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SD school district’s Jewish leader has big-picture vision for public education
September 2015
- Why is this chef opening a kosher Israeli restaurant in LA right now?How do you explain Malka, the new kosher Israeli restaurant in Beverly Hills? I’m not talking about the food — I haven’t eaten there yet — I’m talking about the fact that it’s opening at all. Why would Eyal Shani — many of whose restaurants worldwide have faced protests, vandalism and physical attacks — dare to... […]
- An unvarnished look at Polish Hasidic life before the Holocaust In the decades before the Holocaust, Warsaw still teemed with Hasidim. Muranowska Street was virtually lined with shtiblekh (prayer and study houses), each with its own dynastic affiliation. But one day, a young man established a new shop on the street and brazenly kept it open on the Sabbath. Modernity had arrived. Some Hasidim didn’t... […]