When the Tel Aviv light rail opened in the summer of 2023, it shaved travel time from the city’s southern neighborhoods to the haredi Orthodox city of Bnei Brak to just 20 minutes. For some, the new ...

A flat vector drawing from a top angle on a white background of a pot of tsolanit and Jerusalem kugel and a personal dish inside the soup of hamin, which is a traditional Jewish food that is usually ...

I was a toddler when I first tasted the deeply comforting flavors of gondi, the traditional Persian Shabbat meatball and broth stew that, like most comfort foods, is cooked slowly over a low simmer. I ...

Few cuisines are quite so intertwined with a single ingredient as Hungary’s is with paprika — the spice that gives some of the country’s best-known dishes their intense orange colour and ...

“A thought has blown the marketplace away. There is a song on the wind and joy in the trees. Shabbat arrives in the world, scattering a song in the silence of the night. Eternity utters a day.” — ...

I grew up in an extended family. Aunts, uncles, cousins celebrated Rosh Hashanah with a stand-around lunch after the morning service at shul. Sliced apple dipped into honey symbolised the wish for a ...

FOOD HAS TREMENDOUS transportive powers. For Proust it was the madeleine; for M.F.K. Fisher, the oyster. Cassoulet is what sent food and travel writer Sylvie Bigar on a life-changing journey, to ...

For the first time since World War II, the Hungarian city of Debrecen held an ordination ceremony for an Orthodox rabbi, installing Rabbi Shmuel Faigen as the spiritual leader of the local Jewish ...

Summer in Milwaukee is synonymous with festivals. From Summerfest to Bastille Days to Mexican Fiesta, there is no shortage of live music, food and fun for families and friends to enjoy. A few years ...

Driven by his family history, Tibor Rosenstein is preserving Jewish-Hungarian cuisine through his Budapest restaurant, which has become a bucket list destination for food lovers. A mere block from ...