The experience of Passover goes beyond flavor
By Leah Holzel
The pungent kick of horseradish on a fresh crisp sheet of matzah. The tender mouthfeel of a feather-light kneidel, moist with savory...
Is there herring in the Red Sea? My Passover tradition
By Justin Regan
Pesach, the festival of freedom (and bad macaroons), is a season of many traditions, like deep-cleaning your house, discovering quinoa and comparing...
Passover foods with fiber — Is That Possible?
By Linda Morel
Most Jews look forward every Passover to their family’s traditional foods: matzah balls, briskets, kugels and rich desserts.They enjoy matzah with a...
Second-Night Seders — Serve Sephardi Symbolic Foods
By Linda Morel
Whenever I’ve hosted seders on the second night of Passover, I’ve worried — probably needlessly — that I should offer the family...
Is it time to retire ‘The Merchant of Venice’?
When William Shakespeare penned “The Merchant of Venice” between 1596 and 1599, he considered it a comedy; couples Portia and Lorenzo and Nerissa and...
Savory spaghetti squash kugel is perfect for Passover
By Carole Lampel Mantel
There is an innate tendency to panic when Passover is approaching. What will we eat? I need to find recipes!
Nothing feeds...
Don’t recycle the Maxwell House Haggadah just yet
“The Rational Passover Seder, The Alperson Edition” by Dennis Prager. Edited by Joseph Telushkin. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Faith, 2022. 180 pages. $29.99.
“Night of Beginnings:...
A century after first Bat Mitzvah, Jewish coming-of-age still evolves
By Sasha Rogelberg
For some Jewish tweens, Judith Kaplan Eisenstein’s reality was their worst nightmare.
The evening before, Eisenstein’s father, Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan, told...
Jews and the NBA. What could be better?
Review
“By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy and an Unprecedented American Dream” by Dan Grunfeld. Chicago: Triumph Books, 2021. 288...
Entenmann wasn’t Jewish. But his cakes and cookies were family.
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Nothing seems so Jewish as a box of Entenmann’s cake or cookies.
“All of the Jews I know bought Entenmann’s,” wrote Nancy Kalikow...