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...interest in Judaism, despite the fact that very few Jews still live there. Only 300,000 Polish Jews out of a prewar population of 3.5 million survived the Holocaust, and nearly all of those emigrated in the 1960s under pressure from the communist government. Barely 5,000 remain. Yet kosher food, Yiddish theater and Jewish-history studies are becoming more popular...
Perhaps the oddest indication of Polish interest in things Jewish is a craze for kosher drinks. The hottest-selling alcoholic beverage is ``kosher vodka,'' with a label showing bearded rabbis in prayer shawls and Polish names in Hebrew-like lettering. There is also kosher beer and even kosher mineral water, not generally required of even the most orthodox of Jews, who are content to drink tap water...
...across more than 1, 000 square miles, Los Angeles is not unlike the elephant of the fable that puzzled the blind men . How can one possdibly define a place that gave the world Mickey Mouse and Marilyn Monroe, the Watts riots and the Mansion murders, not to mention the kosher enchilada? Los Angeles is a metropolis of 85 cities with no "center of gravity", as Peter Theroux writes in one of the witty, observant little essays that make up Translating LA (Norton; 271 pages; $21). Its user- unfriendly downtown center resembles Gertrude Stein's famous description of Oakland. (Where...
Rosovsky Hall provides dining space for 150 students, room for additional offices, a kitchen with accommodations for kosher cooking which separates milk and meat, and a library big enough to hold all of Hillel's books in one place...
That the food was bad goes without saying, but this flight broke new ground in even this area. We were traveling to Poland as part of a Jewish youth group program, so our travel agent ordered all of us kosher meals. The means we got were more than kosher: Boxes if Passover Matzo. We checked our calendars; nope, it was June...