By Leah Koenig
The Jewish love for all things sour and pickled transcends cultural boundaries. In America, pickles continue to be a defining part of Jewish culture.
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By Goldie Morgentaler
MOTHER’S DAY: Goldie Morgentaler recalls sparring with her mother, the Yiddish writer Chava Rosenfarb, about English translations. It showed how much she cared about writing.
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By Paul Berger
MOTHER’S DAY: Allen Salkin wanted to do something special for his mother’s 70th birthday party. So he threw her very own art show, complete with gallery opening.
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By Lisa Amand
A.J. Jacobs experimented with myriad regimes hoping to turn back the clock on a dangerously sedentary lifestyle. He came up with ‘chewdaism.’
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By Lenore Skenazy
Glorious excess is what most people remember about schmaltz: the love that went into it and, especially, the innocence that allowed everyone to revel in it.
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By Susan Comninos
Jewish comic Dan Zevin is making hay out of his life progression from slacker to spouse to smitten dad. He’s turned his fumbling path through fatherhood into a book and more.
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By Karen Iris Tucker
There is no Jewish roadmap for how to properly mourn pets, nor any universal law or tradition for how to close the circle of a pet’s life, writes Karen Iris Tucker.
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By Leah Koenig
The fight over boycotting Israeli products at Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop hit home for Leah Koenig. She saw the battle through the prism of a jar of olive tapenade.
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By Ben Harris
Sandor Ellix Katz has traveled the world preaching the lost art of fermentation, which transforms ordinary foods into some of our most prized foodstuffs.
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By Deborah Kolben
Deborah Kolben and her husband planned to teach their daughter English and Hebrew. But raising a bilingual child proved more challenging than they expected.
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