Inspired by the 20th-century migrations of her grandmother, Elizabeth Graver’s new novel, “Kantika,” depicts lives filled with music, ritual and hardship across continents and cultures.
By transforming once-kosher recipes with new flavors, shapes and techniques, chefs are innovating on, and safeguarding, time-honored breads and pastries.
Few of us can trace our ancestry back far enough to identify a forebear who lived in the Middle East and so, I decided to record the history of the Barook
It should come as no surprise that some of the most heartfelt music about our nation was penned by an immigrant, Irving Berlin. His biography reports that he was born Israel Baline in a Siberian Jewish village. After it was attacked by an anti-Semitic