Photo: Mitchell Schwartz, left, and Ali Marpet are two of the NFL’s few Jewish players. Here’s a football bet you probably could’ve gotten long odds on before the season started: each Super Bowl team having a Jewish offensive lineman. Both are standout players, but only one — Ali Marpet, a sixth-year pro for the…
Photo: Hayle Meyerhoff. Courtesy Emily Williams Avodah is a national network of Jewish leaders working to fight domestic poverty and promote social justice. In addition to service at leading nonprofits, participants in their Jewish Service Corps live together as a community and engage in weekly educational programs to deepen their understanding of domestic poverty,…
JScreen, a national nonprofit public health initiative dedicated to preventing genetic diseases, announced plans for the annual Jewish Genetic Screening Awareness Week (JGSAW), taking place February 1-5, 2021. Started last year and with organizational partners across the country, JGSAW will focus on powerful events, timely information and resources to help raise awareness about the…
Sometimes the easiest suppers are the tastiest ones. This chicken takes minutes to prepare, you can put it your oven and forget about it for five hours, and come home to a delicious, moist, flavorful roasted chicken. Recipe By Chayie Schlisselfeld for Kosher.com Ingredients: 1 whole chicken 1 tablespoon salt 1 tablespoon paprika 1…
In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is holding a special virtual commemoration with Holocaust survivors and leaders from the United States and Europe on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 10 a.m. PT. Eight decades after the Holocaust began, people worldwide will pause on the anniversary of the liberation…
Andrea Stolowitz’s great-grandfather kept a journal for his descendants after escaping to New York City in 1939 as a German Jew. Using her German-Jewish great-grandfather’s diary, Lacroute Playwright-in-Residence and three-time Oregon Book Award-winning playwright, Andrea created “The Berlin Diaries,” the autobiographical story of Andrea’s quest to untangle her family’s history. The record keeps as…
Photo: Photo taken when the Gloria Bacharach Judaica Gift Shop was named for her, at the behest of Max Birnbach, pictured to Gloria’s left, alongside Rabbi Daniel Isaak, now emeritus, of Neveh Shalom. “The gum. That gum and those kids.” Sue Axel was referring to the individually wrapped Bazooka chewing gum sold for decades…
Photo: Marion Wiesel with children from the Beit Tzipora Centers in Israel. In celebration of Marion Wiesel’s 90th birthday, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity (EWF) and Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) will hold a star-studded virtual event with a musical performance by Idan Raichel on January 27, 2021 at 7 pm EST. The celebration, on…
The love of food… This, in a nutshell, is what makes Chef Jon Wirtis, the Executive Chef and Director of Culinary Services at Cedar Sinai Park (CSP), excited to come to work every day. For Chef Jon, creating beautiful and delicious food is an act of love. It’s a way of bringing people together…
We all have nights when we come home after a not-so-great day and need to sit down to something as comforting as possible, as quickly as possible. This orzo is the answer. This is the creamiest, cheesiest orzo you can imagine, filled with tender mushrooms and baby spinach, that cooks up in a single pot…
