Blog Entries by amanda pazornik

Go healthy this Chanukah with baked latkes

Dasha Wright Ewing

Leave it to Real Simple magazine to come up with a fast and healthy way to enjoy latkes, a staple of the Festival of Lights.

At only 50 calories per latke,…

Israel’s ‘DWTS’ to feature same-sex couple

I've never watched an episode of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars." I know, I'm that girl.

Don't be so quick to judge, though. I am definitely intrigued (not to mention mildly entertained) by the celebrities plucked to partner with the pros — case in point David Hasselhoff, Michael Bolton and…

Healthy and easy Passover lunches

It's no secret that my drawer of take-out menus is filled more than the shelves of my fridge.

And when Passover rolls around, I find myself replacing the bread, rice, noodles and other no-nos that often come with the take-out food with matzah.

Well, not this year.

Thanks to a…

Anne Frank gets YouTube channel

A YouTube channel has been created for Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who penned diary entries while hiding from the Nazis with her family in an Amsterdam attic.

Click here to access the YouTube channel.

The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam has set up the channel to make…

Sacramento Kings’ Casspi to participate in live chat Sept. 17

Sacramento Kings fans can log on to Kings.com and chat live with Omri Casspi - the first Israeli to play in the NBA - beginning at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 17.

The 6-foot, 9-inch forward is one of the newest players on the Kings' roster and was welcomed by Sacramento's…

S.F. hotel offers “sweet” deals for High Holy Days

The apples are sliced. The honey is drizzled. The mini honey cakes are rising. 

All you need is room service to deliver the Rosh Hashanah staples to your hotel room. 

It's all part of the Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf's sweet deals for the…

Jews set a sweet Guinness World Record

A recent article from JTA got me thinking about one of my absolute favorite movies - "The Great Race."

Written and directed by Blake Edwards, the 1965 slapstick comedy is a spoof of the first around-the-world automobile race from New York to Paris.

The flick stars Jack Lemmon as the…

Want more Maccabi? Here’s what you didn’t see!

While most Maccabi Games' organizers were getting some much-deserved zzzzzz's on the morning of Aug. 7, Games director Jackie Lewis was wide awake.

Stationed at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Lewis was greeting host families dropping off their out-of-town athletes headed for the airport. At 3 a.m.

Instead…

Something charitable for ‘everywun’

I literally just hung up the phone with Dan Jacobs, founder of Everywun, a socially conscious business headquartered in Palo Alto that allows, well everyone, to donate to their favorite charitable causes without dropping a dime. 

At this point, the conscientious reader would be saying, as I certainly did,…

Jeffrey Tambor shares a few arresting developments