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Category: Celebrating the Holidays
Why dairy on Shavuot? Oh, and cheescake recipes
On the second day of Passover, we begin to count the omer (sheaves of a harvested crop). The counting concludes seven weeks later, with Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), which has different names, but is associated with one type of food: dairy products. Hence, my sharing a few cheesecake recipes.
Song of Songs Chapter 4 reads, "honey and milk are under thy tongue," a reference to the Torah being as nourishing as milk and as sweet as honey. Thus, on the holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah, it became traditional to eat foods with milk and honey.
Interpreters of the Tanach liked to use gematria (Jewish system of assigning numerical values to words and phrases, based on their letters). For example, Psalm 68 is read on Shavuot and, in verse 16, it reads: "A mount of G-d is the mountain of Bashan." The Hebrew for peaks is gavnuneem, which sounds like gveeneh (cheese). One could interpret this to mean that, on Shavuot, we should eat mountains of cheese.
Another example: the values of the Hebrew letters in chalav (milk) sum to 40. Moses spent 40 days on Mount Sinai, so we eat foods with milk.
As well, there is a legend that says, until Moses descended with the Torah, kashrut was unknown so, rather than prepare the meat as per the new rules, the people ate dairy. Pragmatically, since Shavuot is a summer festival and Israel is hot, it was logical to eat light, dairy foods. Also, sheep give birth around this time, so milk and cheese are plentiful.
In the Shulchan Aruch (code of Jewish law), Rabbi Moses Isserles wrote: "It is a universal custom to eat dairy food on the first day of Shavuot."
CRUSTLESS CHEESECAKE
1 cup cream cheese
1 1/2 cups creamed cottage cheese
Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray vegetable shortening in a nine-inch round cake pan.
Mix together cream cheese, creamed cottage cheese, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Pour into pan.
Bake 35-40 minutes or until centre firm.
Remove from oven and spread with sour cream while cake is hot. Cool then refrigerate.
BLENDER CHEESECAKE
15 graham crackers
1/4 cup melted margarine or 3 tbsp vegetable oil
1 envelope unflavoured gelatin
grated peel of 1 lemon
1/2 cup hot water or milk
1 package cream cheese
1 heaping cup crushed ice
Break five crackers into quarters, blend to crumbs. Empty into bowl. Repeat twice more.
Stir in sugar and cinnamon. Add melted margarine or oil and mix until crumbs are moist. Grease a spring form pan. Press crust against sides and chill.
Mix in blender gelatin, lemon juice, lemon peel, hot water or milk 40 seconds.
Add sugar, egg yolks and cream cheese and blend 10 seconds. Add ice and sour cream and blend 15 seconds.
Pour onto crumb crust and chill.
MY MOM'S (Z"L) SCRUMPTIOUS CHEESE CAKE
2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup butter or margarine or 1/4 cup plus 2 tbsp oil
dash cinnamon
1 1/2 cups cream cheese
Combine crushed crackers, butter, margarine or oil, sugar and cinnamon and press into spring form pan.
Combine the filling's cream cheese, eggs, sugar and vanilla with a mixer until fluffy. Pour into crust and bake 30 minutes.
Beat topping's sour cream, sugar and vanilla. When cake is done, remove from oven and spread topping on it. Return to oven and bake 10 minutes.
Serve with cherries, crushed pineapple or strawberries on top.
Sybil Kaplan is a journalist, lecturer, book reviewer and food writer in Jerusalem. She created and leads the weekly English-language Shuk Walks in Machane Yehuda, she has compiled and edited nine kosher cookbooks, and is the author of Witness to History: Ten Years as a Woman Journalist in Israel.
Posted on May 31, 2019 May 30, 2019 Author Sybil KaplanCategories Celebrating the HolidaysTags cheesecake, cooking, Judaism, recipes, Shavuot
Memories and miracles
Dr. Robert Krell with Grade 12 King David High School students Gali Goldman, left, and Edden Av-Gay. (photo by Shula Klinger)
On May 2, King David High School marked Yom Hashoah at its annual assembly commemorating those lost in the Holocaust. This year, for the first time, the school hosted Grade 10 students from Alpha Secondary School in Burnaby.
The morning began with prayers for the victims of the recent Poway shooting in San Diego. After a minute's silence, the assembly commenced with a procession led by child Holocaust survivor Dr. Robert Krell. Each of the five KHDS students in the procession carried a candle.
Originally from The Hague, Krell is founding president of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre and an educator and advocate for the centre's programs. He is also professor emeritus, department of psychiatry, University of British Columbia, and distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He was introduced by KDHS students Estie Kallner and Mattea Lewis, his granddaughters. They spoke of their grandfather, thanking him for the "privilege" of hearing firsthand stories of the Holocaust.
Krell began his talk holding up a black and white photograph of himself as a baby. "Who was the enemy of the Third Reich?" he asked the audience. "This," he said.
Krell was born when Holland was already occupied by Nazi forces. Indeed, the hospital he was born in was already partially confiscated by the Gestapo. He described how restrictions were imposed rapidly, every mundane aspect of Jewish life being placed under more and more stringent rules. Deportations began in 1942. Speaking of the local Jewish population being assembled for the euphemistically named "resettlement in the east," he said, "No one panicked sufficiently."
Krell went on to describe how, as family friends began to disappear, his "rather astute" parents fled their home, taking few possessions. "What would you grab?" he asked. His parents abandoned their photo albums because, in enemy hands, they would give away too much personal information.
Placed in the care of a local Dutch Christian family, Krell learned to call the parents Mother and Father. He described them as "the most wonderful people on earth." With them, he said, his life was "comparatively normal." That said, with the ever-present risk of betrayal, as a dark-haired child in a sea of blond heads, he was very noticeable. He was not allowed to look out of the apartment windows; there were Dutch Nazi sympathisers living within sight of his adoptive home.
One of the most powerful aspects of the lecture were Krell's insights on human memory and identity under conditions of extreme stress. He described his recollections as "fragmented, not fully formed" and, while his young mind didn't appreciate the extent of the horrors being committed outside, he said, "I knew something was wrong because I was part of another family." His mother, he explained, remembered nothing of that period. Having given her young son over to a Dutch Christian, he said, "She was in shock for three months." He spoke in the present tense of how his real identity vanished in hiding. "I melt into the family."
As an adult, his adoptive sister, Nora, also buried some memories, which led to a conflict with Krell. He recalled being taken to visit his mother by Nora but Nora said she had never done that. This was a way of "denying me my memory," he said, adding that this denial causes grievous harm to the psyche. Even though we have fragmented memories, he said, "we don't want to give them up because they are part of who we are."
In the end, the disagreement was resolved. Nora had indeed taken Krell to see his mother. Twice, he was nearly discovered and twice he narrowly escaped, first by covering his head with a blanket and, the second time, by hiding under a bed.
His years in hiding were characterized by unease, a looming sense of fear and constant hyper-vigilance. After the war, his family moved to Vancouver, leaving behind Holland, which he said he viewed as "a place of death." He described himself as "the most eager immigrant-in-waiting that ever existed."
Once in Canada, Krell reinvented himself, hiding his shyness behind outward charm and sociability. He said he became resilient, ignoring illness and pain, striving to forge a new life, a family and career for himself.
He spoke of the medical advice he received when dealing with overwhelming feelings – "You should get rid of your obsession with the Holocaust." Instead, he helped found the Holocaust Symposium for high school students and facilitated the recording of 140 testimonies from survivors.
Following the lecture at KDHS, Krell answered questions from students, concerning Holocaust education today, as well as why it is that some people hid Jews and put their own lives at risk. Krell referred to "common decency," adding that his own rescuers "didn't know the precise nature of the unfolding danger, but once they had me, they were committed." He told the students that, in spite of the "showcase" of the Nuremberg trials, "there is no justice." And, are we at risk today? "Massively."
Left to right: KDHS students Gali Goldman and Edden Av-Gay, Dr. Robert Krell's daughter Simone Kallner, Dr. Robert Krell and his granddaughters Estie Kallner and Mattea Lewis. (photo by Shula Klinger)
In his closing comments, Krell shifted from storyteller to teacher, using the narrative of his life to guide the students in theirs. "Learn your history," he said. "In it lies everything to secure the safety of your children and grandchildren."
He said, "Without engaging with the Holocaust, you are at great risk of becoming an under-educated person, and that makes you vulnerable. This mass murder took doctors, lawyers. Physicians were killing children in 1938. It was the doctors, engineers, architects. Each of the professions we trust for our safety. They all worked in the service of mass murder. Safeguard your professions from sliding into the abyss. It happens so quickly."
