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Bhad Bhabie and Lil Yachty invest $1 million in Jewish dating app Lox Club

June 6, 2021Mark Hershlag

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If you want this delectable Jewish pastry, you’ll have to go to Cleveland

June 4, 2021Sara Wood

This article originally appeared in The Nosher. Russian tea biscuits are so much a part of Cleveland’s landscape that locals are surprised to learn that these rugelach-like pastries are from their hometown. As a Clevelander, I didn’t discover the truth until I moved to several cities and Russian tea biscuits were nowhere to be found, […]

The New York Times called Isaac Bashevis Singer a Polish writer. Here’s how Wikipedia warriors made him Jewish again.

June 4, 2021Jesse Orine

(JTA) — Few things rile an online crowd like a mistake in The New York Times. One example is the Twitter account of a contemptuous troll dedicated to pointing out typos and grammar mistakes in the paper of record. But there’s another category of error — the botching of a fraught historical detail — that elicits […]

Black Orthodox Jews carve out their own space amid a national reckoning over race

June 2, 2021Sara Wood

(JTA) — For years, Chava Shervington would connect informally with other Black Orthodox Jews to celebrate Black history that often wasn’t discussed in their communities and to offer and receive advice on a range of topics – from what communities were the most inclusive to how to deal with their children being bullied at majority-white […]

These days David Hertz is a world leader in turning food into social change. He had to reconcile his Jewish identity first.

June 1, 2021Jesse Orine

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Chef David Hertz, one of the world’s leading food entrepreneurs tackling social issues, credits two places with inspiring his journey: There’s the kibbutz in Israel, and the favela in Brazil. At 18, after growing up in the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, he traveled to the Hatzerim kibbutz to live […]

Bill Maher defends Israel on his HBO show: ‘You can’t learn history from Instagram’

May 30, 2021Arsen Mayer

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Patti Smith and Julian Casablancas among over 600 musicians to call for boycott of Israel

May 27, 2021Arsen Mayer

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Willie Zabar brings you behind the lox counter on podcast about his family’s iconic store

May 27, 2021Sara Wood

(JTA) — For many 20-somethings, the experience of moving back into their parents’ home during the pandemic was common. For Willie Zabar, fourth-generation scion of one of New York’s most famous Jewish emporiums, the pandemic brought a different kind of homecoming: returning to the family business. A comedian and theater worker, Zabar, 28, had mostly […]

6 Jewish delis run by women that you need to know about

May 26, 2021Sara Wood

This article originally appeared on The Nosher. Not long ago, there were ominous reports about the fate of Jewish delis. Lovers of pastrami and chopped liver wrung their hands. While it’s undeniable that there are far fewer Jewish delis today than there were a generation ago — David Sax, author of “Save the Deli,” calls […]

Superman taught me how to be a Cuban Jew

May 26, 2021Sara Wood

This article originally appeared on Alma. I was Jewish to everyone but the Jews. That’s what it felt like to grow up the son of a Cuban mother and Jewish father. I looked exactly like my dad, with his curly hair and deep-set eyes, and I had his last name, Steinberg, stitched on the back […]