It was a villain’s hat, an ancient story, and a delicious cookie that brought them together recently. With their rolling pens clanking in unison, the B’nai Israel Sisterhood was making hamantaschen, ...

Hanukkah—the eight day Jewish holiday known as the Festival of Lights—begins on December 25 this year, which means it’s almost time to dust off the menorah and start planning your menu. Whether you’re ...

Purim, the Jewish holiday based on the Book of Esther, starts today at sundown. The Purim celebration recounts the story of Queen Esther and how she saved the Jewish people from annihilation. The ...

Jewish cuisine has long been influential in the U.S. and global food culture. Diaspora brought traditional Jewish foods across the world: Over centuries and continents, Jewish foods became part of the ...

As a child, visits to my maternal grandfather and grandmother (of Italian and Polish heritage, respectively) involved eating a lot pasta and pierogi. Dessert, in turn, was sometimes cannoli and ...

Gently transfer the cookies to a sheet of wax paper or parchment paper. Pour the chocolate drizzle into a Ziploc bag and make ...

“Kugels & Collards: Stories of Food, Family, and Tradition in Jewish South Carolina” (University of South Carolina Press, $36.99) by Rachel Gordin Barnett and Lyssa Kligman Harvey is a multicultural ...

The first commercially published American Jewish cookbook, the "Jewish Cookery Book" by Esther Levy, appeared in 1871 and featured recipes for giblet pudding (necks, gizzards and livers included), ...

Laurel Kratochvila was a 23 year-old from Sharon, Mass. living in Prague, working as a bartender, when she crossed into Poland with her boyfriend, entered a village bakery, and bit into a loaf of ...

Consensus is crumbling around the snack, which has been around for centuries. AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In Dutch supermarkets, no cookie aisle is fully stocked without a national treat called jodenkoeken, ...