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A Pocket Culinary Tour Through Israel

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SPEAKIING VOLUMES I can pinpoint with great accuracy the moment I fell in love with the photography of André Kertész, and that's because it was predicated on a misunderstanding. It happened in the Eighth Street Bookshop, one of Manhattan's legendary locales. It's long-gone now, its passing much lamented by those of us lucky enough to have lived in Greenwich Village...

Film & Television

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

Son's film disputes commission's faulting his father in part for Yom Kippur debacle

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Michael Elkin

MOVIE MANIA Father's daze? What better way to define the dizzying dips of befuddlement and undeniable deep sense of frustration that met Yair Elazar on his quest to find out about his mysterious father? Yair yearned for those evasive truths that would define the dad he knew only briefly since he died when Yair was only 10. But the missing...

Food

Go Ahead, Be a Chicken!

Really, there's no reason to be afraid of what's in this classic Passover fare

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Eileen Goltz

SLICE OF LIFE While I'm a fan of traditional chopped liver, I have a special place in my heart for chicken livers. There are those who think eating "organ" meat is, well, icky. However, being steeped in the lore of holiday fare, and the delicious variations created by my relatives, I have to say that chicken liver is not to...

Film & Television

A Plague Upon Their Unhappy House?

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Michael Elkin

This Jewish family has each other's back. Which makes stabbing all the much easier. Take a peep into the "Peep World" of the Meyerwitz clan, whose Patton-like patriarch (Ron Rifkin) acts as Jewish general to his ragtag rejects of an army/ family. Battle lines are drawn over the father's 70th birthday dinner where arguments and acrimony are rationed out to...

Food

Shabbat 101: Keep It Good, Keep It Light, Keep It Simple

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Louise Fiszer

We frequently host complete strangers at our Shabbat dinner table. They are friends of friends, distant relatives twice removed, a past social encounter passing through for the weekend or just people who need a place for a Sabbath meal. As a cook and hostess, this puts me at a disadvantage, for more often than not, I haven't a clue to...