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May Ye May 6, 2021 As a young child, I would leave letters on the kitchen table for my mother to read when she got home from work. I would sign them “Love, your Chinese-American daughter May,” or “Love, your Chinese daughter May.” Being Chinese, being Chinese-American was so important to who I was. I grew up in a secular household, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. Though I tried to get involved with Jewish life after high school, door after door was shut on me. It was only during my first year of rabbinical school that I experienced a Shabbat meal, observed Rosh Hashanah, attended a Yom Kippur service, and participated in a Passover seder. So beginning rabbinical school really meant throwing myself head first into Judaism. I had to immerse myself deeply in all aspects reading the Torah, experiencing Shabbat and holiday services, learning Hebrew, and studying Jewish histor to succeed in the program. ....
Jewish History in a Bottle: An Interview With Mr. Feish Herzog By Rafael Hoffman Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 7:18 am | י ט ניסן תשפ א The story of Klal Yisrael’s glories, challenges, and perseverance is often presented by focusing on a particular event or period. While it may appear an untraditional vehicle, the tale of the Herzog family and the empire of wine and food companies they have established seems equally apt at capsulizing part of the story of the modern history of the Jewish People. After decades of leading a prominent spirits business in Vrbové, Slovakia (about an hour by car, north of Pressburg, today Bratislava), the family suffered several close brushes with death during the Holocaust, only to miraculously survive and replant themselves in America, where they went on to establish one of the nation’s largest kosher food and beverage businesses. Beginning as a small winery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Kedem’s growth and diversifi ....