By the time Prohibition began, Jews did make up a significant portion of the alcohol industryâmost often in the whiskey business, working as distillers or distributors. But a smaller cohort of Jews also made their mark as cocktail bartenders. ...
âWould your Jewish robot be like the Jetsonsâ Rosie, whoâd make perfect Shabbat challah and your auntâs amazing latkes?â ...
Accused of blasphemy for practicingâor even affirmingâtheir faith, Ahmadis still cling to the country they helped establish. ...
âWhen Jews gathered as religious communities, we didn't have to tolerate significant differences: When we disagreed, we just founded a ...
The long tradition of Jewish food, wrote culinary historian Gil Marks, has always been one of âtransforming and transferring,â and ...
f it werenât for the slice of Ebingerâs Blackout Cake wrapped in cellophane and sitting in the fridge behind a
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Even before the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-1943) knew of the âFinal Solution,â they understood that their story needed ...
Pour out Your wrath upon the nations that know You not, and upon the families that call not on Your
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For many Jews, Passover is about what you canât eat. Those who observe the holidayâs dietary rules must avoid chametz: wheat, rye, spelt, barley or oats. But because these ingredientsâwith the exception, sometimes, of oatsâalso happen to be the primary sources of gluten in our food, the Passover diet and ...
When Charlotte (called Lotte by her family) was eight years old, her mother died. At the time she was told the cause was influenzaâthe truth was kept a carefully guarded secret. ...
The epigram, âThey tried to kill us. We survived. Letâs eat!â sometimes serves as a tongue-in-cheek synopsis of Jewish holidays: Passover, for example, recounts the original Jewish survival story in an extended banquet punctuated by four cups of wine. ...
In every contact with serial bullies, victimizers or predators, we must carefully balance natural empathy for the person before us
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