After a threat, Israel evacuated citizens out of Istanbul. Life for local Turkish Jews hasn’t changed.
A travel warning linked to an Iranian plot hasn’t disturbed life Turkish Jews, who have enjoyed the warming of Israel-Turkey relations.
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Eat, Drink + Think The perfect low-cost Shabbat recipe for inflationary times: honey-glazed turkey legs
I received the dread email from my favorite kosher butchers, and there is a good chance you have too. A sincere apology for increasing prices, an explanation of supply chain issues and inflation. I know kosher butchers are doing their best in a difficult situation. I took a quick glance at their website: How much…
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News A Holocaust course designed for Muslim students may soon be taught at more schools
Muslim students at a New York private school are taking a course on the Holocaust designed for young followers of Islam, a project backers hope will serve as a model for other Muslim schools. An after-school elective at Brooklyn Amity School, the course has brought a dozen 16 and 17-year-olds together every other week since…
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Culture Why Jews are literally ‘the people of Thanksgiving’
Editor’s note: This article was first published in 2017. Thanksgiving has always been a holiday Jews are very comfortable with. While it may seem like the reason behind the love is that Thanksgiving is secular, as opposed to other widely celebrated holidays that are explicitly religious in nature, the deep reason is probably etymological. Jews…
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Forverts in English After 40 years in exile, my father returns to Cuba
Read this article in Yiddish Of the many stories my father has told me about his past, my favorite is the one about the day he became an American citizen. It was February 17, 1967. My dad sat inside the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, alongside a mosaic of others, waiting to…
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Recipes Confit turkey legs for a perfect pandemic Thanksgiving
My sister called from Connecticut a couple of weeks ago, sounding serious. “This is hard to talk about,” she said, “but we have to discuss Thanksgiving.” It didn’t take long for us to make the sad but inevitable decision that our families needed to celebrate the holiday separately, as we did at Rosh Hashanah, and…
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News The global proportion of Jews living in Europe is as low as it was 1,000 years ago. And the future there doesn’t look bright.
Jews’ share of the population of Europe is as low now as it was 1,000 years ago and is declining even further, according to a landmark new demographic study. The study published Wednesday by the London-based Institute for Jewish Policy Research found 1.3 million people who describe themselves as Jewish in continental Europe, the United…
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News A rabbi’s 3000-mile Turkish odyssey, in the name of kashrut
Kosher offerings on supermarket shelves in America and Israel might have looked differently this High Holiday season had Rabbi Mendy Chitrik not undertaken a 3000 mile trip around Anatolia, Turkey’s Asian portion, this summer. While it may come as a surprise, despite only 15,000 Jews in the country, Turkey is a major supplier of kosher…
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