Grade 12 students Edden Av-Gay and Gali Goldman spoke with Krell after his talk. Av-Gay was struck by how "one person could experience so many miracles in his life, especially someone born into such hardship" and said, "His story is truly amazing."
Goldman, who had recently given a class presentation on youth movements during the Holocaust, had heard Krell tell his story before. She said she was still touched by how "he lost so much but he has devoted his life to teaching about what he went through, even though it was horrific. He can still find parts of his story that were miracles."
Asked about Krell's decision to speak about his past, Av-Gay said, "I think it's not a matter of him being comfortable telling his story, I think he feels obligated to do it, to share his past, to show what happened to six million Jewish people."
Alpha Secondary Grade 10 student Amy Ricker said she found Krell "motivating and inspiring." Ricker, who hopes to become a humanitarian lawyer, said she "teared up because he showed me how in the dark I have been, and how much I want to help people."
One perhaps surprising message in his talk was a warning about tolerance.
"If Jews were 'tolerated' in Holland, and the result was the deaths of over 80% of the Jewish population," he said, "then we have to do much better than just tolerance."
As he finished his lecture, he said, "Realize what you have. Thank your parents and tell your irritating siblings that you love them. I urge you – be kind."
Shula Klinger is an author and journalist living in North Vancouver. Find out more at shulaklinger.com.
Format ImagePosted on May 24, 2019 May 23, 2019 Author Shula KlingerCategories Celebrating the HolidaysTags Alpha Secondary, child survivor, education, Holocaust, KDHS, remembrance, Robert Krell
Honouring our heroes
Elad Pelleg and his grandmother, Dvora. Pelleg shared his family's story during the community's Yom Hazikaron ceremony May 7. (photo from Elad Pelleg)
The sacrifices Israeli families have made for 71 years were marked in Vancouver last week during Yom Hazikaron ceremonies. The tragic losses of life in wars, intifadas and terror attacks were memorialized by hundreds of attendees at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver May 7.
The annual ceremony, led by Geoffrey Druker, specifically acknowledges family members and friends of local community members who have died defending Israel. The impacts of the losses were individualized through the stories of particular families, including numerous who lost more than one member, often across generations and in different wars.
Elad Pelleg, the Dror Israel youth movement shaliach (emissary) to Camp Miriam, shared the story of his grandmother, Dvora Pelleg, a narrative of Zionist longing, loss and rededication.
Dvora was born in Hungary, in 1921, the second daughter in an Orthodox family of seven children.
"As a teenager, she joined a Zionist youth movement, where she discovered a new world, and a new yearning was born: to live in the land of Israel," her grandson told the audience in the Wosk Auditorium.
He recounted the story as his grandmother had told it to him: "One day, we were invited to see a movie about the chalutzim (pioneers) … I asked my mother to join me, to see for herself what Zionism was all about, and understand my dream of moving there. She came from a very Orthodox family. This was not an easy request for her to fulfil. She deliberated and, in order not to disappoint me, decided to come. She did not want to be recognized, so she disguised herself and joined me for the movie. At a time when antisemitism was rampant, seeing a movie that showed the freedom and spirit of living in the land of Israel brought her to tears."
Dvora went on to become a Zionist youth leader and received additional training, hachshara, in preparation for aliyah to the land of Israel.
"In the hachshara, she met my grandfather, Yosef," Pelleg said. "In 1939, the war broke out and their lives changed completely. My grandparents, Dvora and Yosef, decided to move to the capital, Budapest, in an attempt to migrate to Israel illegally. They failed to make this journey, stayed in Budapest and got married in 1942. On the 22nd of August, 1943, their son Michael was born."
Dvora Pelleg holding baby Michael. (photo from Elad Pelleg)
When the Nazis invaded Hungary, Yosef was sent to a labour camp, while Dvora fought to survive with baby Michael.
"She had to keep moving between cellars and attics; she suffered from hunger, and ended up surviving only due to her tremendous effort," said Pelleg. "My grandfather survived a number of labour camps and a death march. After the war, he returned to Budapest to reunite with my grandmother and Michael."
Dvora lost her parents, Hanna and Yitzchak, as well as three siblings, all murdered in Auschwitz.
"The only thing left from her mother is a single photo she carried on her throughout the war," Pelleg said. "Being refugees in their own country, they sought a way to Eretz Israel. In 1947, they boarded an unauthorized ship, Geula, with many other Holocaust survivors. The British, who at that time governed the land of Israel, stopped the ship and sent them to an internment camp in Cyprus, where they were held for almost a year.
"It was there, behind barbed wire, that they heard [about] the establishment of the state of Israel, on May 15, 1948," Pelleg said. "Later that year, they finally made it to Israel, where two sons were born: Shimon and my father, Eli." The couple Hebraized their named to Pelleg from Pollock when they began working for the Israeli government.
Michael grew up in Israel, graduated high school with honours and served in the army as a combat medic. Following his army service, he enrolled in university and studied accounting. In 1966, he married the love of his life, Ester.
"In 1967, the Six Day War broke out," Pelleg recounted. "Michael did not receive an army call-up, but his heart commanded him to pack a bag and join his unit. Before leaving the house for the last time in his life, he said to his mother, 'I can't stay in the classroom while the army is fighting to defend our country.'
"When he reached his unit, he found that they already had a medic in place, yet he insisted on joining them anyway. On the first day of the war, June 5, 1967, in a fierce battle on the outskirts of Rafiah, his armoured vehicle was hit. Michael Pollock, the uncle I never met, was killed.
"My grandmother had to bear the heavy burden on her shoulders and in her soul, of not only being a Holocaust survivor, but also a bereaved mother. Her family was murdered on European soil and her son died in battle in Israel and, this time, she could not save him.
"When I was born, my parents gave me the middle name Michael, in his memory," said Pelleg. "Being my grandmother's first grandson, we have a very special connection and she is a very significant figure in my life. As a child, visiting her in her house, I would ask her many questions: about her family, about the events of the Holocaust, about Michael and why he died in the war. Slowly and with great difficulty, she opened up and shared with me her story, the story of our family."
When Pelleg was 13, the year of his bar mitzvah, he started participating in Yom Hazikaron memorial ceremonies with his family, and described a typical commemoration.
"We start in the evening with a ceremony at Beit Yad L'Banim, the memorial home for fallen soldiers, in the city of Ramat Gan," he said. "In the ceremony, they read the names of all the fallen soldiers of the city, sing a few songs and read passages about mourning, bereavement and love that will never be fulfilled. When Michael's name is called, we light a candle in his memory and listen quietly to Savta crying softly at the end of the row.
"On Yom Hazikaron, the following morning, we meet at the military cemetery at Kiriyat shul. There are thousands of graves there and, around each one of them, a family like mine gathers. We all stand together and listen to the chazzan recite El Maleh Rachamim."
Despite all this, Pelleg said his grandmother's story is not only a story of mourning and bereavement but also of strength and resilience.
"In memory of their son, my grandparents decided to dedicate the rest of their lives in service of the state of Israel," he said. "My grandfather worked first as a civilian in the army, and then in the Ministry of Defence. My grandmother worked in the Mossad, the national intelligence agency, until she retired. After my grandfather passed away, she chose to volunteer at a nonprofit called Yad Sarah, which provides medical equipment for those in need."
Now 98 years old, Dvora is no longer able to attend the memorial ceremonies. On her 90th birthday, Pelleg told her: "Your life shapes my identity, my choices in life, and is expressed through my middle name, Michael, which I carry proudly."
The JCC Choir, led by Noa Cohen, as well as Ellen Silverman on piano and Kinneret Sieradzky on violin, provided musical tributes. Rabbi Shlomo Gabay chanted El Maleh Rachamim. Rabbi Philip Gibbs said Kaddish. If'at Eilon-Heiber lit a yahrzeit candle for her friend Yaacov Koma and Samuel Heller lit a candle for his friend Adero Ahonim. Yoni Rechter, who was the featured performer at the next night's celebration of Israel's independence day, sang his hit song "Tears of Angels." The event was co-sponsored by the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver and the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver.
