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Burger Chain Coming to Elkins Park

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Eric Berger

The owners of the Burger.org restaurants are trying to succeed where another kosher establishment failed, on Old York Road in Elkins Park. Eyal Aranya, who co-owns the Burger.org chain, plans to open in the space formerly occupied by Max & David's, which closed in April after five years. The transition will be made easier by the former restaurant's kosher certification...

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Father-Daughter Duo Pen a Book and Make a Big Bang of Their Own

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Andrea Cantor Jewish Exponent Feature

A little more than a year ago, David Prutchi, a biomedical engineer, approached his daughter with an unusual proposal -- to write a book together. At first, 16-year-old Shanni, who will be a senior this year at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, was skeptical. But it was only a moment's hesitation, she says, and now she's the proud co-author of...

History & Nostalgia

Beyond Brundibar

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Melissa Jacobs, Jewish Exponent Feature

The Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation is launching a celebration of the music, sports, art and literature of Terezin, the Nazi-run ghetto/concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia also known by its German name, Theresienstadt. Art, culture and sport -- at a concentration camp? "It sounds counterintuitive -- bordering on crazy -- but it's true," says Rachel Lithgow, executive director of the...

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Pucker Up

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Rivka Tal

Even a die-hard diet soda addict like me often longs for something different on sweltering summer days. Old-Fashioned Lemonade (Pareve) 8 lemons 1 and 1/4 to 1 and 1/2 cups sugar 2 quarts water 2 trays ice cubes 15 sprigs of mint (optional) Wash lemons. Cut into very thin slices and remove seeds. Place in a large bowl. Cover with...

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Why Not Just Eat Dessert First?

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Eileen Goltz, Jewish Exponent Feature

I am a huge fan of dessert. In fact, if given the choice, I'd eat it first. But while baking is my typical modus operandi, when the temperature heads toward the thermonuclear zone, my feelings lean less toward baking and more toward how cold can I make dessert? Take the quaintly named icebox cake. For those of us not born...