New and Noteworthy
New and Noteworthy Conservative Judaism: The New Century Neil Gillman Behtman House. 1993. 228 pp.. S18. paperback Perhaps the question that has most troubled the Conservative movement through...
...The book includes photographs documenting the growth of Conservative Judaism from late nineteenth century Europe to the present...
...Pictures of family members with whom she associates certain dishes spice up Hirsch's cookbook, as do glossy, mouth-watering photographs of the dishes by Alison Miksch...
...25.00 Your mother's tattered and stained sisterhood cookbook didn't look anything like Anita Hirsch's clever Our Food: The Kosher Kitchen Updated...
...Gillman pinpoints several of these issues: the demand to ordain women, the pressure to accept gay and lesbian rabbis, the movement's ambivalence toward Israel, and the recognition that its members are largely unobservant and uncommitted...
...paperback Perhaps the question that has most troubled the Conservative movement through the years has been, "What do we stand for...
...He writes that these are "...actually a symptom of a much deeper problem: the failure of our Movement to articulate a coherent ideology which would enable us to confront issues of this kind in a clear and consistent way...
...A trained nutritionist, Hirsch takes classic Ash-kenazi recipes and transforms them into healthy, nouveau cuisine...
...Yet Gillman asserts that these tensions are appropriate and necessary growing pains for a movement in the process of self-definition...
...Included also are sections on keeping a kosher and healthy kitchen, and a list of symbols designating kashrut...
...128 pp...
...Our Food: The Kosher Kitchen Updated Anita Hirsch...
...Stuffed cabbage and tzimmes have never looked so good...
...Rabbi Neil Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary, offers an historical account of the movement and an analysis of the issues and conflicts that are forcing Conservative Judaism to define itself...
...photos by Alison Miksch Doubleday...
...Fat-friendly knishes, light /atkes and low-cholesterol coffee cakes accompany less traditional kosher cookbook recipes like pita pizza, black bean chili, and jicama and green bean salad...
Vol. 18 • December 1993 • No. 6