Druker marked the end of Yom Hazikaron at the Chan Centre just prior to the beginning of the community's Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration. The festivities opened with the singing of O Canada and Hatikvah by the King David High School Choir, directed by Johnny Seguin, and included remarks by Karen James, Candace Kwinter and this year's shinshinim (volunteer emissaries) from Israel, Or Aharoni and Ofir Gady, as well as a video of greetings from previous shinshinim and a call for hosts for next year's volunteers. The JCC's Orr Chadash and Orr Atid dancers, under the leadership of Noga Vieman, performed, as did the Juice Band, before Rechter and his fellow musicians took to the stage. The annual Yom Ha'atzmaut celebration is presented by Jewish Federation, with hotel sponsor Georgian Court, media sponsor Jewish Independent and 45 other community partners. For an interview with Rechter, see jewishindependent.ca/israeli-music-icon-sings-here.
Format ImagePosted on May 17, 2019 May 16, 2019 Author Pat JohnsonCategories Celebrating the HolidaysTags Elad Pelleg, Israel, Yom Ha'atzmaut, Yom Hazikaron
A case for mothering
"Oh, I know that I owe what I am today to that dear little lady so old and grey / To that wonderful Yiddishe momme of mine." (from the song "My Yiddishe Momme," by Sophie Tucker, 1920s)
It was not until the early part of the 20th century that a day was created to honour and officially acknowledge the importance of mothers. Founded by American Anna Jarvis and first observed on May 10 in 1908, Mother's Day will be celebrated this year on May 12.
But times change, and what may have applied in Jarvis's time doesn't go far enough in our present society. A distinction should be made between the mother and the act of mothering: one is a noun, the other a verb. Historically and biologically driven, the role of mothering has been primarily fulfilled by the biological mother. However, in the 21st century, this role is now often carried out by a variety of others, such as fathers, grandparents, adoptive parents, foster parents, step-parents or paid caregivers.
The explosion of neuroscience research over the past few decades has provided a meteoric rise in neurobiological literature with findings that support their predecessors' observations and predictions in child development. Selma Fraiberg (1977) was farsighted when she wrote that mothering "is the nurturing of the human potential of every baby to love, to trust and to bind to human partnerships in a lifetime of love." The evidence from various sources converges in the consensus that the human capacity to love is formed in infancy and this bond should not only be considered a gift of love to the baby, but a right – "a birthright for every child."
Unfortunately, the recognition and awareness of the crucial role of mothering in a child's healthy development and, consequently, to future generations, is gradually being eroded. It is often seen as a secondary role in the scheme of our busy lives. It was 42 years ago when Fraiberg wrote that we are seeing a devaluation of parental nurturing and commitment to babies and young children, which may affect the quality and stability of the child's human attachments in ways that cannot yet be predicted. She warned that the deprivation of a mother or mother substitute will diminish a child's capacity for life.
Fraiberg's cautionary notice is eerily apparent in the growing numbers of young children and troubled youth as reflected in mental health issues and criminal behaviours. For example, Canadian Bullying Statistics (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2012) indicated that 47% of Canadian parents have had a child who has been a victim of bullying; Canada has the ninth-highest rate of bullying in the 13-year-old category in a survey of 35 countries; and at least one in three adolescents have reported being bullied.
The basic needs of children have not changed, but our priorities seem to have been rearranged, as advertisers increasingly shape our wants into needs. We did not invent childhood. We are only discovering what has likely existed since the beginning of time. Louis Cozolino, PhD, (2014) notes there is "a causal link between interpersonal experiences and biological growth." These links are of particular interest in their impact on early caretaking relationships, when the neural infrastructure of the social brain is forming.
As Lloyd deMause notes in The History of Childhood, "That because psychic structure must always be passed from generation to generation through the narrow funnel of childhood, a society's child-rearing practices are not just one item in a list of cultural traits. They are the very condition for the transmission and development of all other cultural elements, and place definite limits on what can be achieved in all other spheres of history."
A world of mothers and mother substitutes has taken on the loving and arduous tasks of mothering, with all the pleasures and perils of parenting. To those who are fortunate to still have mothers in their lives – be thankful and let her know how much she is cherished. For those who don't, treasure the memories that have become even more precious. And for those who are themselves mothers, you have undertaken the most difficult but important task of life with all its joys and sorrows. You have taken on the most valuable contribution to society and its future as well. So, to mothers and to those who mother, we honour you today and every day.
Libby Simon, MSW, worked in child welfare services prior to joining the Child Guidance Clinic in Winnipeg as a school social worker and parent educator for 20 years. Also a freelance writer, her writing has appeared in Canada, the United States, and internationally, in such outlets as Canadian Living, CBC, Winnipeg Free Press, PsychCentral and Cardus, a Canadian research and educational public policy think tank.
Posted on May 10, 2019 May 9, 2019 Author Libby SimonCategories Celebrating the HolidaysTags children, lifestyle, Mother's Day, parenting, women
Crews from the office of the Rabbi of the Western Wall remove tens of thousands of written prayers from the Western Wall. (photo by Gil Zohar)
On April 10, equipped with long sticks, crews from the office of the Rabbi of the Western Wall removed tens of thousands of written prayers, which worshippers had wedged into crevices at the holy site over the previous half year. The painstaking work is done twice annually, in advance of Passover in April and Rosh Hashanah in September, to ensure space for new prayers. The notes that are removed are buried in Mount of Olives Cemetery.
The origin of the practice of placing small folded sheets of paper between the cracks of the 2,000-year-old ashlars is unclear. According to tradition, God's female presence (Shechinah), has never left the holy site.
A retaining wall of the Temple Mount, built by King Solomon circa 960 BCE and destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE, the Kotel Maaravi (Western Wall) stands today beneath a religious plaza known in Arabic to Muslims as al-Haram ash-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary). Jews believe the holy hill marks the navel of the world from where God began his creation 5779 years ago; the site also marks where Abraham brought his son Isaac to offer him up as a sacrifice. Muslims consider the Western Wall to be where Muhammad tethered his winged steed al-Burak when he ascended to the Seventh Heaven. And Christians believe Jesus was one of the millions of Jewish pilgrims in antiquity who came here during the festivals of Passover, Tabernacles and Pentecost.
From 1948 until 1967, when East Jerusalem was under the control of Jordan, Israelis were prohibited from visiting the site.
Gil Zohar is a journalist based in Jerusalem.
Format ImagePosted on April 19, 2019 April 17, 2019 Author Gil ZoharCategories Celebrating the Holidays, IsraelTags Christianity, Islam, Israel, Jerusalem, Judaism, Kotel, Passover, Western Wall
Balabusta preps for Pesach
Harvey's charoset pyramid. (photo by Shelley Civkin)
As the Torah commands us, we tell the story of Passover and the Israelites' exodus from slavery in Egypt to our children and ourselves every year, by reading from the Haggadah. Coming from a secular home, I don't recall our family owning a single Haggadah. Instead, my father had a little black notebook in which he wrote down the story of Passover and the Jews' exodus from Egypt. It took about five minutes for Dad to read it, and then we had our seder. It wasn't particularly traditional, but it was meaningful nonetheless.
On the all-encompassing journey called Yiddishkeit, preparing for Passover scores about an 18/10 on the commitment scale. Between the feathers and flashlights, flourless sponge cakes and briskets, a balabusta has her work cut out for her. And then some.
As an accidental balabusta and relative neophyte to traditional Passover preparations, I want to get with the program as much as possible. I scared myself the other day though, by reading articles about what goes into getting ready for this significant holiday. One such article – called "Cook your Pesach while you sleep" – was particularly troubling. It seems to me that a Pesadik balabusta requires at least 36 hours in every day to prepare her food for the seder, a month ahead of time. She might also require a housekeeper to do all the laundry and clean the house while she's tethered to the kitchen, cutting, peeling, blanching, baking and roasting the eight-course meals she'll serve to her 42 guests over the two nights of Passover. Oh, and did I mention the other two minor meals she needs to organize daily for her family during the eight days of the holiday? Holy flourless kugel, Batman!
And then there's the issue of finding and removing all the chametz from your home. Let me confess something right from the get-go: I am not an observant Jew in the strict sense of the word. I do observe certain things, like going to synagogue every Shabbat, lighting Shabbat candles, doing the odd mitzvah, and studying a little Torah. That's about the extent of it. I refrain from eating chametz during Pesach, but I have never actually removed all the chametz from my home before the holiday. And I don't keep kosher. However, I do eat matzah religiously during Pesach. And I kind of have a crush on shmurah matzah.
