7 haiku for Parsha Shemini by Rick Lupert (Rejoice, there is no rice that is forbidden!)
Rick Lupert
April 21, 2017
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rice
Rice and beans for Ashkenazi Jews on Passover?
Jared Sichel
April 13, 2016
Seder tables in Conservative Jewish homes may look different this Passover, and it’s not because of a new popular cookbook or changes to the haggadah.
Rabbis expand the Passover menu — but will Conservative Jews bite?
Jewish Journal
April 12, 2016
On Passover, Lynne Sandler will be passing on the beans and rice.
Sen. Robert Menendez’s rock star moment at AIPAC
Jewish Journal
March 3, 2015
Sen. Robert Menendez hands down got the most enthusiastic reception of any speaker so far at AIPAC’s annual conference.
Letters to the Editor: Settlements, Rice, Jewlicious, Secularism
Jewish Journal
March 28, 2013
David Suissa has been writing a brilliant monologue, telling Los Angeles Jews that Israel’s settlements are legal and Israel’s enemies are so very afraid. The problem with his monologue is that it will convince no one who is not already convinced.
Iran shrugs off latest U.S. sanctions, trade suffers
Jewish Journal
February 7, 2012
Iran castigated its U.S. adversary on Tuesday over new financial measures to disrupt Iranian commerce, and a default on payment for rice purchases highlighted the encroachment of sanctions on the staples of everyday life.
Rice, Powell and Albright: Friends in ‘Retirement’
Susan Freudenheim
March 2, 2011
Revolutions spreading through the Middle East added timeliness and weight to the convening of three former secretaries of state by American Jewish University (AJU) on Monday evening, Feb. 28, at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk. Madeleine Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, all active authors and advocates on the international scene, joined AJU President Robert Wexler onstage to agree on just about everything, and bicker over only a few matters.
Political realities may doom Olmert’s peace push
Leslie Susser
September 3, 2008
Although the Palestinians say wide gaps remain, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Olmert reportedly agreed in talks Sunday to make every effort to wrap up a full-fledged peace agreement by the end of the year. But both sides are skeptical.
Atoning for the sin of rushing dinner to get to Kol Nidre
Linda Morel
September 28, 2006
Make ahead recipes for Yom Kippur.
British theater group Stan’s Cafe uses piles of rice to bring statistics to life
Sarah Price Brown
September 21, 2006
Upon entering the museum, visitors will receive a grain of rice, representing themselves. Then, they will walk into a room filled with 300 million grains of rice – one for every person in the United States. The rice will be divided into piles, each one illustrating a statistic, such as the number of people who have walked on the moon or the millions of immigrants who passed through Ellis Island. One grain of rice will stand for one person.
And there it will be, among all the piles: a large mound with 6 million pieces, representing each individual Jewish life lost in the Holocaust.
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