Rob Eshman is a senior columnist for the Forward. Follow him on Instagram @foodaism and Twitter @foodaism or email [email protected].
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By Rob Eshman
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When Rabbi Susan Talve heard that Patricia and Mark McCloskey would be among the speakers addressing the Republican National Convention, she decided she could no longer stay quiet. “It’s so upsetting that they have a national audience,” Talve said. “It’s upsetting we make heroes out of people who hate.” Breaking News: RNC Tuesday night speaker…
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News Angela Buxton and Althea Gibson modeled Black-Jewish partnership
Angela Buxton, an English Jewish Wimbledon champion who died this week at age 85, left behind a legacy as a very good professional tennis player, but an exceptional human being. At a time when tennis was deeply segregated, she befriended Althea Gibson, a Black American tennis phenom, and stuck by her side as Gibson cracked…
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Food Broiled trout with pickle butter and other recipes from Seth Rogen’s new movie
In truth I despise eating pickles, because they remind me of the deaths of many friends. But I do not want to be rude. —Sell Out by Simon Rich The movie “An American Pickle” tells the story of a turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrant to New York who falls into a vat at the pickle factory where…
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News Why do we care so much about what Seth Rogen thinks about Israel?
Can you get me Seth Rogen? I spent half of last week trying to use every connection I could to get to him. I, along with every other Jewish journalist, wanted to interview him about his comments on the Marc Maron podcast, which caused a Jewish firestorm. A Jewish firestorm doesn’t involve actual fire. It…
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News Kristalnacht in L.A. and other digital lies
The first time I received an e-mail decrying the outbreaks of pogroms in Los Angeles, I read as far as the all-caps title,”KRISTALLNACHT 2020 – DOES ANYONE CARE?” and no further. The second time, I read down to the part where the writer, Rabbi Yakov Saacks of The Chai Center in Dix Hills, compared the…
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News Beinart to Jews: It’s the democracy, stupid
This week, Jewish American commentator Peter Beinart wrote two essays promoting a one-state, bi-national solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. If you don’t have time to read the 8,000-word essay in Jewish Currents, there is a Reader’s Digest version in the New York Times Op-Ed section, with the provocative headline “I No Longer Believe in a…
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News How Uri Herscher reshaped Jewish L.A.
Every time I visited Dr. Uri Herscher in his office, I stopped to look at an old photo of him standing on top of a landfill beside a freeway. The freeway is still there, but the landfill has since 1996 been the Skirball Cultural Center, a nexus for education, community and culture in Los Angeles….
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News The CEO of Holy Land hummus I know doesn’t match the social media monster
The last time I saw Majdi Wadi, the owner of the Holy Land Brands in Minneapolis, and his daughter Lianne, we had our arms around one another, on stage in a synagogue auditorium. That was four years ago. The second time we spoke was Monday afternoon, as Wadi’s world was collapsing around him. Viciously racist…
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