As for that age-old shmurah versus Manischewitz matzah debate … I wholeheartedly throw my vote behind shmurah. Yes, it's expensive, but it's so worth it. Having visited Kfar Chabad on our trip to Israel last year, we went to their shmurah matzah factory and witnessed how the matzah is made by hand. Seeing the meticulous precision with which everything is measured, timed and baked, it was a fascinating and educational experience. And did I mention its unique flavour and round shape? Sure, parts of it can be burnt, but that just enhances the taste. Once you go shmurah, you'll never go back.
I'm the kind of accidental balabusta that, instead of making matzah ball soup, brisket, tzimmes and macaroons for Pesach, I'm inclined to make hotel reservations in Whistler and call it a day. There's no need for me to be Jewish Wonder Woman. Gal Godot has that covered. I know, not every woman who prepares for Pesach considers herself Wonder Woman. But, given the magnitude of preparation that must get done in advance – and done to rigorous standards – I'm pretty sure that devotedly observant women qualify for that title. As for me, I'll do the best I can to honour the traditions, prepare a welcoming and tasty seder for my family, then enjoy a plotzfest.
Preparing for Pesach can be dangerous though. A couple of years ago, I decided to forgo the store-bought chrain (horseradish) and make my own. I found a recipe, then went out and bought the fresh horseradish root. It looked innocent enough. From a distance. Nobody told me that taking a close-up whiff of newly pulverized horseradish root is akin to inhaling mustard gas. I thought I'd burned my lungs. Sure, it produced that unrivaled heat I always admire in a memorable horseradish. However, it almost knocked me out. This Pesach, I plan to simplify the process by buying horseradish. And saving my lungs for more important things … like breathing.
On the topic of food … my husband Harvey makes the ultimate Passover crowd-pleaser: a visually stunning, delicious pyramid-shaped charoset. He got the recipe decades ago from the L.A. Times. It never fails to impress guests. Here's the recipe.
HARVEY'S CHAROSET PYRAMID
1 unpeeled pear, cored and chopped roughly
1 unpeeled apple, cored and chopped roughly
1 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup chopped almonds
1 cup chopped hazelnuts
1 cup chopped pistachios
1 cup chopped pitted dates
1 cup chopped raisins
2 tsp grated fresh ginger
sweet wine, preferably Manischewitz (about 1/4 cup)
extra dates to decorate the plate
Put all the nuts in food processor and chop, but not too finely. Place in a bowl.
Put dates and raisins in food processor and chop, but not too finely. Place in separate bowl.
Core and roughly chop apple and pear by hand, then put in the food processor, along with the nuts, and the raisin and date mixture. Add cinnamon, ginger, apple cider vinegar and wine. Chop till it's all mixed together. Be careful not to overdo it – you don't want it mushy.
Remove it all from the food processor and shape it into a pyramid with a spatula. Then use a small, sharp knife to lightly make "brick" shapes in the pyramid. Refrigerate. Put whole dates around the outside before serving.
For another Passover culinary experience, check out Jamie Geller's recipe for potato kugel cups at joyofkosher.com/recipes/potato-kugel-cups. You can YouTube it, too. If you're not afraid of hot oil in a 425°F oven, this recipe will knock your Pesach socks off. Personally, scorching hot oil makes me a bit skittish. But the result is potato heaven.
As Pesach approaches, it's a time to clean house, both literally and spiritually. It's a time to remember how blessed we are in our freedom as Jews today. And it's a time to hold close our traditions, pass along the story of our exodus from Egypt to the younger generation, and be thankful for where we are now.
So, eat the matzah and bitter herbs and drink those four cups of wine. Then go out and buy lots of Metamucil. Because you're going to need it after eight days of matzah. But check with your rabbi first to make sure Metamucil is kosher for Pesach.
Wishing you all a meaningful and freilach Pesach.
Shelley Civkin, aka the Accidental Balabusta, is a happily retired librarian and communications officer. For 17 years, she wrote a weekly book review column for the Richmond Review, and currently writes a bi-weekly column about retirement for the Richmond News.
Format ImagePosted on April 12, 2019 June 12, 2019 Author Shelley CivkinCategories Celebrating the Holidays, Op-EdTags cooking, Judaism, lifestyle, Passover
About the cover art – Passover 2019
Moses and Aaron lead the Israelites to the Red Sea in this still from Nina Paley's feature-length animated film Seder-Masochism, which screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival last year and is available to view for free online at archive.org/details/sedermasochism. Being in the public domain means that all of Paley's animation and images are free for anyone to use. Nonetheless, the Jewish Independent requested and received her blessing to run the images from the film that grace the cover of this issue and its Passover section.
According to sedermasochism.com, the film "loosely follows the Passover seder story, with events from the Book of Exodus retold by Moses, Aharon, the Angel of Death, Jesus and the director's father. The film puts a twist on the traditional biblical story by including a female deity perspective – the Goddess – in a tragic struggle against the forces of patriarchy."
The feature was "in the works since 2012, when Paley first animated a scene called This Land Is Mine, a parody about never-ending conflict in the Levant, which has been viewed over 10 million times on various online channels." Paley has written and designed a companion book, The Seder-Masochism: A Haggadah and Anti-Haggadah, which can be purchased through Amazon.
Paley is also the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which, her bio at palegraylabs.com notes, "has screened in over 150 film festivals and won over 35 international awards." It continues: "Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to join questioncopyright.org as artist-in-residence in 2008. Prior to becoming an animator, Nina was a syndicated cartoonist. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, she also produced a series of animated shorts about intellectual freedom called Minute Memes. Nina began quilting in 2011 as a way to do something real with her hands after years of pushing pixels."
Readers can find out more about Paley at blog.ninapaley.com.
Format ImagePosted on April 12, 2019 April 12, 2019 Author The Editorial BoardCategories Celebrating the HolidaysTags art, film, Nina Paley, Passover, Seder-Masochism
Enjoy these Pesach desserts
In Jerusalem, as soon as Purim is over, everyone begins to get ready for Pesach. Two-and-a-half weeks ahead, macaroons are already in the stores, as well as various other products for the holiday. Here are a few desserts you can make at home, from traditional to unusual.
CLASSIC ALMOND MACAROONS
Makes 20 macaroons. This recipe is adapted from an American food magazine (not sure which).
1 1/2 cups blanched almonds
4 tsp confectioners sugar
Place almonds in a pan, cover with water and bring to a boil. Boil 10 seconds. Remove one almond and see if it slips out of its skin. If not, boil a few seconds more. Spread on paper towels and pat dry once ready.
Preheat oven to 325 °F. Line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper.
Grind almonds with 1/4 cup sugar in processor. Add egg whites and extract and blend 20 seconds. Add the 3/4 cup sugar in two batches, blending 10 seconds after each addition.
Roll one tablespoon of mixture between moistened palms into ball. Repeat until all mixture is used, spacing cookies one inch apart on the prepared cookie sheet. Flatten each to half-an-inch high. Brush each with water. Sift confectioners sugar over each. Bake for 25 minutes.
Lift one end of parchment paper and pour two tablespoons water onto cookie sheet. Lift other end and pour two tablespoons water under. Tilt to spread water. When water stops boiling, remove macaroons.
CHOCOLATE BISCOTTI
3 1/2 cups matzah flour
1 1/4 cups potato flour
1 tbsp Passover baking powder
5/8 cup ground almonds
Preheat oven to 375°F. Spray a cookie sheet.
In a bowl, cream margarine or butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla.
In another bowl, combine matzah flour, potato flour, cocoa and baking powder. Gradually add to batter.
Add nuts and chocolate chips and combine.
Form into two logs and place on cookie sheet. Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool.
Slice. Return slices to cookie sheet and bake 15 minutes.
TOFFEE MATZAH
This is my favourite sweet for Pesach but this version is an Andrew Zimmern contribution from Food & Wine magazine with a few of my changes.
1 cup salted butter or margarine
5 pieces of matzah
1 cup mixed chopped nuts
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a cookie sheet with foil and spray with vegetable spray. Line with parchment paper and spray again.
Arrange a layer of matzah on the sheet.
Melt butter or margarine with brown sugar in a saucepan. Cook five minutes. Pour over matzah. Bake five to eight minutes, until bubbling.
Remove from oven and spread chocolate chips on top, letting them melt for five minutes. Sprinkle nuts on top. Let cool or refrigerate to cool. Break into pieces.
MARILYN'S CHOCOLATE BRANDIED CANDY
Marilyn is a longtime friend of mine who came from the Boston area and has lived in Israel since 1949.
