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‘Food writers have responsibility’: Why Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman is struggling with her hamantaschen

By SHIRA HANAU

(JTA) — Deb Perelman has a complicated relationship with her hamantaschen.

With some recipes, the edges won’t stay pinched, leaving the cookies flopping open with filling spilling from all sides. The doughs that do stay pinched, like...

In a Texas battered by cold, Jewish communities join a desperately needed response

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — One year ago, Dallas’s Jewish community convened a “health crisis management team” to coordinate the local response to the brand-new COVID-19 pandemic.

Now the community has repurposed the team, consisting of rabbis from each denomination and...

Stan Lee’s legacy is complicated. This new book casts a shadow on it.

By JULIAN VULOJ

(JTA) — Stan Lee, arguably the most famous American comic book creator, died at age 95 in 2018.

Honoring his Jewish identity, many evoked the phrase “may his memory be a blessing” (coming from the Hebrew “zichrono...

Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio firebrand who sharply divided American Jews, dies at 70

By RON KAMPEAS

(JTA) — Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk radio icon who helped polarize American Jewry through both his inflammatory political rhetoric and his unabashed support of Israel, has died. Limbaugh was 70 when he passed away Wednesday of...

Andréa Burns stars in ‘Bad Dates’ streaming from George St. Playhouse

By ALAN SMASON, Exclusive to the CCJN

When the worldwide theatre community shut down last March, Andréa Burns was riding high. She was getting ready to fly out to San Diego to be one one a group of actors who...

WW2 Museum unveils interactive concentration camp liberation exhibit

BY DEAN M. SHAPIRO, Special to the CCJN

When Alan Moskin, along with other members of his military regiment, entered the village of Lambach, Austria, on May 4, 1945 in the closing days of combat on the European front of...

‘The ways of Torah are peaceful’: Why football presents a dilemma for American Jews

By GABE FRIEDMAN

(JTA) — Rabbi Josh Feigelson remembers the moment that football lost its magic for him.

It was Oct. 20, 2013, and Feigelson was eating dinner with his family at Ken’s Diner, a kosher restaurant in Skokie, the...

The controversy over California’s ethnic studies curriculum, explained

By BEN SALES

(JTA) — How and where do Jews fit into America’s minority communities?

That’s the question at the center of a debate that has raged for more than a year over new school curriculum guides that are being...

Do Jewish conservatives still have a home in the post-Trump Republican Party?

By RON KAMPEAS

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Five months ago Rabbi Alan Sherman appeared in a political ad draped in a prayer shawl and blowing a shofar “as a wake-up call to all Jews, to wake up and vote for Donald...

Ina Davis receives Hannah G. Solomon Award from NCJW

By ALAN SMASON

The Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women bestowed its highest honor on one of its own on Tuesday evening, January 26, when it presented the 2021 Hannah G. Solomon Award to local,...