While the “appetizers” for Seder nights are religiously predetermined—think haroset, hardboiled eggs and the Hillel sandwich—the actual dinner remains pleasantly free of ritual dishes (unless

The middle days of Passover are when cooking and menu planning become a challenge—when you’re not necessarily looking to impress large crowds and, more than

If you regularly turn to the Internet for fresh recipe ideas, updates on classics or confirmation on just how long to set your oven timer

Everything about Jerusalem is “complicated”: its political status, its soup-mix population of Arabs and Jews from wide diasporas, even its food. It is that last

We all know that America prides itself on being a melting pot, home to simmering masses of immigrants both Jewish and not. But we are

Helen Nash’s two previous kosher cookbooks—Kosher Cuisine and Helen Nash’s Kosher Kitchen (Jason Aronson)—are regarded as perennial standouts in the field of Jewish cooking, praised by well-known Jewish

Bored of cheesecake and blintzes for Shavuot? How about luxuriously decadent dairy rugelach?

Kosher desserts present a year-round challenge in their customary need to be non-dairy, if being served after a meal containing meat. Add to the culinary