Sophisticated and Delicious Passover Desserts

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March 2012

Holidays
Passover

Holidays
Passover

Sophisticated and Delicious Passover Desserts

by Libby Barnea

by Libby Barnea

Kosher desserts present a year-round challenge in their customary need to be non-dairy, if being served after a meal containing meat. Add to the culinary

Hadassah
President's Column

President’s Column: Back Where We Began

by Marcie Natan

Hadassah is now officially in its second century. On February 24, 2012, more than 1,400 people packed New York’s Temple Emanu-El for a Shabbat evening

Passover Delights for Kids

by Zelda Shluker

by Zelda Shluker

Ages 0 to 3 Dayenu! A Favorite Passover Song Illustrated by Miriam Latimer. (Scholastic/Cartwheel Books, 12 pp. $7.99) This board book is a cheery one—you can

Holidays
Passover

Passover 2012: New Haggadot

by Zelda Shluker

Every year, new Haggadot are published—yet there is never a surfeit of them. We welcome new versions in our eagerness to make our Seders personally

Passover 2012: Gift Guide

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

by Leah F. Finkelshteyn

Finding the perfect hostess gift when you are a guest at a Seder—beyond wine or a homemade dessert—can be a challenge. Haggadot are a good option,

Holidays
Passover

Music and Story for An Old-Fashioned Passover

by Zelda Shluker

Radio and Recordings The Witches of Lublin This hour-long radio drama for Passover, written by Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz and Yale Strom (with music by

Books
Personality

Interview: Jonathan Safran Foer

by Zelda Shluker

The New American Haggadah is a fresh take of ancient liturgy. It is edited by Jonathan Safran Foer and translated by Nathan Englander—both winners of Hadassah Magazine’s Harold U.

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Dec 6

Dec 6, 1889: #onthisday in #jewesshistory, Celia Feinman Adler Forman, known known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish theater” was born in New York City. ⁠
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Born as Tzirele Adler to British actress Dina Shtettin, who left her Orthodox family to join the theater world, and Jacob P. Adler, the Yiddish theater star who founded a theatrical dynasty. Among her half-siblings were noted actors Jay Adler, Luther Adler and Stella Adler. ⁠
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In 1919, Adler, a Zionist, helped open the first Yiddish Art Theater and wrote the two-volume study, “The Yiddish Theater in America." When “the Dybbuk” came to the New York Yiddish Art Theater, Adler starred as Leah, the woman who is possessed by a dybbuk. ⁠
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In 1937, Celia starred in the Yiddish film “Where Is My Child?” ("Vu iz mayn kind?”). She also gave one of the earliest theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor in her half-brother Luther Adler’s 1946 Broadway production of “A Flag is Born.” ⁠
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Three men were fortunate enough to wed the “dramatic soubrette”—so called by Carl Van Vechten. In 1915 Adler married actor Lazar Freed and later said “I do” to her manager, Jack Cone, in 1930. After her second husband’s death in 1959, she married New York businessman Nathan Forman. He died a week before Adler. ⁠
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Her last film was “Naked City” (1948) and the actress’ last Broadway show was the 1961 drama “Women in Horseradish.” In the aftermath of World War II, Adler gave performances to American troops in English and Yiddish. �⁠
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“Mrs. Forman was sustained by an enormous creative energy throughout her life and an unflagging devotion to Jewish drama, becoming its foremost female exponent,” Joan Cook wrote in a 1979 New York Times obituary. ⁠
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Celia died on January 31, 1979 after suffering a heart attack. A week before she died at the Hebrew Home, Adler performed a one-act monologue and was already preparing for her next act. She is buried in the Yiddish Theater Section of Mount Hebron Cemetery in NYC.

Dec 6, 1889: #onthisday in #jewesshistory, Celia Feinman Adler Forman, known known as the "First Lady of the Yiddish theater” was born in New York City. ⁠
⁠
Born as Tzirele Adler to British actress Dina Shtettin, who left her Orthodox family to join the theater world, and Jacob P. Adler, the Yiddish theater star who founded a theatrical dynasty. Among her half-siblings were noted actors Jay Adler, Luther Adler and Stella Adler. ⁠
⁠
In 1919, Adler, a Zionist, helped open the first Yiddish Art Theater and wrote the two-volume study, “The Yiddish Theater in America." When “the Dybbuk” came to the New York Yiddish Art Theater, Adler starred as Leah, the woman who is possessed by a dybbuk. ⁠
⁠
In 1937, Celia starred in the Yiddish film “Where Is My Child?” ("Vu iz mayn kind?”). She also gave one of the earliest theatrical portrayals of a Holocaust survivor in her half-brother Luther Adler’s 1946 Broadway production of “A Flag is Born.” ⁠
⁠
Three men were fortunate enough to wed the “dramatic soubrette”—so called by Carl Van Vechten. In 1915 Adler married actor Lazar Freed and later said “I do” to her manager, Jack Cone, in 1930. After her second husband’s death in 1959, she married New York businessman Nathan Forman. He died a week before Adler. ⁠
⁠
Her last film was “Naked City” (1948) and the actress’ last Broadway show was the 1961 drama “Women in Horseradish.” In the aftermath of World War II, Adler gave performances to American troops in English and Yiddish. �⁠
⁠
“Mrs. Forman was sustained by an enormous creative energy throughout her life and an unflagging devotion to Jewish drama, becoming its foremost female exponent,” Joan Cook wrote in a 1979 New York Times obituary. ⁠
⁠
Celia died on January 31, 1979 after suffering a heart attack. A week before she died at the Hebrew Home, Adler performed a one-act monologue and was already preparing for her next act. She is buried in the Yiddish Theater Section of Mount Hebron Cemetery in NYC. ...

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