by Webmaster | Nov 16, 2015 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
We fought the Greeks, and the victory was ours!” (Traditional Israeli Hanukkah song) Eating Greek at Hanukkah might seem like a contradiction. After all, at Hanukkah time, there is a stark dichotomy drawn between Jews (good) and Greeks (bad). According to the...
by Webmaster | May 11, 2015 | Identity, Recipes
The first time I tasted a mojito, and I mean really tasted a mojito, I was in Havana with my family, and my dad had whisked me away to a local hotspot after a long, sweaty day of delivering humanitarian aid to those in need. That night was particularly warm, and the...
by Webmaster | Feb 23, 2015 | Identity, Jewish Ritual, Recipes
What could be funnier than a black man marrying a white woman? Before you say “Loving v. Virginia,” hold on, there’s more: Make that a white Jewish woman. Isn’t that a stitch? If same-sex marriage in Alabama hasn’t convinced you we might actually be in 2015, the...
by Intern | Oct 12, 2014 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
I was born and raised in a traditional Jewish family in India. My father Dr. Samuel Solomon was a professor in the College of Agriculture, Pune where I spent the first 16 years of my life. On Simchat Torah morning, the gardener used to bring a basket of jasmine buds...
by Intern | Oct 7, 2014 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
Sukkot appears to be one holiday in which the Moroccan and Ashkenazic customs and rituals are fairly similar. We both use the lulav and etrog and we both build a sukkah. I imagine that the sukkah building materials might have differed in Morocco than the materials my...
by Intern | Sep 9, 2014 | Holidays, Identity, Recipes
From black-eyed pea hummus spiked with homemade horseradish harissa to matzoh-meal fried chicken cooked in shmaltz, to peach noodle kugels touched with garam masala, Afro-Ashkefardi is my way of cooking Jewish. While some of my DNA goes back to old Jewish genes, I...
