Sam Lin-Sommer is an editorial fellow at the Forward. You can reach him by email at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter at @SamLinSommer.
Sam Lin-Sommer
By Sam Lin-Sommer
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Food This Palestinian chef loves Bethlehem’s delicious, seasonal cuisine. He’s afraid it could soon be destroyed
A conversation with Fadi Kattan about his hometown's food, multiculturalism and resilience under Israeli occupation
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Theater ‘What Do I Do With All This Heritage?’ A new play celebrates Asian Jewish America in all its diversity
The salon theater show captures the community's joys and struggles — with songs, prayers, and K-pop
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Culture ‘What’s Kosher?’ An Indian-Jewish poet’s take on memory, belonging, and her people’s delicious history.
Zilka Joseph's new of book of poetry, 'Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman,' dips into the culture and mythology around the subcontinent's largest Jewish community
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News Queens College has been a model of Muslim-Jewish cooperation. Can it stay that way after Oct. 7?
A student body that is 1/3rd Jewish and 1/6th Muslim struggles for harmony amid war
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News Columbia’s campus is rocked by protests. The surrounding neighborhood? Not so much
Residents of Morningside Heights say it's business as usual in their Upper Manhattan community
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Food No, your matzo doesn’t need to be drier than the Sinai Desert
The search for soft matzo
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Food The Jewish soup that keeps people warm at the ‘end of the universe’
How a Newfoundland chef’s stew of smoked meat and split peas becomes a pastrami pea soup in Brooklyn
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Tired of dry Hamantashen and boring fillings, I went on a quest for something new
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