HOLLYWOOD (Press Release)– With Passover rapidly approaching, Jenny Engel and Heather Goldberg of Spork Foods have created a nutritious and delicious Pistachio and Cranberry Studded Matzo Brittle recipe. The talented pair bring a fresh perspective and an element of fun to preparing any type of vegan cuisine. Aside from owning a Los Angeles-based gourmet vegan […]
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) – After seven years of construction and an investment of $150 million, the only internationally branded luxury hotel in Jerusalem, Waldorf Astoria, has officially opened for business right before the Passover holiday. Welcoming its first international guests who reserved rooms for the April opening on Thursday, April 10, the Waldorf
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By Ken Stone SAN DIEGO (TOSD) — “Blackfish” may have moved viewers and supporters of banning orca shows at SeaWorld of San Diego, but it had no clout Tuesday in Sacramento. Assembly Bill 2140, which would have put limits on Shamu displays and halted the San Diego park’s captive breeding program, was tabled by the Assembly
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By Ryan Dawes NEW YORK — As the story goes, when the Jews of 17th-century Prague feared for their lives, their rabbi went down to the river where he collected clay and fashioned it into the shape of a man. It came alive, and the golem was born. But the rabbi’s creation was all too
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By Dmitriy Shapiro/JNS.org/Washington Jewish Week While the breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process grabs the latest headlines, a growing group of organizations is calling attention to what it believes to be a major obstacle in fostering understanding between Israelis and Palestinians: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near
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Travel and FoodEditor’s Note: Our correspondent from Mevasseret Zion, Israel, has been visiting the United States and occasionally blogging about what she sees. Here is a report from Richmond, Virginia. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson RICHMOND, Virginia — For me personally, the principal attraction of Richmond, Virginia is the presence there or in the vicinity of two first cousins
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra, (TICO), now celebrating its 40th year, has begun this milestone season by programming two outstanding concerts. The first, in mid-November, The Glory of Hungarian Music, included Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, #5 and #6, Bartok’s Hungarian Sketches, Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #3, Berlioz’ Rakotzy March and Dohnanyi’s Variations
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NEW YORK (Press Release)– No Place on Earth, a story of 38 Ukrainian Jews who hid in caves for two years to avoid detection by the Nazis, will be aired on the History Channel at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 26. This was the longest recorded sustained underground survival. Built upon interviews with the survivors, as
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Travel and FoodBy David Amos SAN DIEGO — In two concerts titled Americana, the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will present four of the many directions which American symphonic music took around the middle of the Twentieth Century. These four composers were masters of composition and orchestration; some are very popular today, and at least one of them
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Remember the wedding scene in Goodbye Columbus. It shows the ugliest side of Jewish nouveau riche, and got for Philip Roth the severe criticism of Jewish leaders for his exaggerations, or for revealing one of the embarrassing aspects of Jewish culture. Think of Ehud Olmert and a few other politicians,
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By Giora Bar-Sakai TEL AVIV –Spring is my favorite season: the weather turns warmer, flowers are blooming all around, the days are already longer and the sunsets are simply unbelievable. And one of the most vivid places to enjoy the spring is my city: Tel Aviv. Please allow me to share with you the top
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Middle East, Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–El Al Airlines has announced that during the Passover season, some of the special holiday dishes that will be served on the New York (JFK/Newark) route include sweet and sour chicken with a trio of roasted potatoes, braised beef short ribs with pomegranate and silan, spicy matbucha salad, caramelized onions and vegetables
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Editor’s Note: Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, one of San Diego Jewish World’s regular correspondents writing from Israel, is vacationing in San Diego, and she filed the following report By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson SAN DIEGO–Anyone who is invited to a rehearsal by an orchestra has to feel especially privileged, as I and my husband, Yigal, did Tuesday night, April 1. Conductors tend to be
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– JDate.com has launched its second annual Haggadah, available for the first time as a free download on iBooks. Why is this Haggadah different from all other Haggadahs? The interactive Haggadah (iHaggadah), out in time for Passover (April 14 to April 22), will bring humor and originality to the Seder, giving the
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