3 1/2 ounces bittersweet chocolate (a candy bar works fine)
1 cup raisins, soaked in cherry brandy
1 cup matzah pieces
Melt chocolate in a saucepan. Add raisins, walnuts and matzah and mix well.
Drop by tablespoon into small cupcake papers. Refrigerate.
Format ImagePosted on April 12, 2019 April 10, 2019 Author Sybil KaplanCategories Celebrating the HolidaysTags baking, biscotti, macaroons, matzah, Passover, recipes
The great matzah ball debate
What food eaten during Pesach causes the most debates? If you guessed matzah balls, you're right. Should they be hard or light? Big or small? What secret ingredient should be added to them?
From where did matzah balls, or kneidlach, originate? German Jews had a dumpling that they put into their soup called knodel. From this came the Yiddish term kneydl, singular, or kneydlach, in the plural. In Czech, it is known as knedliky. Dumplings have been in Central European cookery since the Middle Ages and then they came to Germany and Eastern Europe later.
So, just how many ways are there to make matzah balls?
Joan Nathan, a friend of mine, who has written a number of cookbooks and is considered a maven of American Jewish cooking, proposes adding chicken fat or vegetable oil plus seltzer, club soda or chicken broth, to make them light and airy. In Jewish Cooking in America, she also relates that some matzah balls, originating in Lithuania, use chicken fat or vegetable shortening and contain a filling made of onion, oil or chicken fat, matzah meal, egg yolk, salt, pepper and cinnamon. The filling is then placed in the middle of the matzah ball before they are cooked in salt water. After cooking in salt water, they are baked 30 minutes then placed in the soup for serving. Joan also has a recipe for matzah balls made in the southern United States, using pecans. In my research, I discovered that some Louisiana Jews add green onions and cayenne pepper.
In her cookbook Quiches, Kugels and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France, Joan explains that, in France, matzah balls are called boulettes de paque, krepfle or kneipflich. They are the size of walnuts and not fluffy. They are made from stale bread or matzah soaked in water and dried, and they contain rendered goose fat, vegetable oil or beef marrow, eggs, water or chicken broth, matzah meal, salt, pepper, ginger and nutmeg.
In The New York Times Passover Cookbook, edited by Linda Amster, among the recipes for matzah balls is one by Mimi Sheraton, Times food critic at the time, who used chicken fat and cold water. Another is from Joan's cookbook Jewish Holiday Kitchen, and she uses ginger and nutmeg. The winning recipe for the first Matzah Bowl contest in New York at the time the Times cookbook was published used vodka and club soda. A low-fat, low-salt version is made with egg whites and vegetable oil. Another style, which is airy, is made with beef marrow, instead of chicken fat, plus nutmeg.
Refrigeration and the temperature of the liquid seem to be key common denominators in many recipes.
Nina Rousso, an Israeli, in her book The Passover Gourmet, uses beaten egg yolks, lukewarm water, melted margarine, salt, parsley, matzah meal and stiffly beaten egg whites folded in. The mixture is refrigerated two hours before making.
In Passover Lite, Gail Ashkenazi-Hankin, an American, combines egg yolks, onion powder, salt, pepper, matzah meal, water and beaten egg whites and chills the mixture 30 minutes.
Zell Schulman, the American author of Let My People Eat, says the key to making light, melt-in-your-mouth, floating matzah balls is to beat egg whites until stiff then fold into the yolks with salt, pepper, cinnamon, matzah meal and optional parsley and refrigerate 15 minutes. A second version combines matzah meal with only the beaten egg whites until they hold peaks, plus parsley, cinnamon, grated carrot and oil, but no egg yolks.
Susan Friedland, the American author of The Passover Table, combines whole eggs with seltzer, salt, pepper, matzah meal and schmaltz, which she refrigerates for one hour. The schmaltz adds the flavour.
Marlene Sorosky, American author of Fast and Festive Meals for the Jewish Holidays, provides a recipe using ground almonds, ginger and chopped parsley. She chills the matzah balls for one hour.
Edda Servi Machlin, whose family has 2,000-year-old roots in Italy, says her family serves a mix between Italian Passover soup and Ashkenazi chicken soup. Her matzah balls are made of chopped chicken, egg, broth, olive oil, salt, pepper, nutmeg and matzah meal. The batter is refrigerated one hour before making.
Other Italian Jews, who call the matzah balls gnocchi di azzaima, add onions or mashed potatoes to the dough or grated lemon rind.
An aside: In 2001, Ariel Toaff, a professor at Bar-Ilan University, who is the son of Rome's chief rabbi, came out with a book called Mangiare alla Giudia (Eating the Jewish Way). He devotes a chapter to Passover traditions, and writes that matzah was so popular that the Catholic authorities banned Jews from selling matzah to non-Jews and banned Christians from eating it.
Italian bakers also baked different kinds of matzah: plain for intermediate days, shmurah matzah for the sederim, and matzah made with white wine, eggs, sugar, anise and goose fat for those with more rich tastes.
Jews of Italy even developed sfoglietti or foglietti, a kosher-for-Passover pasta made with flour and eggs, which was then quickly dried and baked in a hot oven and served in soup or with a sauce.
Joyce Goldstein, an American fascinated by Italian Jewish cuisine, describes, in Cucina Ebraica, a combination of ground chicken, egg, matzah meal, salt, pepper and cinnamon, which she refrigerates before cooking in soup, but she does not say for how long.
Sonia Levy, a native of Zimbabwe, wrote a cookbook of her community, called Traditions. She describes luft kneidlach, light matzah balls, made with matzah meal, water, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon or ginger, eggs and oil. These must be refrigerated at least half a day. She adds that you can also make a pit with a finger and insert chopped meat that has been mixed with fried onions and spices. Another Zimbabwe version uses egg, cold water, chicken fat, salt, pepper, ginger and matzah meal.
Ruth Sirkis, an Israeli, in A Taste of Tradition, says "air" matzah balls have eggs, matzah meal, salt, chicken soup and chicken fat and are refrigerated two hours.
Another version, by Anya von Bemzen and John Welchman in Please to the Table: A Russian Cookbook, has walnut balls for soup, which are made by the Georgian Jews using ground walnuts, onion, egg, matzah meal, oregano, salt, pepper and a froth egg white.
A couple of last pieces of matzah ball trivia. In 2008, a New York kosher delicatessen held its annual matzah ball-eating competition to raise money for a shelter for the homeless. The winner ate 78 matzah balls in eight minutes. Although not in the Guinness Book of World Records, a few years ago, the largest matzah ball was measured at 17.75 inches across and weighed more than 33 pounds.
And, lastly, among some ultra-Orthodox Jews, matzah balls are not eaten because they expand when they cook, and they consider this reaction a form of leavening.
Regardless of the style of matzah balls you prefer, just make plenty for your guests!
Posted on April 12, 2019 April 10, 2019 Author Sybil KaplanCategories Celebrating the HolidaysTags books, cooking, culture, history, matzah, Passover
Pesach: story of a people's birth
God Almighty Herself induces Egypt to give birth. We simply need to listen for the birth mother's screams in the delivery room. We hear the screams throughout the plagues, as they become increasingly intensive, starting with the first plague, blood. (illustration by Nina Paley)
The idea of the Exodus as a birth story begins as Shemot (Exodus) begins. The first chapter brings us into the atmosphere of a giant delivery room. Things have gotten out of control: "And the Israelites were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and grew exceedingly strong and the land was filled with them." (Shemot 1:7)
The Israelites are having children all the time. There's this anonymous, collective mass of people that are steadily spreading out. The only two figures mentioned by name are the midwives, Shifra and Pua, and there's a reason for that. The book is telling us: "Pay attention, readers. We are entering a delivery room, and so the most important figures are the midwives. You will feel this sense of birth."
If one didn't get this sense from Chapter 1, take a look at Chapter 2. It begins with the personal birth story of Moses, the story of a natural, biological birth, in which a woman becomes pregnant and has a son. A few verses later, the mother places the baby in an ark, or basket, and, when Pharaoh's daughter comes by, she takes him in and becomes his adoptive mother. She, too, has a birth story. There's a womb – the ark. There's water – the Nile. She sees the womb, the ark. She opens it and she sees the baby. She, too, is portrayed as having given birth. If we saw a portrait of the natural, biological birth by the Hebrew mother, we also have a portrait of the Egyptian adoptive mother who takes the child.
