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 Where can you find the best egg cream in the world? Not New York
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Micah Siva talks 'Nosh,' her new cookbook on veggie-centric Jewish food
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'Émigré,' a new production by the New York Philharmonic, recalls the city's embrace of over 20,000 people fleeing the Holocaust
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Culture These matzo ball soup dumplings taught me to stop worrying and enjoy Asian-Jewish fusion food
Jeremy Dean's viral mashup is as genius as it is irreverent
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Art Beautiful, intimate photos of the last living Holocaust survivors
The Lonka Project, a collaboration of 311 photographers across 35 countries, exhibited at the United Nations on Wednesday
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Fast Forward Israel just became the first country to approve the sale of lab-grown beef
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Culture What New York lost when it lost the Jewish cafeteria
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