The TV return of the jewish american princess
When the TV show Will & Grace first hit the air in 1998, it was radical in many ways. Now, when it returns in 2017, it will have a new set of expectations on...
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These days there are smartphone applications for pretty much anything, from ordering food to finding a date to reporting anti-Semitic incidents.
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Living in the present while building for a future
An open road on a beautiful day, with your kids in the back seat, maybe even a picnic lunch; what could be more perfect?
I will always wonder what Tali Hatuel, eight months pregnant, with...
Festival celebrates Jewish food culture with community
Lieba Cohen of Hagerstown, and her husband Jerry, can be found helping out every year during the Jewish Food Festival hosted by Congregation B’nai Abraham in downtown Hagerstown.
She is usually helping with the bakery...
The Kosher Gourmet
Are you up for some kitchen therapy? You're in - if you like Indian food, but don't cook that much of it at home, either because it calls for ingredients you don't have or...
Developing a Children camp to save the memory of Sosua
This Sunday is Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), a day to collectively bow our heads and remember the millions of lives taken during the Holocaust. Given the current political climate in the US and...
Deviating from Torah law leads to consequences
This week’s Torah reading contains both narrative history and dogmatic Jewish halakha. It relates to us the tragic story of the deaths of the two older sons of Aaron, when they apparently willfully mishandled...
SAVAGE: Finding out I’m not Jewish: reflections on cultural identity
This bit of news is only funny because for most of my life I believed, with good reason, that I was a Jew.
It’s a story, but we have time.
My father left home when he...
PBS cooking host Pati Jinich’s Mexican-Jewish Passover
Celebrity chef Pati Jinich grew up in Mexico City, where she spent Shabbat dinners at her bubbe’s house.
“When we walked into her house,” Jinich fondly recalls of her grandmother, “the first thing she had...
Mexican MasterChef Contestant Refuses to Eat Her Unkosher Concoctions, For Now
A Jewish contestant on the Mexican version of MasterChef Junior didn’t push her faith to the back burner, even when it meant cooking with a treyf ingredient.
Batia Bresca, a 13-year-old from Mexico City, recently made the...