost three months ago. Passover casts its shadow chez-nous in the darkest, shortest days of winter. Like…
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Food Kosher Grocery Run — A Hop, Skip and Border Crossing Away
“Anything to declare?” A Canada Customs agent casts a sidelong glance into the backseat of our car heading home to Montreal from Vermont. “Tobacco or alcohol of any kind?” Is he kidding? Who needs smokes and booze when I can buy kosher peanut cluster-buster cereal? “How long have you been in the United States?” About…
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Food The Rabbi’s Cookbook Collection
Like any rabbi, Robert Sternberg has seforim, volumes of Jewish learning and commentary, at home. But he may be alone among his peers with a collection of 500 cookbooks, many of which extend far beyond Jewish cuisine. The Denver native, who was ordained at an Orthodox yeshiva in Jerusalem and now has a congregation near…
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Life Reforming the Jewish Divorce Laws
Imagine investing in a business; the partnership sours, but the freedom to begin anew depends on your ex-partner honoring his obligation to sign your walking papers. This scenario best describes what confronts a Jewish woman when a marriage is over: a man must give his estranged wife a *get a religious divorce decree, without which…
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Food From Hard Boiled Eggs To Indian Buffets: The Foods Of Indian Shivas
At tables of food lining a neighborhood courtyard, a steady stream of visitors helped themselves to an al fresco meal. But the presence of several people on low chairs, eating from plates on their laps, suggested this was no festive occasion. Indeed, this was a public feast customary among Indian Jews sitting shiva, the seven-day…
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Food Bobes Tam: A Yiddish Culinary Insult
Recipes can be like a blind date: the ingredients sound intriguing, expectations run high but the finished product is not always as advertised. If the date doesn’t pan out, it’s one evening. But when a recipe that dirties a big pot has the nerve to fall flat? This deserves the Yiddish thumbs-down “doss hot mayn…
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Food Chabad Goes Vegan in Montreal
Hosting a group of young adults for Shabbat dinner, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath and his wife, Sara, noticed something odd: salads and kugels were disappearing quickly, but the chicken went largely untouched. When a little post-dinner sleuthing revealed many of their guests were vegetarian, it was all the incentive the Chabad rabbi needed to take his…
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