Chavie Lieber, JTA
Fifth Question: Is quinoa kosher for Passover, or not?
Chavie Lieber, JTAMar 21, 2013
PASSOVER EDITION SECTION C PAGE 3 NEW YORK — On any given day, a wind might blow through the farmlands of South America, pick up an errant grain of barley and...
Von Furstenberg: Holocaust museum supporter
Chavie Lieber, JTAMar 07, 2013
NEW YORK Diane von Furstenberg takes a seat at her long, farm table-inspired desk inside her office on the fifth floor in this citys Meatpacking District. The...
Skater glides to gold
Chavie Lieber, JTAFeb 21, 2013
NEW YORK — With consecutive quadruple jumps at the US Figure Skating Championships, Max Aaron launched himself not only to a gold medal and a national championship....
Itzhak Perlman and the cantor
Chavie Lieber, JTAFeb 07, 2013
NEW YORK Who knew the man behind the Brooklyn homecomings of Jay-Z and Barbra Streisand had a thing for heimische melodies? Bruce Ratner, the developer and majority...
Film chronicles Hava Nagila’s journey from shtetl to cliche
Chavie Lieber, JTAJan 10, 2013
NEW YORK Youre at a wedding or Bar Mitzvah, mingling at the bar or catching up with a distant relative, when you hear it the opening notes of […]
Jewish deadheads see parallels between Judaism and ‘Deadism’
Chavie Lieber, JTADec 06, 2012
CHANUKAH EDITIONSECTION A PAGE 23 FALLS VILLAGE, Conn. As a gentle snow fell on the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center last Friday evening, Nov. 30, some 85...
Kosher cheese firm vows to carry on, post-Sandy
Chavie Lieber, JTANov 22, 2012
JERSEY CITY, NJ A flooded warehouse, decomposed wall beams, sodden sheetrock, crumbling brick walls, a fried electrical system and about $2 million worth of rotten...
Etrog farm
Chavie Lieber, JTASep 27, 2012
SCOTTSDALE Matt Bycer is like any other 33-year-old attorney who wakes up at the crack of dawn to exercise. Except that rather than sweating to a P90X regimen, Bycer,...