For the Roasted Mushrooms: 1 lb. mixed mushrooms, baby bellas, shitakes and hen of the woods or beech 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoons balsamic vinegar 1 tablespoons minced garlic 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme 1-2 tablespoons flour 1/4c-1/2 cup red wine or broth Salt and black pepper, to taste 1/4 cup chopped flat leaf […]
Ingredients: 1 lb extra firm tofu 1/2 ripe Haas avocado 1 red pepper, cut into strips 1 small onion, sliced thin 4 ounces mushrooms, sliced thin minced garlic or sliced garlic skape vegetable oil for searing and frying 1 tablespoon mayonnaise mixed with ½ teaspoon of schug (a hot pepper condiment available at kosher and […]
Oh no! The sky is falling! The Jewish people are doomed! No, wait, that’s just the sound that the latest American Jewish population survey makes when it slams into the Jewish communal world. I wrote this column in the week following the publication of “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” the Pew Research Center’s survey […]
I watched my son’s little red Mazda dart around an SUV. My husband and I were following him up, carrying half of what he was planning to move into his dorm room. As we hit the open road, the distance between us increased until I realized that my son had speeded on ahead and out […]
In early September, I stood outside JCC Rockland and with a group of about 50 people spanning generations, remembered the 11 Israeli athletes who were murdered in the 1972 Munich Olympics. You could say it was an off year memorial, the 41st since Palestinian terrorists took the athletes hostage. It was small and simple, and […]
Corey Gradin has new lungs — and with them, a chance for a future. She received her lungs in late May in an operation that took place at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Who they belonged to, and how the family members decided to donate his or her organs to a dying 16-and-a-half year old, […]
Early in the summer, Rev. Weldon McWilliams IV along with 25 others, walked into Rockland Kosher Supermarket, tucked behind the intersection of Routes 59 and 306, and bought groceries. Not very remarkable. It is a grocery store, after all. But it’s a niche grocery store, a very large one that contains only kosher certified products. […]
The world is a really queer place. How else can you explain the idea that is gaining traction that Israel is using its favorable record on gay rights to mask abuses of occupation? But that is the argument of those who are touting pinkwashing. Promoted primarily by Sarah Schulman, a professor at the College of Staten […]
So much fuss over a matzah ball, nu? Well, not a matzah ball, but a knaidel. Or is it kneydl? Or knaydl? Or kneidel? Because when Arvind Mahankali, a 13-year-old from Queens, correctly spelled the word for a doughy dumpling that even the most unengaged of Jews have consumed, he unleashed an unabahsed frenzy of […]
The first time I davened at the Kotel, I was 16 and with a group of girls from my teen tour. Our leaders brought us to the last vestige of the Temple, the remaining western wall. The boys and men funneled down the path to the men’s side to do their thing and we were […]
