Articles from the May 6, 2016 edition
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Remembering my mother, Lena Sami
By Renee Sami Born in New York on a cold winter's night by candlelight, Lena Sami was a beaut extraordinaire. She was the ideal. Whenever she went out, she was always complimented on her style, her...
Meet the new superfood-sesame
ISRAEL21c-Shafrir Levi's baby boy loves to slurp spoonsful of bananas, pears and apples mashed with pure sesame-seed paste, known as tahina in Israel and tahini most other places. The baby's affinity...
Rock legend Phil Lesh gathers musician friends for a Grateful Dead Passover
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (JTA)-"Why can't we eat veggie burritos tonight? Will I be miracled? Will they play 'The Wheel?' Will Phil sing?" These four additional questions were asked at a Passover seder...
Weekly roundup of world briefs from JTA
Trump says he will try to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace deal (JTA)—Saying he’d “never met a person from Israel that didn’t want to make that deal,” Donald Trump said if elected president he plans to try to broker an Israeli-Palestinian peace tre...
Israeli chutzpah lies at the heart of America's favorite coconut drink
ISRAEL21c-Two guys walk into a New York City bar in 2003 and meet a couple of Brazilian women. "What do you miss most from home?" the men ask. "Agua de coco," the women answer. Coconut water. In...
Good Reads
"Protecting Paige," by Deby Eisenberg Retracing events from the 1915 Eastland disaster on the Chicago River to the Holocaust and beyond, "Protecting Paige" is a multi-layered historical novel driven b...