By Elliot Cravitz
A personal quest for ethical kosher meat led one man to participate in a traditional sheep slaughtering. He shares his experience of the ritual known as schechting.
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By Michael Kaminer
With recipes, erotica and very funny cultural criticism, Bust has practically invented its own category of women’s magazine. Editor Debbie Stoller talks about what makes it tick.
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By Eddy Portnoy
Nikita Khrushchev was criticized by a famed philosopher for denying the reality of anti-Semitism. Twenty-five years earlier, a Jewish gangster was convicted after pleading: ‘I was framed!’
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By Larry Smith
What’s the essence of the Jewish father? That was the question the Forward posed to you in a contest to write six-word tributes to your fathers and grandfathers.
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By Leah Koenig
Traditional Jewish dishes like kugels and kasha can get tired. But with the help of a farmers’ market, these classic foods can be downright redemptive.
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By Lenore Skenazy
Unlike Jewish mothers, whose stereotypes fuel thousands of films and books, the Jewish father is an ill-defined thing. Which got Lenore Skenazy wondering: Why?
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By Eddy Portnoy
One-hundred years ago this week, the “Haman of Ellis Island” resigned. Twenty-five years later, the British government issued a plan to divide Mandate Palestine.
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By Sally Wendkos Olds
After her husband died, Sally Wendkos Olds sold the china set that he had acquired during World War II. Giving it up forced her to remember him without the help of ‘things.’
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By Nate Lavey
After 65 years in business an old-school Williamsburg hat store keeps Hasids and hipsters looking dapper with the help of a dedicated clientele and 100-year old hat-mending machines.
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By Eddy Portnoy
100 years ago, a leader of a gang of fake beggars was locked up; 75 years ago Sigmund Freud fled Vienna; 50 years ago Malcolm X drew the ire of Jewish leaders.
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Why a Rabbi Should Not Marry Outside the Faith
Tapping Into Growing Lure of Hidden Jewish Heritage
Montreal's First Jewish Mayor Michael Applebaum Hit With Corruption Charges
Getting In Face of Ultra-Orthodox on Need for Real World Education
Barbra Streisand Is Butt of Anti-Semitic Joke
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