Devra Ferst
By Devra Ferst
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Fast Forward Heinrich Himmler’s Personal Letters Exposed for First Time
Excerpts from the private letters and diaries of Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Nazi Gestapo and the SS, were published for the first time this weekend in Israeli paper Yediot Aharonot and the German paper Die Welt. The archive “touches on one of the central questions that researchers of the Holocaust grapple with: how human…
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Food Snowy Nights in the Midnight Kitchen
Molly Yeh Whenever it snows I am a gleeful. I don’t care about tomorrow’s bad commute, slushy sidewalks or the big scar on my left knee from slipping during an icy walk two years ago. Snow days as an adult are rare, but I’ve managed to salvage that childhood excitement by turning to my kitchen,…
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Recipes Jewish Soups To Warm You Up
When you turn on the weather and hear phrases like “dangerous deep freeze” and “the coldest day on record” there’s really only one thing to do — drag your biggest, heaviest soup pot out of the cupboard, fill it with your favorite meats and veggies and start simmering something, warm, fragrant and delicious. While we…
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Food Hanukkah Gifts You’ll Want for Yourself
Leave the bad bottle of wine at your local liquor shop and pick up one of these Israeli treats for your holiday party host. We promise, they’ll be grateful. Oh, and it would only be right to get yourself one too, right? A Nutty Spread No trip to Israel is complete without a slice of…
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Food Mason and Mug: A Very ‘Brooklyn’ Kosher Restaurant
Let’s face it: If you’re a young, hip, kosher-keeping Jew living in New York City, there aren’t many places to get a really good bite of food and a drink — not to mention go on a date with that guy or gal you just met on JDate. Itta Werdiger Roth and Sasha Chack are…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Jerusalem’s Best Hummus, NYC’s Deli Truck
Where can you get the best hummus in Jerusalem? The Wall Street Journal has a hummus bowl for every type of hummus lover. [Wall Street Journal] A Jewish love of coffee goes back centuries — read about it during your morning Cup o’ Joe. [Moment magazine] After trailing behind Toronto and D.C., New York City…
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Food New York Pop-Ups Deliver the Country’s Most Exciting Jewish Fare
In the late 1800s a saloon owner named Kate Hester purportedly defied Pittsburgh’s new licensing laws by running a secret establishment where locals in the know could drink and enjoy the company of friends and strangers. When the evening’s festivities got too loud — as the story goes — Hester would hush the crowd by…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Plans White Supremacist Town in North Dakota
Neo-Nazi Craig Paul Cobb, 61, has been buying up property in Leith, North Dakota to convert the town of 19 people into a bastion of white supremacy dubbed Cobbsville. Residents would be required to fly a “racialist banner” such as Neo-Nazi flag at all times and to “import more responsible radical hard core [white nationalists].”…
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