This week’s cartoon … April 17/15
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This week’s cartoon … April 3/15
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Mystery photo … April 3/15
ORT Installation eve, 1983. (JWB fonds; JMABC L.14060) If you know someone in this photo, please help the JI fill the gaps of its predecessor’s (the Jewish Western Bulletin’s) collection at the Jewish Museum and Archives of B.C. by contacting…
Folk music in the Holy Land
The author enjoying a day of folk music from around the world at Israel’s Jacob’s Ladder festival. (photo from Miri Garaway) I have always been a folk music aficionado, so when I heard about the Jacob’s Ladder Music Festival in…
Cuban shul in distress
Rabbi Yacob Berezniak in Havana’s Agath Israel synagogue. (photo by Baila Lazarus) On a small side street in Old Havana, an innocuous sign on a decaying wall announces “Synagoga Adath Israel.” A few steps away, on Picota Street, an entrance…
Create your own clay camel
How fast time flies. Passover is almost here again, and it’s time to prepare a new tutorial, I said to my 7-year-old daughter while getting out a magic box with colorful modeling clay. At school, we are reading a lot…
Brief Kauai vacation tutorial
The path to Nounou Mountain is a gentle incline through a forest of magnificent Norfolk pine trees. (photo by Lauren Kramer) There were only a few items in my grocery basket so, when the cashier asked me for $100, I…
Israel issues travel warnings
A view of shore from a dive shop in Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt. (photo by B. Simpson via commons.wikimedia.org) During the upcoming school holidays of Passover, followed by the summer months, many Israelis travel abroad. Europe is only a few…
New Jewish journeys
The Jewish Heritage Travel tour to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia inclues a visit to the historic Trakai Castle, in Trakai, ancient capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. (photo from jhtravel.org) In August 2015, the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A…
Bold, new menus for Pesach
Paula Shoyer’s eggplant parmesan, featured in her latest cookbook, The New Passover Menu. (photo by Michael Bennett Kress) The New Passover Menu by Paula Shoyer (Sterling, 2014) emboldened me. It was the whole package: the full-color photos, the clear text (blue…
