How to not spoil your interfaith kids during the holiday season
By Susan Katz Miller (Kveller via JTA) — “We get twice the presents!” Most interfaith kids will utter this classic, and rather obnoxious, boast at…
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Kosher recipes: 9 Persian ingredients to try now
By Shannon Sarna LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Persian culture makes up an important part of the Jewish community in New York, Israel and especially Southern California,…
‘Transparent’ Season 2: How a Jewish trans father inspired a hit series
By Curt Schleier (JTA) — Writer and director Jill Soloway grew up in what she calls a “somewhat normalish, upper middle class Jewish household” in…
4 elderly Jewish ladies busted for weekly mahjong game
(JTA) — Four elderly Jewish women playing mahjong in Florida may not sound like a crime — but that’s what was recently alleged in the city…
Teaming up, Welch’s and Manischewitz challenge kosher grape juice monopoly
By Uriel Heilman SECAUCUS, N.J. (JTA) — Welch’s is coming to seder this year. For decades, America’s kosher grape juice market has been dominated by…