Leah Hochbaum
By Leah Hochbaum
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News Family Ties: A Personal Journey to Understanding
Life, Death & Bialys: A Father/Son Baking Story By Dylan Schaffer Bloomsbury USA, 272 pages, $24.95. At 38, legal-thriller writer Dylan Schaffer had never baked a bialy. Though raised in New York — a mecca for seekers of the doughy Jewish treat — he’d long ago abandoned the state’s humid shores for California, land of…
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News Teens Attend Inaugural JCC Arts Fest
After nearly 25 years of running the JCC Maccabi Games, an Olympic-style series of athletic competitions that attracts 6,000 Jewish teens from all over the world each year, the powers that be at JCC Association realized that a significant group of young people was being neglected. And so the JCC Maccabi ArtsFest was born. ArtsFest,…
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News One Woman’s Spiritual Quest
*Holy Unexpected: My New Life as a Jew By Robin Chotzinoff PublicAffairs, 240 pages, $25. When it comes to religion, a lot of people take a straight path. Not Robin Chotzinoff. In her new memoir, “Holy Unexpected: My New Life as a Jew,” the writer chronicles a twisted trail to her own unique brand of…
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Culture Hannah and Her Brothers
If “The First Time I Was 20” teaches viewers anything, it’s that teenage boys in the 1960s were sophisticated enough to recognize that beauty is only skin deep, and antisemitic classmates can become best pals if only they get to know the real you. In short, Lorraine Levy’s wisp of a movie, in French with…
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News Is There Chametz in Your Compact?
When clearing their homes of unleavened products before Passover, most people remember to rid the cupboards of rye bread and to empty the leftover challah from the freezers. Something that is forgotten by many, however, is the checking of makeup for traces of chametz. But it shouldn’t be. Though it may come as a surprise…
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News A Chainsaw Artist’s Unlikely Tale
On Father’s Day, most dads open gifts of ties, or golf clubs, or clay items shaped by children’s hands, eat medium-rare hamburgers at family barbecues and talk a lot of huff about how they’d do anything for their kids. On Father’s Day 1995, chainsaw artist Skip Roth actually proved this to his children by shooting…
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Israel News Old Wine, New… Martini Glass?
Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction, a three-tiered restaurant, cocktail lounge and performance space that opened on New York’s Lower East Side earlier this month, is a peculiar mix of Jewish and Latin cultures — much like the neighborhood it calls home. And it’s in the spirit of pluralism that the club’s founders, brothers Phil and…
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News Forget Hip Hop — iPod Puts the Talmud in the Palm of Your Hand
One day a week, on the Sabbath, Orthodox Jews render themselves virtually Amish by eschewing technology. But during the rest of the week, they often are quicker than most in embracing electronic gadgets, especially when in the service of religion. Case in point: the ShasPod, an Apple iPod equipped with daily Talmud lessons. The brainchild…
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