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It was 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday and I had already been on the phone with tech support for five hours trying to get wireless internet hooked up in my new apartment. Despairing that I would never again have...
View ArticleA Soldier Connects to His Jewish Roots During Basic Training
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Every baker in Israel makes jelly doughnuts, or sufganiyot, for the eight days of Hanukkah. The word sufganiyot comes from the Greek sufan (“puffed,” “fried,” and “spongy”) as well as from the Hebrew...
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It was 7:30 a.m. on a Sunday and I had already been on the phone with tech support for five hours trying to get wireless internet hooked up in my new apartment. Despairing that I would never again have...
View ArticleA Soldier Connects to His Jewish Roots During Basic Training
I never attended services in the civilian world. But all that changed when I joined the Army. It didn’t start as a religious awakening. During Basic Training, I thought that going to services would be...
View ArticleVideo: Joan Nathan Makes the Ultimate Sufganiyot—Jelly Doughnuts for Hanukkah
Every baker in Israel makes jelly doughnuts, or sufganiyot, for the eight days of Hanukkah. The word sufganiyot comes from the Greek sufan (“puffed,” “fried,” and “spongy”) as well as from the Hebrew...
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As far as I remember, walking down the swarming main street “Calle Real” of the Spanish city La Linea de la Concepcion in the Strait of Gibraltar, allowed me to see those fried half-moon shape...
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