Noam Sienna
By Noam Sienna
-
Food The Mystery And Fascinating History Of Charoset
The Passover Seder includes a series of symbolic foods placed on a Seder plate, most of which are explained over the course of the meal: the matzo, the spring greens, the bitter herbs, the shankbone… But one element is left unexplained: the charoset, a paste-like mixture of fruit, nuts and spices, with recipes differing wildly…
-
Food The Mystery — And Incredible History — Of Charoset
The Passover Seder includes a series of symbolic foods placed on a Seder plate, most of which are explained over the course of the meal: the matzo, the spring greens, the bitter herbs, the shankbone… But one element is left unexplained: the charoset, a paste-like mixture of fruit, nuts and spices, with recipes differing wildly…
-
Food Why I’m Baking Key-Shaped Challah This Week
Schlissell challah made by Melinda Strauss, whose site, Kitchen Tested, offers a recipe and how-to. Photograph by Melinda Strauss Bread has been on my mind lately… It seems there’s nothing like a week of absence to make my love of complex carbohydrates grow stronger. As we begin counting until Shavuot, many will think of dairy…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Music Peter Gabriel’s not-so-secret Jewish weapon — and his little side project called King Crimson
- 2
Opinion I was wrong about Israel. I apologized. Then President Carter gave me a lesson in grace
- 3
News How a Florida bill could hurt Jewish studies
- 4
Film & TV From Israel, a thriller series so improbable that it has to be true
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish די קאָמפּליצירטע באַציִונגען צװישן שלום-עליכם און דער רוסישער קולטורThe complicated relationship between Sholem Aleichem and Russian culture
הגם קריטיקער האָבן נישט געהאַלטן פֿון זײַן ראָמאַן „די בלוטיקע שפּאַס‟ איז ער פֿאַרבליבן אין רעפּערטואַר פֿון סאָװעטיש־ייִדישע טעאַטערס ביז די 1940ער.
-
News Alarmed by their country’s political direction, more Israelis are seeking to move abroad
-
News ‘A challenge to the soul of man’: 80 years ago, Hollywood stars pleaded for Europe’s Jews
-
Culture Trader Joe’s has brand-new matzo — here’s what you can do with it
Engage
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
