Chaim Amalek emails: "When Israeli women (the sane, non-haredi ones) turn 18, they go into the Army, where they do situps, pullups, and otherwise tighten their young bodies. When American women turn 18, they go off to college and promptly gain 15 pound of fat and (often) bad attitudes that they...

One economist says the relative calm is because almost everyone is hurt. When everyone suffers a setback, you don’t feel as bad about your setback. Dennis Prager took the media to task for focusing on the relative casualties in the fight between Israel and Hamas. So Israel has only lost four p...

High resolution map of the Gaza area. Click on the image for a close-up view. (University of Texas) Read this, and then feel free to come back and talk to me about the "disproportionate" Israel response to over 10,000 rockets, mortars and terror incursions that have gone largely under and just plain...

Seems there’s a bit of controversy brewing around Steven Galloway’s novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, which was published a few months back by Knopf Canada. (Read Q&Q’s review here.) According to the CBC, the real-life cellist Vedran Smailovic, who served as the inspiration for th...

Despite some initial misgivings, we all survived the AIDS/LifeCycle. Every last member of Team Mortar (and honorary guests). Seven strong and only one flat tire, one collapsed tent, two cases of butt rash, five margaritas (come on, did you really think we'd last the whole week dry?), one mortifying ...

Caroline Glick writes:   Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza was presented to the world as a strategic bid to enhance prospects for peace between the Palestinians and Israel. Proponents of the move argued that removing all Israeli civilians and military personnel from Gaza would take away ...

From its opening scene all the way through to the picturesque end, this is a sweet humane story. I kept fearing that things would get ugly but they didn’t. Sure there was pain, but this movie is about people who love each other. Every scene builds to the next and the film ends in a satisfying ...

A good mortar and pestle are not only attractive additions to a kitchen, they can also change your relationship to spice grinding. Dorie Greenspan recently got a granite mortar and pestle, and she’s a happy convert: At last, after so many years in the kitchen, I found a proper mortar and pestl...

Filed under: Recipes, Fruit, Holidays, Passover Yesterday, I asked you guys for some help with a savory matzo kugel (thanks to all who commented and pointed me in the direction of recipes, I do appreciate the help). I want to return the favor by offering one of my very favorite Passover recipes, for...

Author: Tamar Fox Posted to Jewcy: April 09, 2008 2:47 pm===== Yes, you can have you seder catered, but that’s no fun at all. If you don’t feel up to making a brisket and matzah ball soup for 30, at least try making your own charoset—it’s fun, easy, really yummy, and there are tons of differ...