Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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News Joseph Elliot Elowsky, 85, Drove ‘Harem’ Of Senior Citizens To Their Appointments
(JTA) — Joe Elowsky’s spring-making company was beloved by its employees, many of whom had been hired because Elowsky was committed to employing people with special needs. One former worker, who had been diagnosed as emotionally disturbed, came back every year with his wife and child to visit his former boss at the company’s Long…
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News Bess Soffer, 68, Jewish Community Leader Whose Last Words, By FaceTime, Were ‘Group Hug’
(JTA) — Over 1000 people logged in for Bess Soffer’s Zoom funeral. Her children knew she was beloved, but even they were surprised by the turnout. “I knew she was a good friend, but I didn’t know that depth of friendship that she had with so many people all over the country. Everyone felt important…
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News Meet a Jewish woman who lives in the former stronghold of the Aryan Nations
(JTA) — Andie Bond can almost see the one-time bastion of the American neo-Nazi movement from her house. Bond, 34, is from St. Louis, Missouri, a city with a robust Jewish population. Now she’s one of just two Jews living in Wallace, Idaho, a town of fewer than 1,000 residents that abuts the Aryan Nations…
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Fast Forward This NYC ice cream parlor is famous for wild flavors. It’s surviving the pandemic by catering to Jewish customers.
NEW YORK (JTA) — On a frosty Tuesday in January, Mark Becker strode into Max and Mina’s ice cream shop holding a netted green bag filled with fresh oranges. “Maybe he’s making orange ice cream,” his brother Bruce said from behind the counter. Max and Mina’s flavors tend to change with the seasons, the Jewish…
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News Rabbis in DC and beyond rush to calm congregants on edge after a day of mob chaos at the Capitol
(JTA) — Ruth Friedman could tell that Wednesday’s pro-Trump protests in Washington, D.C., might be volatile when she boarded a plane home to D.C. from her grandmother’s funeral on Tuesday. The flight was full of people in MAGA gear on their way to Washington to protest the results of the presidential election, as President Donald…
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News Suzanne Tauber, 79, Avid Reader And Beloved Grandmother
(JTA) — Suzanne Tauber smoked her last cigarette on the day her daughter told her she was pregnant. After hearing the news that she was going to be a grandmother, she decided to give up her long-time habit permanently. Her daughter, Stacy Meisel, remembers the moment like it was yesterday. It was 1993 and her…
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Food Discovering The Black Sea’s Long-Buried Jewish Cuisines
Odessa, for an urban metropolis, is pretty quiet. That’s how writer Caroline Eden describes the city, established in 1794, which exists on the fringes of what was once the former Soviet Union, where the spoken language is a Yiddish-inflected Russian and the cuisine is an eclectic mix of Jewish and Italian chow. Here places like…
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Food What Questions To Ask Your Butcher About Your Brisket Cut This Passover
It took about a year from start to finish to write ‘The Brisket Chronicles,’ but I’ve been “thinking about brisket for most of my professional writing life,” says Steve Raichlen, who was inducted into the Barbecue Hall of Fame in 2015, for his bestselling Barbecue Bible cookbook series and television show Project Smoke. “For me…
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