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February 2023

The Old-School Jewish Drink

This recipe comes straight from the shtetl, and is part healing drink, part dessert. Whenever I had the slightest hint of a sore throat, the ...

Shalom, Slurpee

Israel gets its first 7-Eleven in convenience store chain’s planned wave     Yoav Silberstein, 16, waited an hour and a half to get into...

It’s Tu Bishvat Time

A Great Time to Strengthen Your Own Family Tree     Just a friendly reminder that Tu Bishvat, the Birthday of the Trees, starts on...

“The Giving Table”

  Serve Up Some Loving-kindness The daily news is a constant reminder that it’s a cruel world out there; yet we hear a lot about kindness...

Hatifim

The Culture of Snacking     Like Americans, Israelis love their salty snacks, or “hatifim” (literally, “that which is grabbed”). Israelis can’t get enough of...

“Koshersoul”

Michael Twitty’s memoir of food and identity, named Jewish book of the year “Koshersoul,” chef Michael W. Twitty’s memoir about his career fusing Jewish and...

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‘Swastika boards’ and ‘surf Nazis’

New documentary explores surfing’s history of antisemitism When he was 13 years old, Josh Greene moved with his family to San Clemente, California, a city...

News & Jews-March

Congregation B’nai Israel’s ChaiLife    Congregation B’nai Israel’s new social group for Jewish Young Adults (20’s, 30’s, and 40’s) invites you to Purim of the...

Politics, Violence, Memory

The New Social Science of the Holocaust Book coauthored by UCI political science professor Jeffrey Kopstein examines key questions of the Holocaust using tools, methods...

Orange County’s Jewish History

The Fainbarg Kayaks     At 87 years young, the Balboa Fun Zone in Newport Beach is going strong. It began during the Depression, in...