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Cheese, Glorious (Kosher) CheeseHanukkah is a holiday of legends, and many of its modern traditions stem from ancient lore. One lesser-known tale accounts for the custom of serving cheese and dairy products during the Festival of Lights.…Read more

Raise a Glass To Kosher WineIf you see a kosher cabernet on the shelf at your local wine shop, there’s a good chance it’s been sold to the store by Royal Wine Corp., the New Jersey-based wine producer, importer and distributor that owns Kedem and Baron Herzog wineries, represents dozens more from around the world and was a pioneer in bringing prestigious kosher wines to the United States from France.…Read more

Eating ExtravaganzaFor the attendees of Kosherfest, the kosher food industry’s largest annual trade show-cum-feeding frenzy in New York, sampling from the hundreds of booths demands more than a healthy appetite; it requires strategy. With a sizable number of observant Jews among the 7,000 attendees at the recent convention — which marked Kosherfest’s 18th anniversary — the kosher laws prohibiting the consumption of dairy and meat together definitely play a part in the plan of attack.…Read more

Filling in the HolesBagel boys, get ready for your close-up.Writer Matthew Goodman and veteran film director Joan Micklin Silver have begun collaborating on a documentary about the little-known history of the Local 338, the International Bagel Bakers Union of New York. The union, which was founded in 1907 and was one of the city’s most powerful in its heyday,…Read more

Ethiopia: The Other ExodusFew stories capture the dramatic flavor of the Exodus as well as that of the Ethiopian Jews. After millennia of being subject to the whims of an oppressive society, the bulk of Ethiopia’s Jews — some with a layover in the Sudanese desert — left the land of their birth for the Promised Land in two secret airlifts, Operation Moses (1984) and…Read more