Judaism possesses an elaborate system that determines what foods Jews can eat and which ones can be eaten together. Rafael Ben-Ari/Photodisc via Getty Images The end of August inaugurated the Hebrew ...
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner has spent over a decade working as a writer in New York City. She currently covers all aspects of food, dining, travel and lifestyle trends and the intersection of culture, ...
If you are looking for authentic offerings of traditional Ashkenazi foods, you have many wonderful options in the 914. What qualifies a dish as Jewish is somewhat of a mystery, wrapped in a kreplach.
The Jewish New Year celebration of Rosh Hashanah is almost here, and together with Yom Kippur, which falls shortly afterwards, they’re referred to as the Jewish High Holidays (or High Holy Days). Rosh ...
Iconic Jewish foods are getting a glow-up from brands that want to move beloved staples like matzo and matzo ball soup from the Kosher aisle where a limited population currently looks for them to ...
It’s late morning in Warsaw, and we pick a place—nothing special—to have breakfast. “Look,” I say to my husband and children, quickly scanning the menu, making my way through various preparations of ...
“We honeymooned at Kutsher’s in late October 1968,” Barbara Gelman recalled in an oral history for the Borscht Belt Museum. “When we ordered dinner, the waitress enumerated all the desserts, and my ...
Alan Silberberg is an award-winning author, cartoonist and children’s TV creator, whose latest book is “The Bagel Who Wanted Everything.” This funny, heart-warming story of a plain bagel’s quest to be ...