Carol Green Ungar is a prize-winning writer, and author of Jewish Soul Food: Traditional Fare and What it Means.
Shavuot is the perfect time to try something new with an old Ashkenazi staple
For Israelis who previously evacuated their homes in Sinai or Gaza, leaving their new homes in northern and southern Israel during the current war against Hamas feels like déjà vu
Israeli comedians try to find the humor amid the horrors of the past month
On Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the 1960s, my parents didn’t belong to a synagogue, but they found an ad hoc congregation in an unlikely place for the High Holidays
An unlikely book opened a window into my grandmothers’ lives in Hungary before they were murdered in the Holocaust
I never knew my grandmother, who died in the Holocaust, but I found a way to connect to her through embroidery
As the documentary ‘Three Minutes’ brings a Polish town’s Jewish pre-Holocaust history into focus, a Yizkor book helped me imagine life in my parents’ Romanian hometown
What another Holocaust survivor’s book taught me about my own mother’s life
Taking a new look at my family’s history, after watching Ken Burns’ PBS documentary ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’
Even if you generally avoid it to for dieting reasons, indulge in this Jewish staple on Shavuot
A new graphic memoir recalls the story of a rabbi who traveled to the Soviet Union in 1965 to investigate the country’s treatment of Jews, and ended up helping one family escape
Whether they’re made from lead or wood or plastic, they can bring a family together for one night
Wildfires in Israel destroy a unique workshop that handcrafted biblical harps
What ‘Persian’ carpets meant to a generation of Jewish families in search of a place to call home
How spending 100 hours making brownies kept me from sinking into despair during the pandemic
Matzos Coffee, the sweet, sugary European treat that’s as simple as it sounds
Yoram Raanan lost 2,000 works of art when his Beit Meir studio went up in flames. But he’s ‘looking at the positive’—and the Talmud—for peace of mind.
On Hoshana Rabbah, as the High Holidays’ period of judgment comes to a conclusion, give your chicken soup a taste of something meaningful
