Category Archives: Arts & Culture

IN GOOD TASTE: Sticking your neck out

TOFFEE TURTLE BARS By DAWN LaROCHELLE When you have three baseball-obsessed sons, you learn a lot about pre-game superstitions and rituals. Don’t step on the foul line coming on and off the field. Tap the bat on the plate before … Continue reading

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IN GOOD TASTE: Got any real bread for this peanut butter?

By DAWN LaROCHELLE There is nothing quite so humbling as having your six-year-old son march into your Zagat-rated restaurant, through a crowded dining room, with a jar of peanut butter and loudly demand to know if there is any “real” … Continue reading

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God is in the notes

Notes on three Tanglewood concerts By JIM CLEVENSON Emotional and “spiritual” experiences abound this summer, and they’re not just in shul. Trips to Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in Lenox, Mass., have provided moments of elation, peace, angst, … Continue reading

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IN GOOD TASTE: Where can I get a good egg cream?

IN BROOKLYN IN THE ’50s “a candy store minus an egg cream…was as difficult to conceive as the Earth without gravity.” (Photo by Greg Nesbit) By DAWN LaROCHELLE Rabbi Mat, my spiritual mentor and my sons’ sondek, has told me … Continue reading

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‘Celebrating Yiddish’ concert featuring Cantor Shira Ginsburg is set for ‘The Linda, on June 5

Ne’imah Jewish Community Chorus will perform its 19th annual concert “Celebrating Yiddish” at 7:30 p.m., Sunday, June 5, at the Linda Norris Auditorium, WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio, 318 Central Ave. Ne’imah’s guest performer will be Cantor Shira Ginsburg (left) from … Continue reading

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Part II of Community of Jewish Writers series scheduled for Ohav Shalom June 2

The second presentation of the second annual Community of Jewish Writers series willbe held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 2, at Ohav Shalom Synagogue, 113 New Krumkill Rd., Albany. The series was organized by Leslie Neustadt (left), a retired … Continue reading

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WAMC, J Street to sponsor ‘Budrus’ screening at The Linda on May 22

WAMC and the local J Street chapter will sponsor the screening of “Budrus,” at 7 p.m., Sunday, May 22, at The Linda, 339 Central Ave. A panel discussion will follow the film presentation. “Budrus,” (documentary, USA, 2009, 70-min.), follows a … Continue reading

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‘Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong’

Book Review By JONATHAN KIRSCH The Jewish Journal “Writers don’t die of typhus,” goes one of my favorite quotations from the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer. “They die of typos.” Alina Tugend (left), however, is one writer who sees errors … Continue reading

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IN GOOD TASTE: A simple, elegant and delicious Mother’s Day entrée

MISO-MARINATED GRILLED SALMON WITH WASABI BUTTER (Photo by Gregory Nesbit) “What would one know of life as it should be lived or nights as they should be spent apart from meals?” –James and Kay Salter, Life is Meals: A Food … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan: Tangled up in (Israeli) Jews

By ALAN D. ABBEY JERUSALEM (JTA)–With the greatest Jewish rock and roller of all time, Bob “You can call me Zimmy” Dylan, making his return to Israel after nearly two decades, the question arises: Will the crowd be bored? Dylan, … Continue reading

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