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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
Posted in Arts & Culture, Blog, Recipes
Tagged cup, mosaic tiles, small business owner, spray, wade boggs
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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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Tagged dan dan mian, mian, mini marshmallows, peanut, peanut butter sandwiches
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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
Posted in Arts & Culture
Tagged boston symphony orchestra, brahms violin concerto, jaap van zweden, music, width
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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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Tagged CHOCOLATE, chocolate ganache, miniature broom, Red, shomer shabbos
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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
Posted in Arts & Culture, Blog, Organizations, Religion & Philosophy
Tagged Capital District, Central Ave, concert, Debbie Friedman, East End, hebrew union college, imah, israeli composers, Judith Ginsburg, Linda Norris Auditorium, New York, New York City, Shira Ginsburg, singer song writer, TROY
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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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Tagged Albany, Author, brecht forum, Brooklyn, Carol Bluestein, Islands, Israel, Jan Tramontano, Jay Wenk, latin american literature, Linda Sonia Miller, Manhattan, New York, New York City, Poland, Romania, Sandra Gardner, series, Shalom, Shalom Synagogue, Susan Nowogrodzki, Trina Porte, TROY, United States, Wendy Bates
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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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Tagged America, Barbara Dworkin, Bloch, brit tzedek, Capital District, Central Ave, College, cornell university ithaca, Dr. Ethan Bloch, Hudson, Israel, Ithaca, J Street, Jessica Devaney, jewish theological seminary, Linda, Los Angeles, Middle East, Ore., panel, Portland, Rabbi David Gordis, Shalom, Tel Aviv, USA
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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
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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Tagged Andrew, DAWN LaROCHELLE, DAWN ROCHELLE
You, family, family dinner table, food, Gregory Nesbit, James, Jim, Kay, Mohammed, Nick, Perigee, Peter, S MY SON, Salmon, Scott, twinkle little star, twinkle twinkle little star
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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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Tagged Abe, Abraham, Alan Abbey, alan d abbey, ALAN D. ABBEY JERUSALEM, ALAN D. ABBEY
JERUSALEM, Asia, Aviv, aviv gefen, Bob, Bryan Ferry, Chances, China, Don, Dylan, Elton John, God, Harvey Brooks, Hava Negiliah, Israel, Jacob, Japan, Jerusalem, Justin Bieber, Leonard Cohen, Man, Maureen Dowd, Memphis, Paul McCartney, Rain, Sheryl, Taiwan, Utah, Vietnam
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