http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php en nrubin@jewishtimes.com Copyright 2012 2012-02-10T19:04:19+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/chefs_best_recipes/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/chefs_best_recipes/#When:14:42:36Z Contrary to popular belief, Israelis can’t claim falafel and hummus. In spite of their appearance on nearly every street corner in the Jewish state, both foods originated in Egypt. This brief history lesson kicked off a culinary lesson by Israeli chef Yossi Bendayan at a cooking demonstration. “Jews from all over the world came to Israel and brought… SourceBook 2009-09-25T14:42:36+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/best_of_getrude_berg/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/best_of_getrude_berg/#When:14:31:00Z The book is titled “Something on My Own, Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929-1956” by Glenn D. Smith Jr. (Syracuse University Press). In this 225-page hardcover, Mr. Smith examines Gertrude Berg, a remarkable figure in American life during the last century. A pioneer in radio and later in television, Ms. Berg successfully portrayed “Molly Goldberg” in both… SourceBook 2009-09-18T14:31:00+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/how_to_be_happy/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/how_to_be_happy/#When:13:46:37Z Even though most happiness guides say that they cannot simply “give recipes for how to be happy,” most offer steps toward a well-lived life. Rabbi Abraham Twerski offers 10: Be humble, compassionate, patient, open to change, choose wisely, make the most of all situations, improve yourself, have perspective, purpose and search for truth. Dr. Dennis Prager… SourceBook 2009-09-11T13:46:37+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/america_goes_kosher/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/america_goes_kosher/#When:13:41:28Z If we really are what we eat, then we are a strange bunch of folks after all. That’s the diagnosis from journalist and author Frederick Kaufman. In his gastronomic exploration “A Short History of the American Stomach” (Harcourt), he starts with the Puritans—who seemed to like fasting as much as buckled headwear—moves on to the “kosherization of America”.… SourceBook 2009-09-04T13:41:28+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/coping_with_celiac_disease/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/coping_with_celiac_disease/#When:13:26:02Z Rabbi Marvin Hier fondly recalls bakery-fresh buns and muffins in his lunch when he attended yeshiva. He also admits to a penchant for challah. “I didn’t just nosh on a piece of challah. I could have, on Friday and Shabbos, two slices, three slices of challah at the same meal. And the same with bagels,” he said. … SourceBook 2009-08-28T13:26:02+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/divestment_demands/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/divestment_demands/#When:13:27:54Z In preparation for worldwide Israel Apartheid Week, students from Berkeley to New Brunswick to New York were gearing up for the “Divest from Israel” campaign. But while the perennially photogenic campus Israel divestment movement has garnered a firestorm of media coverage and induced much hand-wringing in the Jewish community, divestment demands have had little effect on American… SourceBook 2009-08-21T13:27:54+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/kvetch_time/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/kvetch_time/#When:13:10:14Z It’s official: I was born into the wrong culture. As someone whose coat of arms would have to carry the words “chronically cranky,” I’ve always been out of step with the optimistic nature of American culture. After reading “Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods” by Michael Wex (St. Martin’s Press), I… SourceBook 2009-08-14T13:10:14+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/high_on_high_tech/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/high_on_high_tech/#When:12:48:50Z American venture capitalist David Anthony has $125 million in capital under his management, and more than $80 million of that is invested in start-up technology companies in Israel. Mr. Anthony, the managing partner of New York-based venture-capital fund 21 Ventures, said that Israel is “the single best place in the world to invest in technology ventures.” Mr.… SourceBook 2009-08-07T12:48:50+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/aids_breakthrough/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/aids_breakthrough/#When:15:03:55Z What a difference a decade makes. When Dr. Daniel Halperin first publicly made his case that male circumcision was a huge factor in combating the spread of HIV and AIDS, he was subjected to bitter ridicule. “Seven years ago, I gave a talk here about this and they said, ‘Get this guy to Langley Porter,’” he said, referring… SourceBook 2009-07-31T15:03:55+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/exotic_kosher/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/exotic_kosher/#When:15:01:33Z I drew the line at locusts. I didn’t care how cool it was that they were kosher, or that some rabbis in Algeria and Morocco said they are a delicacy. I wasn’t going to eat a locust. Locusts are bugs. I don’t eat bugs. Locust—dried, fried and certified—was the last item on the menu at The Prime Grill… SourceBook 