Rob Eshman
Remembering Ruth Pearl, mother of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, and ‘strength incarnate’
Remembering Ruth Pearl, mother of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, and ‘strength incarnate’ who died July 20 at age 85
Never mind Ben & Jerry’s. Hannah Spiegelman’s ice cream has war and peace in every scoop
The Brooklyn entrepreneur creates ice creams based on historical figures whose lives were usually steeped in controversy.
American Jews: Israel needs your attention between wars, too
American Jews must fight to end the Israel-Gaza conflict, not to win it
How an upstart L.A. group crushed the Jewish internet
Jews United for Democracy and Justice became the ‘92nd street Y of the West’
How to celebrate Memorial Day? Read ‘Letters Home’
77 years after his brother Gilbert was shot down over German, Mel Sapiro finds, and publishes, his letters
What can we do to help the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Stay out of it
What if we on this side of the globe just … stopped?
The single most important statistic from the Pew Survey is about…food
If the idea is to activate and inspire the next generation, consider this: 72% of Jews of “sometimes or often cook or eat traditional Jewish food.”
You know what your seder plate needs this year? Uyghur salad.
Celebrate Passover with a Uighur salad
Everyone needs a go-to matzah ball soup recipe
The best matzah ball soup recipe is right here
Meyer lemon curd hamentaschen is the last best Purim recipe of 2021
This recipe is not just about coming up with a hamentaschen that is actually, you know, good. It’s about my nostalgia for the lemon hand pies I used to buy at the supermarket as a kid. They were junky, sugary calzones, shelf-stable, filled with a too-sweet lemon custard, and I loved them. Either they disappeared or I’m shopping in the wrong aisles, but just as well: the loss spurred me to create these far better hamentaschen in their image.