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Community Do Yourself A Favor: Unplug This Shabbat.
Isn’t it time we turn off our devices and focus on what matters most in our lives? Leading up to the election, we were all on our screens more than normal, getting pinged and buzzed at every new development… and we tolerated this way of life, thinking when the election happened in November that it…
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Food Gumbo Shabbat In New Orleans — Treyf But True?
I make the treyf groceries first. (In New Orleans, you “make” groceries; you don’t buy them.) Traffic inches along North Broad Street, everyone eager to start the weekend. The sun is a ripe satsuma hanging above the Mississippi, and the Superdome reflects the purple sky. I have several stops to make before I even start…
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Community Shabbat Of Protest: Inside The Chicago Women’s March
The Women’s March was set for a Saturday morning. My first impression was that the organizers didn’t care whether Jewish women attended or simply knew nothing about Judaism. Such is the life of a minority. Religious Jews worship in synagogues on Shabbat mornings and don’t travel that day. Wanting to join the Women’s March, the…
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Recipes Weed-Infused Matzo Balls For Pot Shabbat
This is the first in a series by Jeff the 420 Chef, author of “The 420 Gourmet.” Try this contemporary twist on an old favorite. This is not your mama’s matzo ball soup — but with the added THC and CBD, I’m sure she’ll kvell with sheer delight. Tasty medicated matzo balls? What’s not to…
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Food World’s Largest Kids’ Challah Bake Braids Generations Together
Challah has never been just bread to me. I grew up watching my father proof his yeast every Friday at dawn before he’d race off to do rounds at the hospital, returning at midday to punch down and knead the aromatic dough before braiding and baking it. My dad also ventured into rolling out savory…
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The Schmooze Can Shabbat Be Sexy? I Went On a Mission to Find Out.
In case there were questions on the subject, let it be known that it is, in fact, difficult to eat soup while blindfolded. On the plus side, if everyone around you is blindfolded, too, you don’t have to worry about them silently decrying your marked lack of daintiness. So went one attendee’s distinctly un-spiritual train…
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Israel News Denying Chauffeur Privileges Abuse, Netanyahu Reveals His Son Keeps Shabbat
(JTA) — A spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports that his children get chauffeured on weekends to social events, revealing that his youngest son observes the Shabbat. The denial came following a report earlier this week by the news site The Marker on the publication of a personnel ad by the Prime…
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Fast Forward Does Trump Get Itchy Twitter Fingers When Jared’s Observing Shabbat?
Does Jared Kushner’s Shabbat observance lead father-in-law Donald Trump to go off the rails? It’s an open question after this weekend, when the new leader picked a fight with the media as his top adviser and crisis manager unplugged for the day. “He wasn’t rolling calls on Saturday when this happened,” an unnamed source told…
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