Carol Novis is from Winnipeg, Canada. She has written for publications in Canada, the US, South Africa and Israel, where she worked for 15 years as a writer and editor on The Jerusalem Post. She is also the author of the humorous cozy mystery “Long in the Sleuth,” about quirky seniors who solve murders in a Jewish retirement home. She lives in Kfar Saba, Israel.
Carol Novis
By Carol Novis
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News An Old Holiday Favorite Gets a Refill Fast Forward
If there’s anything that illustrates Israel’s growing culinary sophistication, it’s the recent transformation of the Hanukkah soufgania — or jelly doughnut. Traditionally injected with strawberry jelly and dusted with powdered sugar, the soufgania has experienced an upgrade. Doughnuts are now available with fillings ranging from chocolate truffle to halvah. And their popularity is growing. “We…
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At the Rosh Hashanah table, as at all Jewish holiday meals, symbolic foods take pride of place. For the New Year, they will include two round challahs — symbolizing the cycle of life — apples and honey for a sweet year, and sometimes even beets, leeks and a fish head. But to Israeli-American food writer…
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