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Gluten-free Lemon Passover Cupcakes with Blackberry Jam and Lemon Glaze

This cake is not just for Passover, friends. And it’s not even just for the Jews. I’m convinced that this is one that everyone will like. I try to test out as many of my recipes as I can on my friends so that, by the time I share it, I have gathered as much (hopefully honest!) feedback as possible. ...

Gloria Feldt’s “No Excuses” says: “Know your history!”

This month, Gloria Feldt’s No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power hit book stores. A best-selling author, speaker and commentator on women, feminism, politics and leadership, Gloria Feldt is the former President of Planned Parenthood and currently on the Board of the Jewish Women’s Archive.No Excuses gets to the heart of the problem: Doors have been opened -many ...

Give Babs a Hand: Barbra Streisand Buys Three Torah Yads

After a decade-long $150 million campaign, the National Museum of American Jewish History officially opened November 14 in Philadelphia. The 100,000 square foot museum is on Philly’s Independence Mall.The new museum’s gala grand opening had hundreds of donors who paid between $1,500 and $5,000 to be part of the celebration with Vice President Joe Biden, Jerry Seinfeld and Bette Midler.I ...

Girls in Trouble: Telling women’s stories in a ‘language’ I understand

“The world is woven through us/I swear I wont forget/how her fingers hold the thread.” This is the final line of the song “Rubies,” off the amazing sophomore album “Half You Half Me” by the group Girls in Trouble, released on JDUB records earlier this month.Girls in Trouble may sound familiar because we blogged about it in 2009. If you ...

Girls are so much easier than guys!

To set up that is, I’m constantly thinking about people I can set up and I have come to the conclusion that girls are so much easier to set up than guys. In fact, while checking my hot bod out in spandex today I was thinking that the shidduch crisis may be more about the lack of guys who actually ...

Gimme Some Soul

I had the privilege of hearing and watching the McIntosh County Ringshouters perform last night at Second African Baptist Church and I swear, sometimes I wish I was Baptist. Not that I could ever be anything but loud, proud Jew or abide that whole “no drinking-no dancing” rule. But I deeply desire some more clappin’ and shouting in my worship. ...

Gilad Shalit’s First Ten Days of Freedom

I’ve been paying close attention to Gilad Shalit’s first days of freedom from captivity. The debate of whether the prisoner swap was the right choice rages on throughout Israel and beyond, but I’ve become more interested in how he adapts to freedom and how he responds to his new status as a celebrity.Perhaps what is most notable has been how ...

GigaOm: The Eight iPad Apps of Hanukkah

GigaOm’s Dave Greenbaum recommends these Eight iPad Apps for Hanukkah:1. Siddur HD ($19.99)2. Dreidel HD ($0.99)3. Jewish Radio ($0.99)4. Torah for iPad ($7.99)5. 123 Color (Hanukkah Edition, $1.99)6. Synagogues ($0.99)7. iTalmud – iPad Edition ($29.99)8. Talking Hebrew ($5.99)Read More: @ tzvee.blogspot.comReaders found more information by searching for:ipad jewish apps (4)Chanukah apps (1)Gigaom iPad apps (1)Ipad apps parsha (1)jewish apps 2010 rabbi jason miller (1)jewish studies apps apps (1)You might also like:iPad GPS and iPad BlackboardiPad Brings HappinessApple and Archaeology: iPad at PompeiiiPad’s Magical 4.2 ...

Giant Paper Flowers For Your Fall Table

Guess what? You’re in luck, I do think that giant paper flowers made in cremes and neutral tones look great right about now. Imagine a little candle light, some glitter, a little something rustic, like maybe some burlap or a table runner made out of pieces of aged wood, and you’ve got yourself a really unique look that while not ...

Gharmazians v. Giants and Jets on the American Dream

The article cites the Talmud siyyum as proof of traffic congestion, but that makes little sense to us.“Having the American Dream mall open on stadium event days will cause gridlock of proportions we have never experienced,” Jets and Giants spokeswoman Karen Kessler told WCBS 880′s Levon Putney.The New York Jets and Giants have both sued the developer, Triple Five, saying ...

Getting Close to Your Food Is Harder when Meat Is Involved

The first time I had my hands inside a still-warm turkey, I wondered just how far I was willing to take this business of getting up close and personal with my food.I was at an organic turkey farm an hour and a half north of San Francisco with two dozen other volunteers on a wet, cold winter morning in December ...

Getting caught taking the elevator on shabbos

Most of the folks I grew up with or knew on the upper west side took the elevator. My friends were of the “oops” variety, they would sneeze or nudge the button with their shoulder. Some people were of the “excuse me could you hit” types who would wait until someone showed up to take the elevator, hop in and ...