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Hamantaschen!!
Dining@Large1) Poppy Seed2) Everything elseThe NY Times has a great piece today on hamantaschen, from Tel Aviv to Paris.“I put out only a few humantashen the weeks before Purim,” said Florence Kahn, owner of a celebrated Eastern European bakery in......Tags: Just Born, Inc.
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Bad hat, good cookie
Haman, legend has it, was a bad guy who wore a bad hat. He is remembered and reviled on the holiday Purim in story, song and snack. Rare is the leader — good or bad — who has a pastry named for his hat.
Haman's crime (plotting to do in...Tags: Crimes, Recipes, Crime, Law and Justice, Judaism, Holidays
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Does Purim encourage binge drinking among young Jews?
The Religion WorldToday is the Jewish observance of Purim, which commemorates the triumph over Haman, the Persian ruler who plotted the extinction of Jewish people in his empire. Meredith A. Bennett-Smith writes for Religion News Service about concerns that the holiday... -
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Canada, UAE clash over mystery Mabhouh assassin
Babylon & BeyondThere is a diplomatic storm brewing between Canada and the United Arab Emirates, and the latest twist involves a mystery assassin. On Tuesday, Dubai's chief of police, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan, slammed Canadian authorities for allegedly dragging their feet... -
Theater review: 'In Mother Words' at Geffen Playhouse
Culture MonsterFor all the changing fads surrounding motherhood, not much has altered the basic facts of labor (more excruciating than any man can imagine), child-rearing (rewarding, if you have any hair left) and empty-nest syndrome (heart-wrenching, no matter how well... -
Celebrating Purim and Esther, the vegetarian queen
Daily DishCelebrating Purim and Esther, the vegetarian Queen... -
Critic's Notebook: Despite 'Esther,' New York City Opera rises from the ashes
Culture MonsterReporting from New York. Things are finally looking up for New York City Opera. The once-feisty alternative to its imposing Lincoln Center neighbor, the Metropolitan Opera, has an acoustically improved home, is selling tickets and getting very good... -
Elliott Yamin's earthquake scare in Chile: In his own words
Idol TrackerLike many "American Idol" loyalists (and social networking junkies), we were tuned into Twitter during the early morning hours of February 27 when we learned that Season 5's Elliott Yamin had experienced the Chilean earthquake firsthand. Yamin was... -
Prosecutors highlight identity theft at 'Craigslist killer' trial
As the capital murder trial of the Ohio man accused of murdering three men after luring them in Craigslist ads with the promise of work in 2011 entered its second day Tuesday, the jury had already heard two stark descriptions of the defendant....
Tags: Lawyers, Theft, Richard J. Beasley, Criminals, Craigslist, Inc.
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Judge refuses to dismiss charges in WikiLeaks case
FT. MEADE, Md. -- A military judge refused Tuesday to dismiss the charges against the Army private accused of treason for providing reams of government secrets to WikiLeaks, saying numerous pretrial delays were necessary because of the “voluminous...
Tags: Iraq, FBI, U.S. Department of State, Iraq War (2003-2011), Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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One year later, candlelight vigils for Trayvon Martin
It rained in Sanford, Fla., on Tuesday, just like it did exactly a year ago when Trayvon Martin died there. The shooting death of an unarmed black 17-year-old at the hands of a part-white, part-Peruvian neighborhood watch volunteer in a gated...
Tags: Interior Policy, Craigslist, Inc., Jamie Foxx, BP Plc, Personal Weapon Control
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20 years ago, a bomb killed six people at the World Trade Center
Remember this date: Feb. 26, 1993. Twenty years ago on Tuesday, six people died in a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in New York. Anniversaries are important, for they help set tragedies apart. The philosopher Walter Benjamin once said what...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Interior Policy, Explosions, Andrew Cuomo, Emergency Incidents
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