Renee Ghert-Zand
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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Food The Soup Nazi Takes America — On Wheels
Back in 1995, it seemed the only way the Soup Nazi rolled was with “No soup for you!” But that was well before the current food truck craze. Now, thanks to a franchising operation, it’s possible to literally experience soup-ordering hell on wheels. Remember when you used to have to have to line up at…
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Recipes Remembering the Fallen Through a Mom’s Recipes
“There’s no joy. There isn’t a lot of strength. Everything is dead inside,” said Dina Kit about the emotional experience of losing a child. Kit speaks from personal experience, having lost one son to cancer and another, an Israel Defense Forces soldier, to a terrorist attack. One of the things Kit and other mothers are…
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Life Suicide and Fashion Just Don’t Mix
Suicide should never be in fashion, and it should also never be in a fashion spread. In case you missed it last week, the online media community was abuzz about a fashion photo spread called “Last Words” in Vice’s 2013 Fiction Issue. The editors decided that in the issue—devoted entirely to female writers, photographers, illustrators…
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The Schmooze 100 Years of Kibbutz Quilting
An exhibition of 21 quilts showing until July 3 at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto, Calif., stitches together a century of kibbutz life. Some of the quilts, full of colorful fields and small houses, celebrate the 100th anniversary of Israel’s kibbutz movement, while others are embroidered with a more critical eye…
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Food A Boureka Nightmare
Lovers of bourekas, one of Israel’s national foods, had better brush up on their geometry. The Chief Rabbinate has issued new guidelines on the shapes of the pastry pockets — and no, we’re not kidding. Until now, consumers have relied on signage by storeowners or package labels to discern among meat, dairy and pareve bourekas,…
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The Schmooze The Banality of Movies About Google
WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange stole my intended headline for this post: “The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil.’” Or maybe it was a New York Times copy editor, who gave that title to Assange’s opinion piece accusing Google of technocratic imperialism. Either way, now I can’t use it for fear of plagiarism… or at least, a…
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The Schmooze Israeli Composer Appointed Cleveland Music Director
Israeli-born composer Avner Dorman has been appointed Music Director of CityMusic Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, which is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary season. CityMusic Cleveland is a professional chamber orchestra that seeks to develop audiences by presenting free concerts in neighborhood venues. It presents four or five concerts per year and devotes most of its…
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Opinion How Do You Spell ‘Knaidel’?
Had Jack Lebewohl of the legendary 2nd Ave Deli been competing yesterday in the final round of 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee, he would have lost to the winner, 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali. The Jewish food maven would have misspelled the winning word: ‘knaidel’. “The thing is, we spell it k-n-e-i-d-e-l,” the deli man said in…
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