How a Jewish mother from Flatbush became America’s most recognizable Italian on TV
For Levy's Rye and Alka-Seltzer, you didn't have to be Italian to play Italian — and Fran Lopate definitely wasn't
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Culture For 110 years, a proudly Jewish family has been a treasured purveyor of pork
How Teitel Brothers on Arthur Avenue keeps Jewish values and Italian food in the family
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Film & TV This movie tells the true story of a 6-year-old Jewish boy — baptized, kidnapped and raised by the Pope
Marco Bellocchio’s 'Kidnapped' is a sumptuous, scary retelling of the Mortara Affair
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Film & TV On screen, the beauty of Hasidic life transcends a cloistered world’s restrictions
Two films at the New York Jewish Film festival flout the usual dark depictions of Hasidism
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Food Searching for Jewish Sicily, I returned with two Hanukkah recipes
Caponata alla giudia and panelle make for a perfect holiday meal
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Food Of course the Italians make a better latke
Italian frico — potatoes, onion and cheese — is perfect for Hanukkah
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Food An Italian Jewish cookbook in time for Passover
To some, orecchiette is just a pasta shape. To Benedetta Jasmine Guetta, it’s infuriating. “The history of orecchiette literally enrages me,” she said of the pasta whose name translates as “little ears.” Italians tell her the pasta shape comes from the Puglia region, unaware that it originated with the Jews who settled there from the…
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Food Did Jews name this classic Italian cookie?
When the Italian bakery and cafe Il Fornaio opened its first American branch in San Francisco, I was hired as a cookie baker. The night before my first day on the job, I tried my first pot brownie, and then, rookie mistake, my second. I spent the night in a paranoid wakefulness, arrived at work…
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