Recently, while rearranging my cookbooks, I came across several devoted to cooking with kids. Reacquainting myself with these cookbooks, I realized school isn’t the only place for language arts, science or math skills and the kitchen isn’t only for cooking and eating. Cooking with your children or grandchildren in the kitchen is a great way of [ Read More...]

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center held a ceremony on Dec. 8, 2011, to thank Mr. Dick Weiland for his gift of $75,000 to the medical center. Weiland’s gift includes $25,000 for cystic fibrosis research, $25,000 for research of Crohn’s disease, and $25,000 for the Timothy James Rumpke Fund in the Heart Institute. Mr. Weiland said [ Read More...]

By Nate Bloom Contributing Columnist The SAG Awards The Screen Actors Guild Awards air (live) on TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, at 5PM, with an encore on TNT at 8PM. The Jewish individual nominees are: JONAH HILL, 28, best supporting actor, film, “Moneyball”; best actress, TV series: JULIANNA MARGULIES, 45, (“The Good Wife”) and KYRA [ Read More...]

Miss Corrine B. Arnold, Director of Camp Accomac, will lecture before the Council of Jewish Women, Thursday afternoon. While in the city, Miss Arnold will be the guest of Mrs. Mark G. Feder of 907 Lexington Avenue, Avondale. The bright young editor of the women’s club department of the “Commercial-Tribune” informs us that they will [ Read More...]

By Leon Loewenstine Contributing Columnist “Mr. Market is your business partner; you and he own equal shares in a private enterprise. Every day, without fail, Mr. Market offers to buy your interest in the business, or sell you his, at a certain price. Some days he is cheerful and optimistic, and offers an unreasonably high [ Read More...]

Dear Editor, The article by Dr. Erika Brown was filled with inaccuracies, misinformation and slander. It did in words what a small, non-representative group did in actions, i.e. commit a desecration of God’s Name. Who are these Haredim that the author slanders, these vile people? Well, I guess it’s me and my kids. I have [ Read More...]

Efrat, Israel — “Your children shall ask you, ‘What is this service to you?’ You must answer ‘It is the Passover service to G-d’” (Exodus 12:26,27). This week’s Biblical portion details the genesis of the first great holiday of the Hebrew calendar as well as of Jewish history, the Festival of Passover.  But what is [ Read More...]

Rabbi Avi Shafran Contributing Columnist It was over a decade ago, in the wake of a spate of terrible terrorist attacks on Jews in Eretz Yisrael, that the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah called upon Jews to recite chapters of Tehillim (they suggested chapters 83, 130 and 142) in shul after davening, followed by the short prayer [ Read More...]

By Sondra Katkin Dining Editor When dining out, I hope to encounter pleasure in many forms — great food, appetizing arrangement, good service and charming decor. Bangkok Terrace partners, Jennifer Boonyakanist and Tom Khlongnarog, have created a small restaurant that gives a large taste experience of authentic Thai. Boonyakanist’s dishes demonstrate a deft hand for [ Read More...]

Cedar Village Retirement Community Cedar Village offers living accommodations for seniors with a variety of needs: helping those who are independent and people needing some assistance. Cedar Village serves the Greater Cincinnati Community guided by a mission based on Jewish values. Their vision is that “aging will be a fulfilling and enriching experience for older [ Read More...]