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Fast Forward How learning Yiddish can get you a free bagel next Tuesday
If you weren’t already interested in learning Yiddish, Duolingo may have given you another reason, — free bagels! That’s right, in honor of the launch of a new Yiddish course on the popular language-learning platform, Duolingo is offering to pay for your bagel order at a handful of stores around the country when the course…
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Food Kaddish for Knishes? Post-pandemic, Jewish delis face an uncertain future
“Once this whole thing is over,” my father declared, early in January, “one of the first places we have to go is to Sammy’s!” He was speaking, of course, about Sammy’s Roumanian Steakhouse, the legendary restaurant on New York’s Lower East Side known for its chopped liver, garlicky karnatzel and blackened skirt steaks, leaden latkes,…
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Culture Did antisemitism forge the bagel we know and love?
For a humble circle of bread, the bagel is divisive. Even that statement would probably set someone off on a rant (bagels are not just circular bread!). People could go to war over whether gimmicky styles like chocolate chip or rainbow bagels are delicious or disgraceful. But everyone agrees that boiling the bagel, which creates…
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Culture New Jersey has the best bagels. Just ask the women behind @NJGov.
With the recent insurrection in the U.S. Capitol, the second impeachment of President Trump and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, you may have overlooked another event of national — nay, global — importance. But Pearl Gabel and Megan Coyne are here to remind you: National Bagel Day is here, and you should probably plan to celebrate…
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Food It’s official: Expert says best bagel is whatever you grew up with
I ate a bagel for breakfast this morning. It was a St. Viateur bagel from Montreal, shipped to the supermarket in Toronto, sliced, frozen, and toasted, then shmeared liberally with Western Dairy cream cheese. I split it with my son. It was perfect. At least for me. Since that most glorious day in Jewish history,…
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The Schmooze Timothée Chalamet Handed Out Bagels On The Red Carpet On Rosh Hashanah
Like an inverse Santa Clause, Timothée Chalamet — diminutive, hairless, Jewish — arrived at the red carpet for the premiere of his new Netflix film “The King” on Tuesday night, holding aloft a sack of gifts. The 23-year-old star of “Call Me By Your Name” came bearing bagels, which he proceeded to distribute to the…
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Fast Forward Ancient Humans Ate Tiny Bagels On Special Occasions, Scientists Say
Tiny bagels may have been on the menu in the Bronze Age. Pieces of 3,000-year-old charred bread were recently discovered in an archaeological site in Austria, and they resembled the remains of a small broken bagel, The New York Times reported. At the site, which sits near the Slovakian border and thrived around 1500 to…
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Food Hey, The Weird Bagel Mangling Was Actually Invented By Jews
America today is more divided than ever in living memory. The country faces a very real threat of civil war. We’re speaking, of course, of the rising trend of slicing bagels vertically like bread. The incomprehensible treatment of bagels was brought to the attention of the greater internet this week when a Missouri-based office worker…
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