Friends of my parents told me this story many years ago. I love it and have never forgotten it. Geraldine (Jewish) was bringing her boyfriend Bob (not Jewish) home to meet her parents for the first time. They were going to have a traditional Sunday breakfast: bagels, cream cheese, white fish etcetera. As everyone began…
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February 9 is National Bagel Day — a whole day devoted to a food that, more than any other, is probably the definitive, most widely recognized Jewish food item. Something about it makes it easily translatable across cultural divides, so in that sense it’s become a distinctly American food, enjoyed and adopted by all. What…
It took Robert Kraft a few seconds to remember the name of his favorite bagel. “What do you call it, the brown bagel,” the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots said during a recent phone interview, shrugging off suggestions of dark rye or pumpernickel. His favorite bagel is whole wheat. But that only tells…
Jerusalem — Scoff if you like, but this is something I do. I’m a Jewish journalist. We care about our food. At the end of my White House interview last year with President Obama, I asked him for his favorite flavor of bagel. How could I not ask the same thing of the prime minister of…
Three firefighters, three civilians and two police officers were injured on Wednesday after a natural gas leak caused a pair of explosions at a bagel shop in Portland, Oregon, Portland Fire & Rescue said. The blasts obliterated the Portland Bagelworks restaurant, triggering a four-alarm fire that sent a large plume of black smoke into the…
How does a bagel explain the physics theory that helped a British Jewish professor win a share of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics? More than you might think. Michael Kosterlitz, who is Jewish, shared the prestigious prize with colleagues David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for revealing unusual states of matter, leading to advances in…
Two weeks ago, my family and I spent a week in the Laurentian mountains, an hour north of Montreal. We were there for a week-long Jewish music and culture festival called KlezKanada, which has become one of our favorite annual excursions. (Brisk dips in a gorgeous lake, the convergence of the world’s most renowned klezmer…
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