Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman
By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman
-
Life The Making of Middle East Citizen Journalists
Even after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and ignited protests throughout the Middle East, 21-year-old Nourjahen J. didn’t feel afraid, but empowered. The student and human rights activist in Tunisia is blogging and posting her truth on social media. “You cannot say that Israel doesn’t exist,’” Nourjahen tells protesters. “’You cannot say…
-
Life Meet the Israeli Doctor Trying To Make Recurrent Miscarriage History
Shira Cohen-Goldberg of Boston still vividly remembers when she went for a 12-week ultrasound, eager to see the life she was creating, only to leave devastated. There was no heartbeat. “In that moment, losing a potential child, I was in the depths of despair,” Cohen-Goldberg recalls. “No one really understands what it’s like to lose…
-
Food The Fishy Jewish History of Britain’s Smoked Salmon Business
GLASGOW — Nothing enhances a basic bagel with cream cheese like ribbons of smoked salmon. In the U.S. we tend to refer to this sometimes silky, sometimes slimy (always orange-pink) fish as lox. (This is a colloquialism. Lox is technically salt-cured or brined; never smoked.) The word comes from the Yiddish word for salmon, lax….
-
Food Some Smokin’ Scottish Salmon Stats
When Jews brought smoked salmon to the U.K., they could never have imagined the extent to which it would catch on. $1.2 billion: Worldwide retail value of Scottish-farmed salmon 1 million: Smoked salmon meals eaten in the U.K. every week 50+: Number of countries that imported fresh Scottish salmon in 2015 5,000: Scottish jobs reliant…
-
Food How to Tell the Difference: Norwegian vs. Scottish Salmon
Norwegian vs. Scottish Salmon Catch: Cold waters of the fjords of Norway vs. Farm or cool Scottish waters and lakes Color: Peachy-pink vs. Orange-pink Density: Leaner vs. Muscular, fatty Texture: Silky smooth, a little oily vs. Tender, buttery Flavor: Densely smoky flavor, salty vs. Sweet and natural Smoking Technique: Dry-curing with different types of wood…
-
Life Jewish and Arab Israeli Women March to ‘Wage Peace’
Masses of women wearing white and chanting songs of peace made their way through the dust of northern Israel on their way to Kfar Yehoshua in the Jezreel Valley. It was the fifth day of the March of Hope, and a core group of 19 women, surrounded by hundreds of supporters, were walking for peace….
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
- 2
Culture They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
- 3
Culture ‘A Complete Unknown’ proves that one thing about Bob Dylan will certainly endure
- 4
Film & TV Why ‘The Brutalist’ resonated so deeply with me
In Case You Missed It
-
News 18 notable Jews who died in 2024
-
Fast Forward Department of Ed resolves Title VI antisemitism complaints against 5 U of California campuses, U of Cincinnati
-
Theater While Yiddish lives, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s ghost stories may flourish
-
Yiddish World Frankie’s Menorah (a Yiddish Hanukkah story)
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