This "birth" mindset will intensify and be actualized through this grand metaphoric story we call the story of the Exodus from Egypt. There was a famine in Canaan, so the Israelites went to Egypt to buy grain and find seed. They stayed. Scripture tells us how they "were fruitful and increased abundantly and multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, and the land was filled with them."
This little nucleus, the embryo that first descended, is developing within this large Egyptian womb, Israel's "surrogate mother," which nourishes this fetus. The time comes for the birth. As in any case of surrogate motherhood, there is difficulty. On one hand, it's not my baby. I want it out. On the other hand, there's emotional difficulty. I nourished that child. He's part of my body.
From the perspective of the child, there will be problems, or challenges, of attraction and repulsion toward the surrogate mother in whom he developed. The Children of Israel grew and developed in that womb, and it must be taken out. But the Egyptian mother refuses to begin the birthing process.
Enter the most powerful midwife imaginable – God Almighty Herself. She induces Egypt to give birth. The entire story is described in this manner. We simply need to listen for the birth mother's screams in the delivery room. We hear the screams throughout the plagues, as they become increasingly intensive. Blood. Frogs. Lice. Beasts. Pestilence. Boils.
We're standing next to the birth mother, saying, "Push! Push! Scream! Scream! Let this baby out!" Just before the birth, a moment before the Children of Israel emerge, they are commanded to paint the doorposts with blood. Soon after, this people will pass through this doorway.
They will reach the waters. And the waters will descend, as well. Then the sea will split in two, and the Children of Israel will pass through the waters on dry land, through the birth canal that has opened for them. At the end of the birth canal, who will be waiting for them? The midwife, ready to grasp them and teach them to walk.
This story, this birth story, is the powerful story of the birth of a people. But, beyond the importance of hearing this story, it can also explain what happens later, during their travels in the desert.
Like any newborn baby, the people will cry and scream for their most immediate needs – water, food. Moses and God will provide for them because that's how you take care of an infant. You give water and food. You can't expect anything else. Slowly but surely, he will be taught to walk. Slowly, he will learn rules. He will be given laws to follow.
When we meet this child in Bamidbar (Numbers), once he has grown, he will make the same requests that he made in Shemot as an infant: water and food. But God's response will be different, because we don't have the same expectations of a little baby that we have from a growing child. We expect something different.
How do we connect this to the seder night? The Exodus, first, is a story. There is a strong emphasis on telling the story. It has all the detail it needs, and all the drama we want. These are what make this story a foundational story, one that can be transmitted generation after generation.
We sit around and tell our birth as a people. We try to impart it to the next generation. When we tell the story with all its detail, it excites us once more. But why is this done over matzah?
God planned the Exodus from the time of Abraham: "Know that your seed will be a sojourned in a land not theirs; they will serve them and be tormented by them for 400 years. But then they will go out with great wealth."
It's all planned, down to the moment. God tells them to have their loins girded, their bags packed and their food prepared and, when I say so, leave. Everything had been planned. So what happened? Why couldn't the dough rise? Why couldn't they have fresh rolls?
This is a precise dramatization of a birth story. If you want it to be credible, it has to be exact. As in the story of any birth, everything is planned. There's a due date. There's a packed suitcase, a list of phone numbers to call. If it's not the first birth, there are arrangements for the older kids.
Yet labour will always be unexpected. It's always sudden. The water breaks suddenly. Contractions come suddenly. Suddenly, it's time to go. That's birth. Everything is planned, but the moment arrives suddenly. This is the meaning of eating matzah. It's as if we are saying, everything was there, everything was planned. This birth was a major event and, like every other birth, it was unexpected. Despite all the preparations, we had to run, we had to leave. The dough did not have a chance to rise. All that could be made from it was matzah.
Ilana Pardes's book The Biography of Ancient Israel describes this as the story of a collective persona, the people of Israel: "The Israelites are delivered collectively out of the womb of Egypt. National birth, much like individual births (and all the more so in ancient times), takes place on a delicate border between life and death. It involves the transformation of blood from a signifier of death to a signifier of life. It also involves the successful opening of the womb, the prevention of the womb's turning into a tomb…. God performs a variety of wonders in Egypt (the 10 plagues in fact are perceived as such), but the parting of the Red Sea seems to surpass them all. It marks the nation's first breath – out in the open air – and serves as a distinct reminder of the miraculous character of the birth. Where there was nothing, a living creature emerges all of a sudden…."
As we sit around the seder table, around the matzah, telling the story of our birth each year, you may want to read from the poem, "Miracles," by Yehuda Amichai: "From a distance everything looks like a miracle / But up close even a miracle doesn't appear so. / Even someone who crossed the Red Sea when it split only saw the sweaty back of the one in front of him."
Ask every participant at the seder to think of something that happened to them during the year, something that, because the individual was part of it, they "only saw the sweaty back of the one in front of him." If we were to take a step back and look at things from a distance, we could have said to ourselves: "I'm living through a miracle. I'm passing through the sea, on dry land. I'm undergoing the process of birth, right now."
It is worthwhile, and it even brings joy, to mention this miracle and think about it at this event celebrating the great miracle of the nation's birth.
Dr. Orit Avnery is a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She received her PhD in Bible studies at Bar-Ilan University. Her dissertation is entitled The Threefold Cord: Interrelations between the Books of Samuel, Ruth and Esther. This article is based on a talk she gave in Hebrew. Articles by Avnery and other institute scholars can be found at shalomhartman.org.
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A: I am summing up your points.

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*You are saving a record with Attendance = False and Leave Type = Sick Leave.(This is the value saved in DB).

*Now you are trying to edit this record. Changing Attendance = True, Now the Leave Type = Readonly. So this field can't be updated using onchange method.

If you want to update this field value then you have to do it in the write method.
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I hope it will help.

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This application was created to help patients and caregivers in the management of these difficult to treat diseases (Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis …). It is intended primarily to treat emergencies (crisis, paralysis, etc.) anywhere in the world, provided there is an Internet or mobile network. It also manages medical appointments and treatments.The application helps to manage medication use through a digital pillbox, the patient record, links with the team, and appointments. It offers an integrated forum that solicits the community of sick people and their caregivers. The application, sold as a monthly subscription (less than 3 euros after the first 30 free days), is translated into three languages: French, English, Spanish and is accessible from a smartphone, a tablet or a connected watch. It is only available for Android. Olivier created, in 2017, a crowdfunding campaign to help develop this app.
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Olivia Wilde answers questions about spitgate, Shia LeBeouf, and Florence Pugh
Curtis Roberts Sep 22, 2022 12:39 am Sep 27, 2022 12:23 am
Appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Wednesday night, Olivia Wilde answered the host's questions that we all wanted to ask.
Promoting her upcoming film that you may have heard hundreds of times already, in case you've managed not to it's called Don't Worry, Darling, Wilde's film has received enormous attention for many reasons, including alleged feuds and controversies, and the fact that it stars music's present poster-boy heartthrob, Harry Styles, who also began a relationship with Wilde while filming.
Wilde not only directed and produced the film but she also stars in it. However, the main star of the film is Florence Pugh, whom it was rumored had issues with Wilde. When Colbert asked Wilde about it, she simply said, "I have only respect for Florence Pugh. I have nothing against her for any reason."
"People will look for drama anywhere they can. Harry did not spit on Chris, in fact." — @oliviawilde on #spitgate
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— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) September 22, 2022
Colbert then asked her whether or not Harry Styles spit on Chris Pine, referring to a moment now referred to as "spitgate" where Harry Styles appeared to spit on Pines at the film's premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Wilde commented, "Harry did not spit on Chris, in fact. He really didn't. People can look at a video that shows evidence of someone NOT spitting on someone else and they'll still see what they want to see."
Wilde also discussed the controversy surrounding Shia LeBeouf who, after Wilde said she fired him, posted a video of Wilde trying to talk him into not quitting. About the video, Wilde explained. "There were private messages released without context to try and make a situation look like something that it wasn't."
This prompted Colbert to ask directly, "Did you fire Shia LeBeouf?"
Wilde answered:
"We had to replace Shia. He is a fantastic actor but it wasn't going to work. When he gave me the ultimatum of him or Florence, I chose Florence and that was him feeling he was stepping away and me feeling like we were moving on without him."
The director also took time to note the tremendous effort involved by everyone who worked on the film, explaining that, because of the pandemic, it took three years to make. She added, "It was a massive team effort and there were so many of us that came together and pushed through….we're so proud of it."
