The hottest Jewish trends for 2023 (and the 2022 fads we won’t miss)
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Fast Forward She’s Bisexual And Jewish — And The 101st Rose Bowl Queen!
(JTA) — Louise Deser Siskel, a high school senior who will preside over the New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses Parade, says she is the first Jewish Rose queen in the parade’s 101-year history. Siskel, 18, also told the local media that she is the first LGBTQ queen and the first queen that wears glasses, though…
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Life For Russian Jews, ‘Christmas’ Trees Reflect Tradition — Not Assimilation
Forget Chinese food. While American Jews nosh on sinful servings of moo shu, their Russian-speaking neighbors indulge in a syncretic Christmas ritual of their own, preparing for New Year’s celebrations. Over 1.7 million Jews left the Soviet Union since the 1970s, with some 500,000 settling in the United States. My own family arrived in 1989,…
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The Schmooze Gal Gadot’s Rosh Hashanah Greeting
We can think of five-thousand, seven hundred, and seventy-nine reasons we’re grateful for the new year, and Gal Gadot is one of them. The Israeli superstar graced social media this week with a Rosh Hashanah greeting that walked the fine line between Pinterest-y and rabbinic. Gadot, who is slated to star in the “Wonder Woman”…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Jacqueline Kent Cooke In Drunken Brawl With Jewish Lawyer
On New Year’s Eve, a drunken heiress to her billionaire, NFL owner father’s fortune, went to pick up her jacket from coat check. To her surprise, Jacqueline Kent Cooke found the Haberkorn family collecting their coats. So she decided to say something. “Hurry up Jew,” she said, according to the Matt Haberkorn, a San Francisco…
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Food How To Support Jewish Organizations That Provide Hunger Relief
Consider making a donation to one of these organizations, all of which support hunger-relief within the Jewish community: Masbia Soup Kitchen Network offers hot kosher meals to New York’s food-insecure population out of three dignified, restaurant-like settings, two in Brooklyn and one in Queens. It also gives out emergency care packages full of groceries to…
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Life Our Hope For The New Year: A Healthy Baby
My wife and I imagined that we’d be celebrating New Year’s very quietly, at home. She’d be 36 weeks pregnant with our second child — a month till our baby’s due date — and, we assumed, she’d be exhausted. We hadn’t made it to 36 weeks with our first: Four years ago he was born…
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Recipes 5 Easy Hangover-Relieving Recipes To Make Post-Purim
If you find yourself suffering slightly from last night’s celebration, a little snack might make you feel less rocky — something with a bit of substance, some healthy fat, a little salt and/or some hydrating liquid. Of course you don’t want anything you have to work at much. I scanned our recipe collection and came…
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