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How Herring Brought My Father and Me Together—Once I Overcame My Gag Reflex
For 30 years, I turned up my nose at my dad’s favorite fish. Then I tried it, and finally understood its briny appeal.
A Disappearing Delicacy
As ptcha—a classic Ashkenazic dish made from jellied calves’ feet—disappears from deli menus, American Jews lose a culinary link to past generations
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Fyvush Finkel: A Charming Conversation With a Longtime Serious Mensch
As the 91-year-old Yiddish theater star embarks on a Purim cabaret show, we revisit his appearance on Vox Tablet
Pin the Crime on the Jew: Blood Libel and the Case of Mendel Beilis
Edmund Levin plumbs trial transcripts to examine how one of Russia’s biggest court cases fed on the myth of Jewish malice
As If You Needed It, Yet Another Reason To Be in Miami: The Delis
Evolving Jewish culture—and doctors’ orders—dealt a blow to South Florida’s delicatessens. But they’re making a comeback.
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