In regards to the ongoing discussions and controversy surrounding the film that Wilde referred to as a "Twitter storm," she pointed out the irony of it all when she mentioned, "The film is about the narratives we're fed and whether we choose to accept them."


American television journalist Scott Pelley was born in San Antonio, Texas on the 28 July 1957 to John Elmer and Wanda Pelley.
Scott Pelley attended Coronado High School, and after graduating, he studied at Texas Tech University but left without a degree.
In 1975 Pelley started working as a journalist in Lubbock, Texas before moving to Fort Worth (1978-1982) and then to Dallas (1982-1989). In 1989 he was offered a job with the CBS Network. During the early 1990s, he rose to prominence when he covered the Gulf War (1990/1991) as well as the 1992 presidential campaigns of both Bill Clinton and Ross Perot.
During 1993 he reported on the World Trade Centre bombing as well as the siege in Waco, Texas. In 1995 he also reported on the Oklahoma City bombing. From 1997 until 1999 he was the Chief White House Correspondents for CBS News. During his time the Monica Lewinsky affair occurred which led to the impeachment of President Clinton. Pelley joined 60 Minutes in 1999 and assignments included interviewing president-elect George W Bush, covering September 11 and the collapse of the World Trade Center. He moved to 60 Minutes on Sunday in 2004. Pelley continued reporting on all the major issues of the times including the economic collapse of 2008, wars, climate change and terrorism. His 2008 interview with the chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank Ben Bernanke won an Emmy.
In 2011 Scott Pelley was a correspondence with 60 Minutes as well as the managing editor and anchor for the CBS Evening News. When Pope Francis visited the United States, Pelley covered it after having earlier been granted an interview at the Vatican with the pope just before the visit. In June 2017 Pelley signed off from his role as news anchor for CBS Evening News, returning to 60 Minutes as a full-time correspondent.
He married Jane Boone in 1983, and the couple had two children together.


Over time, real estate investments have afforded many people with the powerful combination of appreciation and income. The purchase of real estate through a self-directed IRA is a popular investor choice for this and other reasons.
PFR has experience providing clients with education and support to put their retirement plan to work for them through real estate IRAs and self directed IRAs.
If your self-directed real estate IRA doesn't have enough money to pay for the entire purchase, you can finance or leverage any income-producing property. The property is used as the collateral for the loan. Because the property belongs to your IRA, the debt must be repaid from assets within your IRA, whether it's income from the property, permissible contributions, or other assets in the IRA.
All real property is either purchased or sold for your benefit using your Qualified Plan and/or IRA funds.
A real property purchase or sale is initiated by executing either a Buy or Sell Direction Letter For Real Estate. Specific instructions for completion of these direction letters are contained on the forms.
Your entire transaction must flow through the tax-free or tax-deferred retirement account. The escrow must be opened by the account, not in the name of the beneficial owner. Vesting is always in the name of the account. The funds in your IRA may be used as good faith deposits, down payments, or purchase money.
Neither you nor your family members (other than siblings) may live in or lease the property while it's in your plan.
Your business may not lease or be located in or on any part of the property while it's in your plan.
The record-keeping and administration expenses charged by PFR may be paid either directly from separate funds or through the Plan, and may be tax deductible.
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Lessons From 20 Years on the Stock Market Rollercoaster
Embrace uncertainty to avoid repeating investment mistakes
by Allan Roth, AARP, January 14, 2020 | Comments: 0
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The wild investing ride of the first two decades of the 21st century is over. As we enter the next decade, it's important to look back over the past 20 years for lessons we can take into the future. Let me walk you through the emotional highs and lows many of us experienced and try to draw a few lessons from them.
The century began near the height of the dot-com bubble when internet companies with little revenue and huge losses had valuations in the tens of billions of dollars. People who questioned those valuations were told they were stuck in the old economy. The Standard & Poor's 500 stock index peaked on March 24, 2000, and quickly plunged by nearly 50 percent.
During the tech wreck, some clients came to me in shock, wondering how their many stock funds could have lost 70 to 80 percent. Those stock funds, of course, all owned the same dot-com companies. A total stock index fund was far more diversified.
As stocks soared to new heights, the dot-com bubble was soon forgotten. This time the bull was real — as in real estate. You can't print more real estate, right? Between October 2002 and March 2007, U.S. stocks gained 133 percent and international stocks gained 240 percent. Bonds steadily gained 22 percent.
I advised clients that a third of their equities should be in international stocks and the typical response was, "Why only a third – isn't all the growth coming from overseas? We want whatever is hot."
Of course, this bubble burst as well. Getting mortgages was all too easy. The defaults that soon followed caused the collapse of many Wall Street titans like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns.
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This plunge was slightly more than the dot-com bubble, with U.S. stocks losing 55 percent and international stocks dropping 60 percent by the market bottom on March 9, 2009. But it was the fact that the plunge happened so quickly that magnified the pain so much. Only high-quality investment grade bonds and bond funds did well. Morningstar reported that the average bond fund lost about 8 percent in 2008. Many bond funds behaved more like stocks, as investors reached for income but lost much of their principal.
And advisers, who were supposed to keep investors disciplined with a relatively stable asset allocation between risky assets (stocks) and low-risk assets (bonds and cash), timed the market poorly.
After the plunge, some clients asked me if I could promise the bottom was near and, of course, I had to say I couldn't. All I could say is that capitalism will survive, and that selling now guarantees you'll never reach your financial goals. I was saying all the right things in this CBS MoneyWatch video , but inside I was feeling an excruciating pain that I was desperately trying to hide, and my inner voice was pleading, Please, please, please, let me be right.
Though stocks recovered very quickly after the March 9, 2009, bottom, it was a lost decade, with U.S. stocks losing ground and international stocks gaining 25 percent. High-quality bonds were the star, gaining 80 percent.
The longest bull in history
We all know the rest of the story. On March 9, 2009, the longest bull market in history began, and it still continues. From then to the end of the next decade and into the next, returns were okay for international stocks and bonds and fantastic for U.S. stocks. In the end, returns for the entire period looked as follows, using the same three index funds.
(I'm using the broadest of the low-cost U.S. and international stock funds in my examples, so they include reinvested dividends as well as the costs one would have to pay.)
With international stocks now lagging, I still recommend to clients to put a third of their stock portfolio in international stocks. But now many clients say, "I can't go that high — there are too many problems overseas."
Mistakes I saw over the past decade:
Chasing what worked well in the past
Trying to earn extra income but losing principal
Waiting for a pullback to get in the market but never getting back in
Creating unnecessary complexity
Paying too much in fees
Though the roller-coaster ride of the past two decades may be over, investors are lining up to ride the next one, and it could be even wilder. What will the next decade or two look like? Are we in a bubble today? I don't know the answer to either question, and that's the key to investing — embrace the uncertainty and stay disciplined in balanced low-cost diversified portfolios. That is not to say I don't know some things — one being that it's incredibly unlikely the bull will last another decade.
So as we move into the future, I encourage you to have the conviction to heed my predictions for the next decade. Though the new year has begun, it's not too late to make these Five New Year's financial resolutions. Finally, remember these four money rules to take control of your financial future.
Allan Roth is the founder of Wealth Logic, an hourly-based financial planning firm in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has taught investing and finance at universities and written for Money magazine, the Wall Street Journal and others. His contributions aren't meant to convey specific investment advice.
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With Bravo's Million Dollar Listing airing in over 250 countries year round and averaging 1.6 million viewers per episode, Josh Altman is quickly becoming a household name!
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I've made roasted root vegetables before. I will make them again. And again. For this batch I used all of the "leftovers" from my garden-- you know, the roots that get forgotten about until the ground freezes and then you say "Crud! I need to dig those up!"
Root vegetables have wonderful nutrient values, they can be stored for a very long time, and they often cost less than other vegetables. Slowly baking them creates a fantastic sweet flavor. If you plan on roasting other vegetables with your roots, such as asparagus or broccoli, add them about halfway through cooking.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Toss carrots and beets (and/or other roots of your choice such as parsnips) with olive oil. Place onto a baking sheet and sprinkle with vegetable seasoning. Bake for ~40 minutes or until tender (but not mushy).
Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes prior to serving. Garnish with herbs and enjoy!
These look delicious, I love roasted veggies especially beets!
please can you tell me what vegetable seasoning is? is it seasoning salt? thanx.
Hi Yvonne! There are several brands of seasoning that produce a mixture just referred to as "vegetable seasoning". I like to use the McCormick's brand called "Perfect Pinch vegetable seasoning". There is also one called "vegetable supreme". Any seasoning combination would work, however!


