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Slideshows An Inside Look At How Organic Kosher Tequila Is Made
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Community Machine Guns And A Minyan At The NRA
The 2018 NRA Annual Meeting, held May 4 through 6, featured a full 15 acres of firearms, shooting and hunting equipment — and a minyan. “I’m on my way back from Dallas where I took part in the NRA annual meetings — there was a nice crowd of fellow Jews,” Jonathan Burstyn of Chi-Defense, which…
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Community Three Generations Of Barnard Alumnae Respond To Student BDS Referendum
On the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, students at Barnard College passed a referendum, written by students from Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine, calling upon the university administration to divest from eight companies that do business in Israel. However, on April 22, Barnard president Sian Leah Beilock stated that “Barnard…
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Community Would You Try Pizza Brei?
Like 54 percent of our readers, I hate matzo. Sure, I eat my obligatory portions at the Seder, can be cajoled into eating it if topped with plenty of lox, cream cheese, tomato and avocado, and even begrudgingly can admit that matzo pizza is borderline delicious. But matzo brei, the weird Jewish Passover “treat” of…
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Community Don’t Let Your Passover Leftovers Go To Waste
You meticulously prepped your Seder plate, made oodles of matzo ball soup, cooked enough brisket to feed an army, and are stocked up for the next 18 years on wine, matzo and macaroons. Now what do you do with all of that food once the holiday guests have left? You could throw the leftover parsely…
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Community A Third Of Israeli Jews Have Had It With The Passover Cleaning
According to a new survey conducted by The Peace Index, 37 percent of Israeli Jews are liberating themselves from cleaning their homes for Passover this year. 63 percent of the Jewish public will clean their homes of all chametz, the survey reports, and 67 percent will eat kosher-for-Passover food both inside and outside the home….
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Community Attention, Jewish Moms: The Y-Studs Just Released A Passover Music Video
With nary two days to spare, the Y-Studs, third only to the Maccabeats in the hearts of Jewish mothers (their own children are the best singers in the world have you heard them, of course), released their 2018 Passover music video, The Greatest Passover. I’m far from being a mom myself, but I’ve gotta say…
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Community Our Very Own Forward Scribe Contributor Won A ‘Woman Of Valor’ Award
Our very own Cindy Grosz, a prolific Scribe contributor and author of You Don’t Have To Be Jewish with Cindy, will be honored at the 2018 Young Israel Dinner with the Aishes Chayil (Woman Of Valor) Award for her work as a pro-Israel and education activist. Mazal tov, Cindy!
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