Rob Eshman is a senior columnist for the Forward. Follow him on Instagram @foodaism and Twitter @foodaism or email eshman@forward.com.
Rob EshmanSenior Columnist
By Rob Eshman
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News When Jewish institutions hang a ‘For Sale’ sign
When American Jewish University announced last week that it planned to sell its campus, there were, as you might imagine, more questions than answers. How can a major Jewish institution put one of its greatest assets on the block overnight? Did the families who gave multimillion dollar gifts to expand and sustain the campus know…
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Food Korean chicken soup is also Jewish penicillin
There’s nothing uniquely Jewish about chicken soup. There, I said it. Everywhere on earth where there are chickens — which is everywhere on earth — people soupify them. Some versions are every bit as spectacular as the one you’ve come to know. And yes, depending on what you are hungry for at the time, some…
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Opinion How should the media cover the Goyim Defense League?
Should I even write about the Goyim Defense League, and if so, how? That question pops up every time the group does, which has been often. Last week its flyers blaming Jews for COVID appeared in the East Bay city of Danville. The week before, the same flyers littered San Francisco’s upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood….
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Opinion Here’s what to say about Israel and apartheid
The report from Amnesty Internationalthis week accusing Israel of “committing the crime of apartheid” against Palestinians within and outside Israel’s 1967 borders set off a storm of controversy. It also sent me to reread my new go-to response to Israel and the A-word, Danny Sokatch’s 2021 book, “Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for…
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Opinion Why the backlash against Bari Weiss?
Whether she wants the job or not, L.A. transplant Bari Weiss has become a go-to face of American Jewry. After her appearance last Friday on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” she faced a firestorm of criticism for her remarks about the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of it is from the cottage industry of Bari Weiss…
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News Louis Sneh, survivor of ‘train to nowhere,’ dies at 94
Louis Sneh, who survived Auschwitz to become a successful businessman, a great-grandfather and a tireless activist for Holocaust commemoration, died Jan. 16 at the age of 94. Sneh, who died at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., cheated death many times in his life. Raised in the Hungarian village of Mezőkovácsháza, he was 16 years…
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Fast Forward Woman invoked by hostage taker is Brandeis graduate with history of vicious antisemitism
If you want to understand why a man bent on freeing a Pakistani woman convicted of shooting American soldiers in 2008 would take four Jews hostage in 2022, you need to understand the conspiratorial mindset of a Brandeis University graduate named Aafia Siddiqui. The man who burst into Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas on…
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Recipes Our 10 best Jewish recipes of 2021
Food historians will look back at the pandemic as a time that pushed even more Americans to discover that meals can be something you make yourself. For those who already cooked regularly, quarantine, shortages and closed restaurants forced us to get even more creative, stretching ourselves into new techniques and cuisines. These 10 best recipes…
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