How to find the essence of the holiday…fast. I was raised in a conservative Jewish family. Traditions were upheld and formed the foundation of our Jewish upbringing. I remember with great fondness driving south on Route 1 to my aunt’s home for Passover seder every year when I was a kid. My mother’s family was [...]
By Jennifer Felicia Abadi With the majority of Jews in the United States being of Ashkenazic or Eastern European descent, there is a specific interest in the ways that Sephardic Jews (those descending from Spain) and Middle Eastern Jews (those with a long history in the Middle East and not necessarily with a Spanish past) [...]
Joan Nathan’s French Seder By Beth S. Buxbaum An award-winning cookbook author, columnist and TV personality and producer, Joan Nathan has stories to tell and recipes to share. Her latest cookbook, Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France (Alfred A. Knopf), is Joan’s culinary adventure through both that country’s big cities [...]
Listen To These Sounds Of Summer
Regarded as the founding father of Rock & Roll, Doc Pomus wrote nearly 500 songs for artists such as Ray Charles and B.B. King. Pomus has been elected to the Rock & Roll, Songwriters, and Blues Hall of Fame. Check out these classics: Little Sister by Elvis Presley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBS2NcFJBaE Save The Last Dance For Me [...]
The game of basketball was invented in 1891 by a minister, James Naismith, who believed that it would promote “muscular Christianity.” That game would be unrecognizable today with its peach baskets, players passing the ball but never dribbling (a minor adjustment never envisioned by Naismith) and final scores like 5-4. It wasn’t until Jewish immigrants [...]
You say macaron, I say macaroon
If you live in NYC you had the opportunity to taste a French macaron (as they say it) free on French Macaron Day, initiated here on Sunday March 20 by Francois Payard, one of the foremost émigré chocolatiers from the motherland. In a world where a single one of these cookies costs between $2 and [...]
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