Just for your information: [The late Tom Anderson, the family doctor in (Camden) this little farm town in northwestern Indiana]...He began seeing strange rashes on his patients, starting more than a year ago. They began as innocuous bumps — “pimples from hell,� he called them — and quickly b...

From The Jerusalem Post: Widespread assimilation is the greatest threat to Jewish existence in Europe, the continent’s top rabbis concluded at their meeting in Paris last week, calling for a return to traditional Jewish family values and major rabbinical intervention. On the opposite side of t...

Found here at Eric Asimov's blog on dining & wine at the...da-tum!, New York Times, promoting "Pork Roast and Riesling": March 5, 2009 7:59 pm How does pork work with the Jewish thing?— Peter 3. March 5, 2009 8:02 pm Sorry, that might haved looked rude. The reason I ask is I have some good Jewish ...

So why indeed is this night different from all other nights? That, of course, is the prototypical question regarding Passover, but given the complexity of the holiday and its preparations and observance, there are countless other questions that even the most sophisticated and learned Jews might have...

This is a so-so "kosher" story. See this? It's called "kosher salt" and that's because, in the old days, okay, when I was younger in the 1950s, my mother, along with all Jewish housewives who kept kosher at home, would kasher the meat/chickens we purchased as the slaughterhouse and it needed to be l...

Did you think only Jews use kosher salt? Obviously not. Most of us know that kosher salt is a specific type of salt, more coarse than table salt. We also know that it’s called kosher salt because its used in the koshering process. Well, one Christian barber thinks enough is enough. Christians shou...

So in case you missed the news, the Dow dropped below 7K today and hit a 12-year low. That doesn’t really have much to do with Azeda Booth other than that it is during crazy times like this that taking some time to get lost in music can be especially therapeutic. You probably have a favorite a...

Warning: ranting ahead....I'm still too pissed off to write coherently about this but I'll try....Da Wife and I went out to Manhattan last night to catch a bite and a comedy show. We picked a few places but ended up parking far from them.So we popped into Mike's Bistro on 72nd Street. Our initial im...

It’s like a religious ritual: before each meal at my mother in law’s house, we act out the same scene. We all stand around the table, goggle eyed and groaning at the sight, and Laura worriedly hunches her shoulders and states, “I don’t think there will be enough food.â€� She’s right: t...

The current titleholder is Gimmee Jimmy's in Montclair, New Jersey, which uses real cake icing rather than the thin, diamond-hard drizzle of shellac so familiar to diner and ethnic bakery patrons across the tri-state area.  Repeat 'tri-state area' in a Dr. Doofenshmirtz voice if yo...