Author: Sara Wood

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. If you happened to be walking down the 800 block of Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn in the 1930s, you might have caught a whiff of horseradish in the air. From their Brooklyn apartment, two Jewish immigrants — Hyman and Tillie Gold, from Ukraine and Romania, respectively — […]

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(JTA) — Jews love baseball — there’s no denying it. But when the baseball season opened in April, most major league stadiums were operating at restricted capacities and offered a limited number of concession stands.  Not anymore. As the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination rate has soared, many of the ballpark restrictions have been lifted, and remain […]

(JTA) — When an auction house recently unveiled a new catalog of rare Jewish books and manuscripts, Rabbi Elli Fischer was among the many who rushed to examine the goods.  An Israeli-American university researcher, Fischer was particularly intrigued by an old handwritten journal — opening bid: $100,000.  The journal, known as a ledger, or “pinkas,” belonged […]

This article originally appeared on Alma. There are quite a few athletes who have been called the G.O.A.T., or greatest of all time: quarterback Tom Brady, basketball player Michael Jordan and swimmer Michael Phelps, just to name a few. But gymnast Simone Biles? She might just be the best of the bunch. I mean, come […]