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A 16th-century painting shows a family enjoying pancakes and waffles.
food

Remembering the Tansy, the Forgotten Easter Pancake of Centuries Past

Green, herbal, and slightly toxic.
Natasha Frost March 30, 2018
A bagel served with lox and cream cheese at Kutsher's restaurant in New York, 1977.
judaism

The Forgotten History of New York’s Bagel Famines

Remembering Local 338 and the world's toughest bagel bakers.
Natasha Frost February 9, 2018
A larger Hebrew scroll found in the cache in the West Bank caves.
archaeology

One of the Last Two Dead Sea Scrolls Has Been Decoded

Israeli researchers found an ancient calendar by piecing together fragments of the text.
Natasha Frost January 23, 2018
Rabbi Mendel Jacobs has dubbed this "Kosher Tartan", and the pattern is registered with the Scottish Tartan Authority.
judaism

Scottish Jews Have Their Own Official Tartan

It's kosher!
Carly Silver November 8, 2017
A composite photograph showing the windows at the Euclid Avenue Temple, Cleveland, Ohio.
art

Louis Comfort Tiffany's Little-Known Forays Into Judaica

The stained-glass artist created mosaics, menorahs, and bronze synagogue doors.
Eve Kahn November 7, 2017
Memphis, Tennessee

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.
A aerial view of the Masada fortress.
Masada, Israel

Masada

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.
Temple Beth Shalom.
Cayman Islands

Temple Beth Shalom

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.
The Eldridge Street Synagogue and Museum.
New York, New York

Museum at Eldridge Street

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Rodef Shalom Biblical Botanical Garden

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.
An overgrown path.
Prague, Czechia

Olšany Cemetery

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.
East Jerusalem, Israel

Western Wall Tunnel

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.
Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague.
Prague, Czechia

Old Jewish Cemetery

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.
judaism

A Jewish Commodore Saved Monticello, And His Family Got Hell for It

The public debate around the Founding Father's house being in 'alien hands'.
Eliza McGraw August 3, 2016
food

Let Them Eat Corn! The New Rules of Passover

The eons-old fight over whether eating bread should be punishable by death.
Dan Nosowitz April 20, 2016
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Berlin, Germany

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.
Ades Synagogue
Jerusalem, Israel

Ades Synagogue

This "Jewish Sistine Chapel" was designed to reinvigorate Judaism's artistic legacy but was almost lost to misguided restoration.
Irish Jewish Museum
Dublin, Ireland

Irish Jewish Museum

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.