2009-07-24T15:01:33+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/headline_hunter/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/headline_hunter/#When:14:57:51Z Journalist Ilana Dayan chuckled when others compare her long-running Israeli TV news magazine, “Udva,” to “60 Minutes.” It’s a nice compliment, but not entirely accurate. For starters, she estimated the budget for a single Mike Wallace “gotcha” segment would bankroll her entire show for a year. On the other hand, like the venerable CBS program, Ms. Dayan’s show… SourceBook 2009-07-17T14:57:51+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/tweens_and_teens/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/tweens_and_teens/#When:15:55:30Z The teenage years are a time of questioning: Who am I? What is my spiritual path? What is my relationship to my country and the world? Three recent novels for tweens and teens explore different aspects of those questions. They are: “A Bottle in the Gaza Sea” by Valerie Zenatti (Bloomsbury), “The Truth About My Bat Mitzvah” by… SourceBook 2009-07-10T15:55:30+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/thorny_questions/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/thorny_questions/#When:14:47:59Z By this point, Matisyahu, the Chasidic reggae artist, needs little introduction. His first album, “Live at Stubb’s,” sold more than 500,000 copies. His second, “Youth,” topped online music vendor iTunes’ album chart within a week of its release. His lanky figure - black hat, beard and all - has appeared everywhere from Rolling Stone to the staid Wall… SourceBook 2009-07-03T14:47:59+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/shifting_attitudes/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/shifting_attitudes/#When:14:45:38Z David Weiner, a 32-year-old social studies curriculum publisher from Los Angeles, went on an unlikely pairing of back-to-back missions to Israel. His first week in Israel, he and a mini-bus full of peers in their 20s and 30s visited recipients of the New Israel Fund, a progressive social justice organization. They met a man who had built… SourceBook 2009-06-26T14:45:38+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/dating_mating/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/dating_mating/#When:14:34:34Z
]]>I spent the better part of my single adult life in hot pursuit of the quintessential nebbish. My friends couldn’t understand it. Why was I, a seemingly somewhat hip and not altogether bad-looking woman with a wicked wit and sharp tongue, chasing a host of would-be Woody Allens? Skinny? Check. Unnaturally attached to mom? Check. Never lettered… SourceBook 2009-06-19T14:34:34+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/coping_with_canavan_disease/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/coping_with_canavan_disease/#When:14:33:06Z The first thing you notice about Brooklyn Van Skoyck is how beautiful her eyes are. The second thing you notice is how loved the 4-year-old is. She sits in her wheelchair at the kitchen table of her grandparents’ home. Brooklyn’s parents, Elizabeth and Frank Van Skoyck, sit down to tell their family’s story as their almost 3-year-old… SourceBook 2009-06-12T14:33:06+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/up_close_with_bob_saget/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/up_close_with_bob_saget/#When:14:24:32Z There’s the Bob Saget of “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” And then there’s the other one. One was the king of family-friendly television comedy in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. The other is the one that’s a stand-up comic and, when you attend a performance, you’ll definitely want to leave the kiddies at home. “I… SourceBook 2009-06-05T14:24:32+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/the_terrible_teens/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/the_terrible_teens/#When:14:19:00Z One theme seems common to most works, fiction and nonfiction, dealing with teenagers: Parents wonder where their cute, loving, charming young children have gone and who are the argumentative, sullen strangers who replaced them. The clash between generations can be difficult and the process is even more fraught with problems when the family is Jewish. Joanne… SourceBook 2009-05-29T14:19:00+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/shavuot_soups/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/shavuot_soups/#When:14:04:30Z Shavuot celebrations often center around brunch, where bagels and lox grab the attention. Those who branch out typically gravitate to blintzes and kugels. But in the “old country,” Shavuot meals often started with cold, creamy soups, an appetizer that has all but disappeared in today’s grab-and-go world. While refrigerated soup sounds like an oxymoron, in the days before… SourceBook 2009-05-22T14:04:30+00:00 http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/baby_on_board/ http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/resource_guide_article/jt/sourcebook/baby_on_board/#When:13:57:53Z Approximately one in every five Ashkenazi Jews is a carrier for one of 10 debilitating genetic disorders. The knowledge base in genetics and genetic technology has grown exponentially in last few years, and it is now possible to screen for 10 disorders that occur with higher frequency in the Ashkenazi Jewish community. Almost all segments of the Jewish… SourceBook 2009-05-15T13:57:53+00:00