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Laurie Leiber's kits can help you make bagels that look this good.
Posted inSmall Bites

Kits to make those bagels yourself; Boichik launches ‘pink label’ cream cheese; etc.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 17, 2021February 22, 2021
Director Steven Spielberg speaks onstage during the Academy Awards, Feb. 9, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Posted inCelebrity Jews

Spielberg wins Genesis Prize; Evan Rachel Wood details antisemitic abuse by ex Marilyn Manson; etc.

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 17, 2021February 17, 2021
From the cover of “Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America” by Esther Amini.
Posted inBooks

Family histories open new windows on historical events

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman February 16, 2021February 17, 2021
Haman shooting an arrow at the zodiac to forecast the future in an 18th-century Dutch megillah. (Photo/Collection of Shalom Sabar)
Posted inColumns

Month of Adar: Milk the magic for all it’s worth

Lorelai Kude by Lorelai Kude February 16, 2021
Illustration of a donkey by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1649.
Posted inTorah

Rise above the trap of hating or blowing off ‘the other’

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg February 12, 2021
(Photo/Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inMixed & Matched

Can my baby have an Orthodox conversion?

Dawn Kepler by Dawn Kepler February 10, 2021
(Photo/snappygoat.com)
Posted inSeniors

As we age, a night of good Z’s isn’t as easy as A-B-C 

by Dr. Jerry Saliman February 9, 2021February 9, 2021
Orit Hendler Leib's Deja Vu Foods challah.
Posted inOrganic Epicure

In South Bay, Israeli chef builds pastry business around tastes of home 

Alix Wall by Alix Wall February 8, 2021February 8, 2021
"Meeting of Moses and Jethro" by Willem van Swanenburg, 1607.
Posted inTorah

A lesson about building bridges — something Jethro taught us 

Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein by Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein February 5, 2021February 4, 2021
From "My Name Is Sara," written by David Himmelstein.
Posted inFilm

A talk with my dad, screenwriter of ‘My Name Is Sara,’ his first Jewish film

Drew Himmelstein by Drew Himmelstein February 4, 2021

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