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Daphne Lazar Price

Sep 24, 2026, 10:14 PM

The last days of the perfect ‘fruit gem’

Sunkist Fruit Gems. (via Amazon)

Some years ago, my spouse and his best friend opened a kosher candy store in our neighborhood shopping center. On some level, they were living out a childhood fantasy, especially since my father-in-law was a dentist. I imagine sugar...

Sep 24, 2026, 8:46 AM

Challah, Herring and Zionism

Mordechai held a large piece of toasted challah smothered with slices of Vita's herring in wine sauce. "Moshe," he said, "this morning I was scrolling through TikTok when I came across a middle-aged white pastor wearing an expensive suit. The...

Sep 18, 2026, 8:56 PM

A Mensch with Flour on His Hands

Strudel, Amber, and Pikuach Nefesh Odesa native Uriel Shtern preserves recipes and Jewish memory, transforms Ukrainian amber into Judaica, and helps women reach a doctor in places where war has made an ordinary medical exam nearly inaccessible. At first glance,...

Hande Gençünal

Sep 15, 2026, 6:27 AM

One Ship Gets Protected, One Cow Doesn’t

Israel doesn't guard all its strategic assets with the same care. Nothing shows this more clearly than the different treatment two sales received, one a shipping company, the other a dairy cooperative. Two Founding Companies ZIM and Tnuva were both born...

Sep 10, 2026, 10:44 PM

Of Memories We Grieve, As Life Chooses To Continue

Israeli kalanit (כלנית) flower, beautiful symbol of pain and remembrance
Photo by Zachi Evenor Anemone-coronaria-2016-Zachi-EvenorCropped for aspect ratio by z r nur CC BY-SA 4.0

"Not Dead Yet," the caption above a black cat on a sticker I saw recently proclaims. Lately that has taken on greater and greater meaning. The end of the secular 2012 began an era in my life where I grieved...

Sep 10, 2026, 4:45 AM

Mandylicious Honey Challah for Your High Holiday Entertaining

"Mandylicious Honey Challah" for your High Holiday Entertaining. Photo courtesy of Mandy Silverman.

Mandy Silverman’s new book on challah making may be called Twisted, but her support for Hadassah is straight up. Silverman, known to her Instagram fans as Mandyliciouschallah, is celebrated for her inventive takes on challah and other braided breads. Her...

Sep 5, 2026, 12:49 PM

Iran Has Every Condition for an Uprising. No Guarantees Yet.

In November 1944, Ancel Keys, a physiologist at the University of Minnesota advising the War Department, began the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. He needed to understand how prolonged hunger affects the human body and how to safely treat severe malnutrition. Thirty-six...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 2, 2026, 9:10 PM

Stomping on our enemies

The days between Tu B’Av and Sukkot have always been considered the wine pressing season in the Land of Israel. The farmers would be out in the vineyards harvesting the grapes which would then be brought to the winepress...

Aug 30, 2026, 6:09 PM

Jericho area: A New Hypothesis on Mysterious Latin Letters in the Copper Scroll

The Copper Scroll: Are Its Mysterious Foreign Letters Codes Used by Ancient Water Engineers? The Uniqueness of the Jericho District and the Concentration of the Greek Signs One of the most striking features of the Copper Scroll is not the meaning...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jul 29, 2026, 10:53 AM

A land where you will lack nothing

In Parshat Ekev (Dvarim 7:9) the following words about the Land of Israel stand out: “… A land where you will lack nothing…” Sifre (Dvarim, Piska 37), asks: Why the Land of Israel is called tevel (Mishlei 8:26)? The answer is...

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