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For those who feel it’s not Shavuot without cheesecake, here are two recipes that have come our way.

The first is from Jamie Geller from quick&osher.com and author of “Quick & Kosher: Recipes From the Bride Who Knew Nothing” (Feldheim Publishers, 2007).

Chocolate Chip Cheesecake

Ingredients:

1 1/2 (8-oz.) packages cream cheese, softened

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed

2 eggs

1 tsp. pure vanilla extract

1 cup chocolate chips

1 (9-inch) prepared chocolate or plain graham cracker crust

1/2 cup pie filling (or 1/2 cup sour cream), optional

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Using an electric mixer at medium speed, mix cream cheese and sugars together until smooth. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing into batter. When fully blended, mix in vanilla.

Using a silicone spatula, fold in chocolate chips.

Pour into graham cracker crust.

Bake for 40 to 50 minutes or until just slightly jiggly in the center. The cake will finish cooking from the retained heat after you take it out of the oven.

Chill in refrigerator at least 4 hours before serving.

Before serving top with either a layer of sour cream or your favorite flavor pie filling, if desired.

Tips: If you want to transform this into a chocolate swirl cheese cake, squirt chocolate syrup on top and use a knife to create a zigzag swirl design before putting it in the oven. Not big on chocolate? Just omit the chips and it’s a classic cheesecake.

Here’s a sugar-free recipe from Stacey Harris, who was diagnosed with diabetes while training to be a pastry chef. Her book “The Diabetic Pastry Chef” (Pelican Publishing 2010) includes more than 200 diabetic-friendly recipes for sweets, along with tips, substitution methods, and recipe modifications. Every recipe also includes a carb count and nutritional facts, including calories. Harris’ baking techniques are featured in the American Diabetes Association’s magazine, Diabetics Forecast.

Amaretto Cheesecake

Ingredients:

1 cup crushed low fat graham crackers

3 tbsp. butter, melted

4 (8-oz.) pkg. light cream cheese

Dash salt

1 tsp. vanilla extract

4 eggs

1 1/3 cups Splenda

1/2 cup amaretto

2 cups light sour cream

1/2 cup sliced almonds

Preparation:

Combine graham cracker crumbs and butter. Press mixture into bottom and sides of a buttered 10-inch springform pan. Set aside. Beat together cream cheese, salt, vanilla, eggs, Splenda, and amaretto. Fold in the sour cream. Pour into crust. Bake 45 minutes in a preheated 375-degree oven or until set. During the last 10 minutes of baking, add almonds evenly to top of cheesecake.

Cool. Store in refrigerator.

Yield: 12-16 servings.

 
 
 
Shira Kallus posted 02 Jun 2010 at 03:18 PM

Jamie works for Kosher.com and all of her wonderful recipes can be found at http://www.kosher.com! You can also follow her as she blogs daily on blog.kosher.com.

 

Reinterpreting Anne Frank

Of the many enduring and iconic images of the last century, Einstein, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Churchill and FDR leap immediately to mind.

Pause for a moment and then add the name of Anne Frank to this select gallery of the famous, the powerful, and the uplifting. And note her place in this pantheon with added emphasis on Yom Hash­oah, just weeks after her yahrzeit.

Frank would have been 84 had she not died, just shy of her 16th birthday, in Bergen-Belson. The typhus epidemic that killed her overwhelmed the concentration camp in 1945, during the waning weeks of World War II. Her remains rest in a mass grave with thousands of other victims of the Shoah at a site that now bears a memorial to her and her sister, Margot, and has become a magnet for pilgrims of all faiths vowing never to forget.

 

‘50 Children’

Documentary tells the story of a couple who went to Europe to save young Jews

Liz Perle was 19 when her grandfather died and 33 when her grandmother passed away.

Although Perle had a basic knowledge of what the Philadelphia couple had done just before World War II, it was not until decades later that she read her grandmother’s unpublished memoir closely and discovered that her grandparents were heroes.

“Gilbert and Eleanore Kraus simply did not talk about this at all once they resumed their lives,” said Perle’s husband, Steven Pressman, director of the documentary “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus” to be shown on HBO on April 8. “It was not their style to do that.”

Although the Krauses’ two children knew their parents had helped rescue Jewish children from the Holocaust, it was left to the grandchildren to share the story with the public.

 

Yom Hashoah commemorations

This year, Yom Hashoah falls on Sunday, April 7. There are many community observances. Here is a list, correct as of press time, showing the various offerings.

 

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‘50 Children’

Documentary tells the story of a couple who went to Europe to save young Jews

Liz Perle was 19 when her grandfather died and 33 when her grandmother passed away.

Although Perle had a basic knowledge of what the Philadelphia couple had done just before World War II, it was not until decades later that she read her grandmother’s unpublished memoir closely and discovered that her grandparents were heroes.

“Gilbert and Eleanore Kraus simply did not talk about this at all once they resumed their lives,” said Perle’s husband, Steven Pressman, director of the documentary “50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus” to be shown on HBO on April 8. “It was not their style to do that.”

Although the Krauses’ two children knew their parents had helped rescue Jewish children from the Holocaust, it was left to the grandchildren to share the story with the public.

 

Yom Hashoah commemorations

This year, Yom Hashoah falls on Sunday, April 7. There are many community observances. Here is a list, correct as of press time, showing the various offerings.

 

Reinterpreting Anne Frank

Of the many enduring and iconic images of the last century, Einstein, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Churchill and FDR leap immediately to mind.

Pause for a moment and then add the name of Anne Frank to this select gallery of the famous, the powerful, and the uplifting. And note her place in this pantheon with added emphasis on Yom Hash­oah, just weeks after her yahrzeit.

Frank would have been 84 had she not died, just shy of her 16th birthday, in Bergen-Belson. The typhus epidemic that killed her overwhelmed the concentration camp in 1945, during the waning weeks of World War II. Her remains rest in a mass grave with thousands of other victims of the Shoah at a site that now bears a memorial to her and her sister, Margot, and has become a magnet for pilgrims of all faiths vowing never to forget.

 
 
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