Michael Pollan, the poster boy of America’s “new food” movement, talks about the role his Jewish upbringing plays in his approach to food, his disagreements with Leviticus and how cooking for yourself is the key to healthy eating and changing the world. ...
The old joke goes like this: An elderly Jewish man falls on a New York street on a hot summer ...

The Lebanese counterattack on Israel was carefully planned, precisely organized and ruthlessly executed by an army of 300. The mission:

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by Sala Levin Located at the geographic crossroads of Asia, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Israel is a

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The Torah is full of oenophiles: One of Noah’s first actions after emerging from the ark is to plant a

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Palak paneer, chana masala and the egregiously treif-sounding butter chicken may not scream “Jewish” and were highly unlikely to grace

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From Brooklyn to Jerusalem to the Greek isles, a new batch of Jewish cookbooks takes you on a whirlwind tour

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by Eileen Lavine When I was growing up on the Upper West Side in the 1930s, Broadway was lined with

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In Genesis, Jacob asks his father-in-law, Laban, to compensate him for 14 years of unpaid labor. His request is strange:

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Here a Roth, there a Stein, everywhere a Kafka—Jews are the people of the book, a group that has long

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Cholent as we know it today—a slow-cooking stew most commonly comprised of potatoes, barley, beans and beef—likely got its start in the late 12th or early 13th century, according to Gil Marks, author of Encyclopedia of Jewish Food. ...