Word: challah
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...tastebuds, nod, and move on to the next bite, Thus it is that American multiculturalism touts only the most obvious and easily accessible features of its various ethnic groups. Italian culture is tomato sauce and Sunday Mass and frescoes; Jewish culture is all about dreidels and yarmulkes and challah and concentration camps. This is what we know, the extent of what we see; and we, proud of our superficial knowledge of a culture other than our own, see little need to learn more. We have mastered the outward symbols of an ethnic group, but what lies underneath often escapes...
Still, during Sukkoth, the students don't seem dysfunctional. Berg has put them up for a spiritual slumber party. Laughter rings out, and the smell of pea soup and fresh-baked challah bread emanates from the kitchen. Says Erickson: "Kabbalah is like the spiritual refrigerator. If you're hungry...
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Dersh wants to have his challah and eat it too: He wants Israel (and Jewry) to be respected for their moral tradition (as they should be), but he also wants to judge Israel's actions by the standards of the Third World, if need be, not by the standards of the Jewish tradition...