Irene Katz Connelly is a staff writer at the Forward. You can contact her at connelly@forward.com. Follow her on Twitter at @katz_conn.
Irene Katz Connelly
By Irene Katz Connelly
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Fast Forward Kosher cream cheese shortage may cramp Shavuot celebrations
A cream cheese shortage that struck at the worst possible time has been resolved, said a prominent kosher dairy company — but not all customers are reassured. Kosher cream cheese is the latest in a list of consumer goods, from toilet paper to meat, made scarce by coronavirus. The dairy spread has become an increasingly…
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Life How to celebrate Shavuot at home
Although Shavuot probably originated as a pre-Judaic agricultural festival marking the first harvest, for Jews the holiday commemorates God’s gift of the Torah on Mount Sinai. Shavuot takes place exactly seven weeks after Passover, on the day when, according to the Torah, God gave the Torah to the Jews. In ancient times, Jews combined appreciation…
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Life After a website breach, an ulpan teacher takes to Instagram to school hackers — on grammar
When the owner of a Hebrew language school in Tel Aviv discovered that the websites for his business and hundreds of others had been hacked to display the same mistake-riddled text, he knew just what to do — correct it. On May 21, Yaron Sivan woke up to texts from friends and students, alerting him…
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The Schmooze After Trojan’s horny bread cookbook, babka will never look the same
First your frenemies started posting their perfect loaves of sourdough bread on Instagram. Then shortages of flour and yeast became so severe that people started arguing about who has the right to make their own bread and who deserves supermarket offal. Now, condom manufacturer Trojan has published an e-cookbook of phallus-shaped bread recipes for bakers…
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News As New York synagogues reopen, government guidelines leave little room for Orthodox women
Orthodox women are anxious to pray in synagogues once more, but New York’s new guidelines for resuming religious services may leave them out in the cold. On a recent Shabbat evening, Laura Shaw Frank took a walk with her husband through their neighborhood in the Bronx. Their route took them past the shuttered doors of…
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The Schmooze Has celebrity chef Alison Roman been cancelled for good?
Several lengthy apologies later, it looked like the feud between celebrity chef Alison Roman and model-cum-lifestyle-guru Chrissy Teigen was over — until The New York Times stepped in. The newspaper has placed Roman’s bi-weekly column “on temporary leave,” a spokesperson told the Daily Beast on Tuesday, after disparaging comments Roman made about two Asian celebrities…
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Life Seven ways to celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month in quarantine
Here at the Forward, pretty much every month is Jewish American Heritage Month. We don’t need a (basically unfunded) government initiative to bring you a redux of Jewish coughing etiquette from 1918, erotic Yiddish poetry, and hot takes on which celebrities may or may not be converting to Judaism. But maybe your daily routine doesn’t…
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The Schmooze Knead to know: this teenager will school you in bagel-making
Since the start of shelter-in-place, I have watched a lot of bread videos. Most of them fill me with panic (at my lack of life skills), fury (at other people’s apparent ability to structure their time) and shame (regarding the 12 packets of yeast I optimistically purchased at the beginning of this pandemic and the…
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