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Rachel Ringler

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Left: A typical plate at Bo.Re.Kas Sephardic Kitchen in Sherman Oaks, California, March 27, 2025. (Philissa Cramer); Right: Ben Siman Tov stands behind the counter of his New York City boureka shop, Buba, during its soft launch, March 30, 2025. (Rachel Ringler)
Posted inFood

From L.A. to NYC, can Israeli bourekas enter the American fast-food mainstream?

by Rachel Ringler April 2, 2025April 4, 2025

(JTA) — When Gal and Uzi Waizman opened a shop in their Los Angeles neighborhood that was solely devoted to bourekas, a stuffed pastry ubiquitous in their native Israel, they […]

Joan Nathan at a National Yiddish Book Center event in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 2011. (Photo/JTA-Dina Rudick-The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Posted inJewish Life

Joan Nathan, pioneering Jewish food maven, dishes all in her new autobiography

by Rachel Ringler April 15, 2024April 15, 2024
Artist Yael Kanarek (Photo/Gili Getz)
Posted inArt

Israeli American artist creates ‘regendered’ version of the Hebrew Bible

by Rachel Ringler February 29, 2024March 6, 2024
Eugene Ginter makes the chocolate sandwich that his mother made for him after he was liberated from Auschwitz. (Photo/Ellen Silverman)
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New cookbook showcases Auschwitz survivors’ recipes — and resilience

by Rachel Ringler and JTA September 1, 2022

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