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The Jewish Food Critic Who Rules Los Angeles

It’s not uncommon for new residents of Los Angeles to receive well worn copies of Jonathan Gold’s Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles filled with dog-eared pages and marginalia. The Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic’s collection of restaurant reviews is a bible of local gourmands, and a fitting welcome gift. Gold grew up in a liberal, reform […]

By Avishay Artsy

Help David Duchovny and Shalom The Pig Get to Israel by Sundown

Maybe you first fell for David Duchovny as the DEA Agent in Twin Peaks. Or you tracked his every move in The X-Files as the steamily troubled Agent Fox Mulder. Either way, it’s hard not to feel smitten all over again when you read his allegorical new book called Holy Cow. It’s a grim but […]

Jews Ask: Here’s Your Hemp, What’s Your Hurry?

“Drug policy reform is [already] a Jewish value,” says Le’Or, the Portland-based Jewish nonprofit spearheading the Jewish community’s push for marijuana legalization in the US. Not to worry, you could be excused for not recalling the parsha that allows industrial hemp farming. (It doesn’t exist.) Le’Or’s directors, husband-and-wife team Claire and Roy Kaufmann, mean to say […]