There’s No Place like Home – For Tourism

For the thousands of visitors who flock to Israel from around the world, a new tourist attraction is making its way to the top of the “must-see” list. Women and Tales in Jerusalem offers...

Chestnut Soup

6 tablespoons canola oil 5 potatoes, peeled and cubed 4 carrots, peeled and sliced 2 leeks, sliced 4 white onions, chopped 2 stalks celery, chopped 7 ounces (200g) vacuum-packed peeled chestnuts 3 tablespoons tomato paste 4 tablespoons honey ¼ cup brandy 1 teaspoon salt pinch...

Cinnamon Buns

Dough 1 tablespoon active dry yeast 1 cup warm water 1 cup plus 1 teaspoon sugar, divided 1 cup oil 2 eggs ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup orange juice 8 cups flour Filling ¾ cup sugar ¾ cup brown sugar 2 tablespoons cinnamonGlaze 1 cup confectioners’ sugar ¼...

Strawberry Smoothie

16 ounces frozen strawberries 1 cup orange juice 5 tablespoons powdered sugar 2 tablespoons vanilla pudding mix 2½ cups water Blend all ingredients until smooth. Yield: 8 small drinks Dipping the rim of each glass into lemon juice and then...

The Caretaker // I was always there for my father

I was my parents’ caretaker from an early age. It was obvious to me that they were suffering and needed a great deal of care. (So did I, but we won’t go into that...

Poland and the Holocaust // A Never-Ending Controversy?

The Book that started it all “One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half.” Those were the opening words of the book Neighbors, by Jan T. Gross,...

Phantom Baby // My next-door neighbor didn’t have any children. Or did she?

Ifirst met Goldie Wolner when she knocked on my door to welcome me to the block. I had a screaming baby in one arm and my toddler in the other. “Hi!” she said with a...

On The Ground In Jewish Georgia // A traveler to Tbilisi visits a historic...

Imagine a small Eurasian country, finally free after seven decades of Soviet domination, now besieged, at times, by larger aggressive neighbors. Imagine a small multicultural country surrounded by Muslim fundamentalists and Islamist republics. Imagine...

3 Big Fibs // The Nunes memo goes nowhere. But neither do other political...

The first week of February 2018 was a tough time for the truth. The seeds of three big fibs were sown among the GOP—the Gullible Old People—who make up a slim majority of Trump’s...

Spiritual Terrorism // When a couple of teenaged Arabs forced two 19- year-old chasidic...

One of the great paradoxes of life in Eretz Yisrael these days is that the drama of the Jewish galus is unfolding there like nowhere in the Diaspora. Jews are tragically being targeted in...