If you’re having your turkey spatchcocked in advance, move onto step 2 in the recipe.Ingredients:18-12 pound turkey10 garlic cloves, peeled and lightly crushed, more to taste1 branch fresh tarragon or thyme separated into sprigs, or ½ teaspoon...
By Margi Lenga Kahn, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 16, 2018
Many of you might ask, “Why change something that has worked so well year after year?” My answer to you and to my family: “If you don’t leave your comfort zone, you’ll never know what you might be missing!” This year I’m sticking with a...
BY BRADFORD SIWAK, Junior, Ladue Horton Watkins High School
• Published November 16, 2018
On Yom Kippur 5769 (2008 ), Rabbi Brigitte Rosenberg stood on United Hebrew’s bimah and delivered a sermon that explored what the holy day is about: “change.” As she got further into the speech, she noticed that she overlooked something. Every time...
(JTA) — When Stan Lee died on Nov. 12 at 95, he left behind a vast legacy. Between 1961 and 1969, his greatest sustained burst of creative activity, he co-created a vast array of iconic characters, including Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men,...
BY ANYA TULLMAN, SENIOR, LADUE HORTON WATKINS HIGH SCHOOL
• Published November 16, 2018
My great-grandmother sits in her favorite chair, puts her feet up and asks me if I had any trouble finding a parking spot. When I respond, “No, I got a good spot today, right up front,” she smiles and crosses her hands, displaying perfectly manicured...
Ohr Chadash Teen Page Staff
• Published November 16, 2018
This Thanksgiving, I look forward to seeing my out-of-town family. Every year, my family comes in and we don’t usually do anything that exciting; we just sit around and talk. But, I would say that Thanksgiving is the main holiday that relatives come...
BY RYAN SILVER, FRESHMAN, LADUE HORTON WATKINS HIGH SCHOOL
• Published November 16, 2018
Starting at sundown Dec. 2, Jews around the world will celebrate the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, for eight nights. While there are many ways to celebrate Hanukkah, including lighting the menorah, singing traditional songs and eating foods such as doughnuts...
NEW YORK (JTA) — The advance copies of Deborah Lipstadt’s new book, “Antisemitism Here and Now,” display a cover photo of white supremacist carrying a tiki torch.But that iconic image of the August 2017 white power rally in Charlottesville, Virginia,...
By Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published November 8, 2018
One day, two Miss IsraelsLast Thursday I had an opportunity to interview not one, but two, former Miss Israel winners — Yityish “Titi” Aynaw, Miss Israel 2013, and Linor Abargil, who was crowned in 1998 and went on to become Miss World later that...
By Eric Berger, staff writer
• Published November 7, 2018
When Mac Miller died on Sept. 7, it meant that there was one less Jewish rapper in the world. There was also one less Jewish rapper who had struggled with addiction; Miller died of drug overdose at age 26.Kosha Dillz, the son of Israeli parents, could...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2018
Besides the three documentaries reviewed in this issue, the St. Louis International Film Festival offers a few other films that may interest readers of the Jewish Light.There are several excellent short films in the program, including some from Israel....
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 2, 2018
What connects a non-Jewish Florida woman with a rare liver cancer with a hospital in India and two surgeons, one Israeli and the other British? A Jewish appliance repairman in Canada, whose passion is finding experimental treatments for hopeless cancer...