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The Kiama BUG caters for riders of all ages and abilities.
A useful point of contact for the Kiama BUG is through Des and Wendy at Kiama Cycles and Sports, at the corner of Collins and Minnamurra Streets Kiama (opposite the 'Terrace' shops).


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I got my passport holder from Urby, and it is the Classic Traveller Passport Cover (Croco). It is handy for all the trips and lets your 60-page passport fit into its pocket easily. Urby crafted the passport in excellent leather and is crafted in premium grained leather. Complete dimension of the passport holder is 13.3 cm (L) x 19.1 cm (W) x 1.3 cm (H).
The color of my passport holder is golden, and it came in a box with a drawstring pouch. The interior of the passport holder is simply amazing. It is in the rich jacquard interior with the really slim finish. The premium quality makes it really durable. Other than this one pocket for the passport there are two more pockets where you can keep your boarding pass and credit/debit cards handy (so you can purchase something real quick). Other than these pockets there is one more pocket on the backside of the passport holder where you can keep any necessary papers or any other thing handy.
Urby gave me a personalized passport by engraving my name on the passport holder. It makes my passport holder even more special for me because this passport belongs to me only as I have my name engraved on it. Heheheh….
So, all those people who travel frequently should own a passport holder not because they want to protect their passports, but to add an extra oomph while traveling. If you keep traveling from one country to another than it would be easy to maintain papers and documents for next trip plus it will give your stylish impression to the customs department who is there to check your passport and your other belongings.
Passport holder looks amazing. looking forward to get one personalize passport holder.
I love such personalized products.. Infact i have the same urby passport holder which has my name on it.. It is really of very good quality and so close to me..
What an impression it holds – Personalized passport holder. Lovely like the way name has been scripted on it.
I too have ordered one for me and waiting eagerly to receive it. The passport holders are so quirky and beautiful.
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Widow suing Twitter for giving voice to IS
Twitter is being sued by a widow of an American killed in Jordan.
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The widow of an American killed in Jordan is suing Twitter for giving a voice to Islamic State.
Florida woman Tamara Fields said Twitter knowingly let IS maintain official Twitter accounts and knowingly allowed it to use its network to raise money and spread propaganda. She has accused Twitter of violating the US Anti-Terrorism Act.
"Without Twitter, the explosive growth of ISIS over the last few years into the most-feared terrorist group in the world would not have been possible," Fields said in her complaint filed in a California federal court on Wednesday.
Her lawyer said he believed this to be the first time a social media company was accused of violating the Anti-Terrorism Act.
"While we believe the lawsuit is without merit, we are deeply saddened to hear of this family's terrible loss," Twitter said in a statement.
"Violent threats and the promotion of terrorism deserve no place on Twitter and, like other social networks, our rules make that clear."
A University of Notre Dame law professor and former US Treasury Department official said Fields may have trouble proving that Twitter did know or should have known its site was helping terrorists.
"We certainly know social media plays an important role in allowing ISIS to recruit foreign fighters," said Jimmy Gurule, a University of Notre Dame law professor and former US Treasury Department official specialising in terrorist financing," he said.
"But at the end of the day, is there a sufficient nexus between ISIS' use of Twitter and acts of terror?
"I'm not saying you can't show it but it's a real challenge."
An SBS report suggested the lawsuit may put pressure on other social media sites to remove posts associated with terrorist groups.
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New therapeutic strategy may help PTEN mutation symptomsOct 21, 2019
A new study offers a potential new approach to therapy for children with mutations in PTEN who exhibit autism, macrocephaly (an abnormally large skull), intellectual disability and epilepsy.
NIH grant to fund fetal growth restriction detection studyAug 6, 2019
Researchers were awarded $3.2 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop an improved way to evaluate umbilical venous blood flow using 3D and Doppler ultrasound techniques.
Folic acid reduces risk of defects linked to dolutegravirJul 23, 2019
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine suspected that folic acid could be a part of the puzzle of dolutegravir's negative side effects.
Visualization of placental microbes reveal sparse communityJun 6, 2019
Baylor researchers used imaging techniques to visualize sparse microbes in the placenta, which they and other researchers speculate may contribute to key functions in pregnancy, including immunity.
Researchers analyze impact of newborn genomic screeningJan 3, 2019
As genomic sequencing becomes increasingly popular and accessible, an effort called the BabySeq Project aims to explore the medical, behavioral, economic and ethical impacts of adding genomic sequencing to the roster of screenings for newborns.
Dr. Kjersti Aagaard awarded mentor award from NatureDec 19, 2018
Dr. Kjersti Aagaard has been honored with a 2018 Nature Award for Mentoring in Science.
Thanksgiving foods to avoid during pregnancyNov 13, 2018
For a mom to be, Thanksgiving Day may seem like a dream come true, but an expert at Baylor College of Medicine says pregnant women should avoid overindulging on Thanksgiving foods for the sake of themselves and their unborn babies.
$2 million grant to fund Pregnancy Resuscitation ProgramSep 6, 2018
Dr. Peter Nielsen received a five-year, $2 million grant to develop a program to train specialists and emergency responders who treat women who experience cardiac arrest during pregnancy.
Baylor, BillionToOne collaborate for non-invasive prenatal testMay 16, 2018
In an effort to provide safe testing to expecting mothers, Baylor College of Medicine is collaborating with BillionToOne in a joint clinical study of a novel, non-invasive blood test that detects sickle cell disease during pregnancy.
Marmoset monkey model of Zika virus infection offers new insights into the human conditionMay 3, 2018
A team of researchers found a novel marmoset model of human Zika virus infection offers new opportunities for better understanding of how the virus causes congenital disease in humans.
Formate prevents most folic acid-resistant neural tube defectsMay 1, 2018
New findings support the search for supplements that might prevent folic acid-resistant human neural tube defects in the future.
How to manage emotional rollercoaster of infertility Apr 18, 2018
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Potential new strategy to fight ovarian cancer foundMar 28, 2018
A new discovery opens the possibility of developing a novel way to fight ovarian cancer.
Talking to your teen about her growing bodyMar 22, 2018
Girls Elevated will aim to give parents and young girls tips on how to effectively talk about bodies changing to help make growing up a little easier.
Substance addiction changes mother's response to infantJul 26, 2017
Researchers found that a mother's brain response to her own infant is modified in the presence of substance addiction.
International genetics symposium launches in Hong KongMay 17, 2017
The world's top geneticists will come together for the first-ever Joint Symposium in Clinical Genetics May 19 - 21, 2017 in Hong Kong.
Baylor-Malawi partnership to expand obstetric services May 8, 2017
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Global Women's Health Initiative are increasing global health efforts in Malawi with a new maternity operating room in the capital city of Lilongwe.
Circadian clock changes can alter body's response to dietMay 2, 2017
Researchers have discovered that changing the circadian clock in mouse liver can alter how the body responds to diet and also change the microbes living in the digestive track.
Gene mutation may be linked to unexplained female infertilityMar 21, 2017
Researchers have uncovered a gene mutation that may provide answers to unexplained female infertility.
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Punjab Vidhan Sabha DEO Admit Card 2019: Did you register for the Punjab Legislative Assembly recruitment 2019? If you say yes then here is the fantastic news for you all as department is going to publish the admit card on its official web page. If you are one of the applicant searching for the call letter then download it from here. . if you want to attend the examination then download your Punjab vidhan sabha deo admit card as soon as possible. You are able to collect the call letter via online mode by providing credentials details of registration number and password. in this web page, our team has mentioned all the details so you won't have to face any trouble.
Punjab Legislative Assembly is going to recruit skilled and passionate aspirants for the opportunity of Clerk, data entry operator, sewadar, safai sewak, other posts job posts. Punjab Legislative Assembly is going to hire 28 applicants for various posts. To inform you all the candidates that if you find any doubt or query regarding admit card then contact our authorised person. As you are aware that to appear for the examination admit card play the vital role so, download it after it gets the release. Along with the Punjab Vidhan sabha deo admit card candidates are guided to bring one of the id proofs with them. All the candidates are requested to download the call letter before 10-15 days of examination.
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All the participants who are participating in the written exam can make their preparation easy and best with the help of test pattern. Candidates get the idea of how to prepare for this competitive examination. So don't worry at all here we have mentioned syllabus as well as exam pattern.
Just for verification purpose candidates have to bring one of the above mentioned id proof along with the call letter.
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