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News Ruth Bader Ginsburg In Her Own Words
On Judah Benjamin, who was the first Jew nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court but declined and instead became a leader of the Confederacy: “Jews come in all sizes and shapes, and some are very good and some are not so good.” On the need for the Equal Rights Amendment: “I have three granddaughters. I…
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Food Selling Brooklyn Bagels To An Indian Chief
The Brooklyn Bagel Bakery was founded in Los Angeles in 1953 by Brooklyn transplant Seymour Friedman, whose son, Richard, took over the business in 1981, and ran the bakery until his retirement in 2015. The ad above illustrates the bakery’s strategy, early in its history, of attempting to appeal to non-Jewish consumers. Today it hangs…
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Food The New ‘Bagel’ Emoji Is Barely A Bagel And Needs To Be Banned
The Unicode Consortium, the mysterious not-for-profit tasked with making sure that emojis are consistent across smartphones and computers, likely expected that they would receive unanimous praise for the 157 new emojis that they unveiled on Wednesday. After all, previous rollouts of new emoji symbols have allowed for increased representation by users, with pictograms of things…
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Food The Bagel Emoji Is Here, And Is A Travesty
It’s too bad the “Frowning Pile Of Poo” emoji didn’t get approved, because that would be an appropriate response to the final design of Emojipedia’s sample bagel emoji. The bagel emoji doesn’t look like a bagel. It looks like an inner tube for rafting down rivers. Or a sombrero with the top cut off. At…
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Food Behold The Bagel Emoji
In 1999, the first emoji was created in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita. In the nineteen years since then, the concept of the emoji attained critical mass, exploding into Western society and beyond. But never did the engineers behind the brilliance of ‘dancing girl emoji’ or ‘angry face with horns emoji’ consider the sheer cultural significance…
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Food Witness The Creation Of The World’s Biggest Bagel And Lox Sandwich
If bagels at your local deli seem oversized, wait until National Bagel & Lox Day. Brooklyn-based appetizing giant Acme Smoked Fish Corp. is teaming with Big Apple bagel mavens Zucker’s Bagels this Friday, February 9, to build “the largest bagel and lox sandwich ever recorded.” Acme will host an open-to-the-public event at its Brooklyn facility,…
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Recipes Molly Yeh’s Bagel Stuffing For Thanksgiving
If your family is like my family, your Thanksgiving starts with turning on the Macy’s parade, pouring a glass of wine, and toasting a bagel. It doesn’t totally make sense, but when you consider that the parade quickly becomes background noise for a busy day of cooking and “tablescaping,” the wine and energy in the…
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Food Is Making Perfect Challah Worth The $625 For New Cookbook?
Sometimes we top challah with sesame seeds, other times with poppy seeds. Sometimes we add raisins or, at Rosh Hashanah, form it into a round. What we — and I’m going to go ahead and speak for the majority of Jews here — haven’t done is add kiwi juice to our dough. “Modernist Bread,” a…
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