Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year.
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Food The Best Loaf: Bay Area Challahs
The San Francisco Bay Area has one of the largest Jewish populations in North America. But unlike communities in places like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto, it has no identifiably Jewish neighborhoods filled with Jewish bakeries, butchers, delis and food shops. The lucky few who live near one of the local Jewish bakeries…
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Recipes When Rosh Hashanah Dinner Travels to China
As rich as the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition is, twice each year I wish I had descended from Sephardim. The first time is, of course, on Passover, when Sephardic tradition allows for grains. I imagine Passover breakfasts of sweet corn pancakes, and big, filling dinners of fried rice with spring’s first peas and scallions, and Passover…
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Food The Next Generation of Challah
People tend to get cultish about challah. Ask a group of friends where to find the best ritual Sabbath bread, like I recently did on Facebook, and within minutes a torrent of impassioned odes to various bakeries will flow forth. The success of these bakeries — like The Challah Fairy and Silver Moon Bakery in…
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Food Our Virtual Bubbe Answers Your Rosh Hashanah Cooking Questions
We asked you, our readers, to send us your Rosh Hashanah cooking questions to our virtual bubbe, cookbook author and food writer Adeena Sussman. She shares her kitchen wisdom, tips for making your first brisket, which new fruits to serve and how to get your holiday cooking done ahead of time. For more questions and…
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Food The Holiday Pour
Picking out wines to pair with holiday feasts can be tricky — especially when there are so many dishes on the table. We asked five wine and food experts what wines they serve for Rosh Hashanah and which classic dishes to pair them with. The bottles they highlighted are diverse by various measures, but there…
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Food The New Challahs on the Block
With Rosh Hashanah comes the eternal question: Which challah can do justice to your holiday table? Living in New York, one has no lack of options. In fact, there may be too many choices. There are, of course, the beautiful, glossy loaves from traditional bakeries that have stood the test of time, but there are…
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Life Feeling Lost — Then Found — During High Holidays
This Tisha B’av I joined a few colleagues and about a hundred Muslims and Jews for an interfaith break fast at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, NY. As I sat at the table and ate the delicious halal and kosher food that was served, I realized that the two religions share much more than most…
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Food The Best Loaf: Challahs in the Holy Land
For bakery fiends in Israel, choosing the perfect combination of fluffy, soft, delicately sweet and lightly crispy challah for Rosh Hashanah can be a real challenge with all of the wonderful bread options available. Trying to avoid the larger, older and more industrial bakeries such as Tzvi and Viznitz bakeries in Bnei Brak or Angel…
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