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BOSTON — Years ago, Nancy Steiner set out to make her family seder a bit more entertaining for her own young kids. She wrote a poem that became very popular among family and friends.
On This Night: The Steps of the Seder in Rhyme, Steiner’s first published children’s book, is an updated version of that poem with large format, brightly colored illustrations by Wendy Edelson that will appeal to religiously observant families.
Along with Lotsa Matzah, it’s one of two new Passover books for the youngest children to enliven the beloved holiday.
On This Night features lively rhymes that follow the 14 steps of the seder, with each section identified by its Hebrew name.
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NEW YORK — On any given day, a wind might blow through the farmlands of South America, pick up an errant grain of barley and deposit it nearby among the vast rows of cultivated quinoa. If that barley manages to make its way into a sifted batch of quinoa, and avoid detection during repackaging, it could wind up gracing your seder table on Passover night.
However dubious it might seem, the scenario is among the reasons that the world’s largest kosher certi...
TEL AVIV — Puffing on a cigarette, Amnon Tubi says he always knew what scientists only recently have proven about staying healthy.
“I knew that Mediterranean food is the best,” he said, surrounded by tables overflowing with tomatoes, cucumbers and oranges. “The legumes are healthy. There’s a lot of fiber.”
Tubi, 60, has worked in Tel Aviv’s crowded, open-air Carmel Market for four decades, peddling produce and fresh fish. He’s no doctor, but that won’t stop him from recommend...
S-E-T-T-E-E: The word is worth seven points. I put the tiles down on the board wistfully: If only I had an additional S (s-e-t-t-e-e-s). Then I’d rake in 50 points over and above the value of the letters — the regulation bonus for a “bingo” — for using all seven tiles in one turn.
Scrabble. It’s a worldwide phenomenon with a thousand clubs, millions of players and international tournaments around the globe. Ask any serious player at the Sam Orbaum Jerusalem Scrabble Club what word h...
BERLIN — A feature film about Israeli troops in Gaza won a top independent jury prize at the 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival.
“Rock the Casbah,” by Israeli director Yariv Horowitz, brought home the top prize from the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas. The prize was announced on Feb. 16, a day before the 11-day festival ended.
It was one of several films at the festival that dealt with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The jurors unanimously commended Horo...