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They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
The tale of Schick's Bakery is one of 20th-century ingenuity and 21st-century capitalism
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Why Pastramakah should become the next great Jewish tradition
Started in a Las Vegas bar, the celebration marries cured meats and the Festival of Lights
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Film & TV This Hallmark Hanukkah film is a minor miracle
‘Hanukkah on the Rocks’ is not purely for the goyishe gaze
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Every American Hanukkah special, movie and TV episode worth knowing about
Adam Sandler, Hallmark and Disney deep cuts for your viewing pleasure
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A loss that leaves a bagel-sized hole on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
Why I’m mourning the closing of Absolute Bagels
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‘A Complete Unknown’ proves that one thing about Bob Dylan will certainly endure
The new Dylan movie packs an emotional wallop, even if it fakes just like a biopic
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Jewish New Yorkers sit shiva for Absolute Bagels
Longtime Upper West Side residents came to pay their respects after the store’s unexpected closure
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How from where we started did we ever reach this Hanukkah?
A tale of friendship, resilience, holidays, family, Katharine Hepburn and the power of an unpronounceable acronym
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Why are the accents in Jesus movies so weird?
Denizens of the imaginary ancient Middle East speak in an exotic-sounding, unidentifiable hodgepodge of sounds
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The shuttering of Absolute Bagels on NYC’s Upper West Side is driving some to anguish — others to poetry
An elegy for the loss of the best bagel in New York — and maybe the universe
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Film & TV Hallmark’s ‘Leah’s Perfect Gift’ gets interfaith relationships right — and a whole lot else wrong
The new Hallmark film about a Jewish woman celebrating Christmas is more sensitive than you might imagine
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Film & TV These Israelis and Palestinians aren’t sworn enemies — in a new documentary, they work together towards peace
Joy Sela's 'The Other' shows Israelis and Palestinians finding common ground.
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