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… and expensive name: Manischewitz Fancy Cookies. During Passover of 1975, an attractive student waitress at the University of Connecticut Hillel named Gina (yeah, I wondered about the name, too) arranged…
… concept of freedom extends to rights for animals, plants and even ecos.ystems. How far does freedom go? Is "ecojustice" compatible with Jewish tradition? Embrace readings from www.coejl.org . – Michigan…
…Publisher's Letter Parting The Sea With Matzah A 11 right, admit it. When it comes to Jews and food, there is no better example of the unbreakable link between our culture, heritage, religion and…
… stom- achs than Passover. We don't need fancy demographic studies to tell us that listening to the story of our Exodus from Egypt at a seder (that is, when our mouths aren't full or we haven't collapsed…
… on the sofa from eating exhaustion) is the most popular exer- cise of Jewish expression — ranking even higher than lighting a chanukiah for the Festival of Lights. This night, this week, was different…
…, handed down from • generation to generation, connect us with our past, with warm memories and with a determination to pass them on to our own children and grandchildren. In addition to the lessons of…
… ... "Mom purchases 11/2 pounds of trout, 3 pounds of pickerel and 41/2 pounds of whitefish at a cost of $51 and spends two hours of direct labor grinding, boiling and cleaning up the mess. Mom's hourly rate…
… is $20. Her labor yields 27 pieces of gefilte fish. The cost per piece of.gefilte fish is $2.63. "Or, mom goes to Costco and buys two large cans of Rokeach Old Vienna Gefilte Fish at $6.89 each with a…
… yield of 28 pieces. The cost per piece of gefilte fish is 49 cents. Why does mom bother, especially when many of the guests • don't like gefilte fish and it ends up in the garbage anyway?" Because making…
… homemade gefilte fish isn't about dollars and cents. It's about passing along a tradition, a memory. Geopolitics . Aside from understanding and interpreting the map of the Middle East, then and now…