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Jewish Food Festival brings traditional cuisine and community celebration to Nay Aug Park

SCRANTON, Pa. — Food lovers will come together this weekend for the Jewish Food Festival in Scranton. The four-day festival at Nay Aug Park celebrates Jewish cuisine, community traditions, and ...
The Scranton Times-Tribune

Everything from brisket to babka at Jewish Food Festival

The 13th Jewish Food Festival is underway at Nay Aug Park in Scranton. The event opened Sunday and continues through Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. A highlight Tuesday will be a Kids Fest from ...
The New York Times

At the Great Nosh, Food Lovers Celebrate Jewish Food and Culture

New Yorkers descended on Governors Island for the Great Nosh, a festival devoted to Jewish cuisine and culture. New Yorkers descended on Governors Island for the Great Nosh, a festival devoted to ...

Protesters gather outside coffee shop that banned Jewish congressman over Israel support

Protesters rallied outside a Poetica Coffee in Brooklyn, which was accused of antisemitism after it banned Rep. Dan Goldman over his pro-Israel beliefs.
WTOL

Rossford church installs "Blessing Box" to provide food assistance for neighbors in need

ROSSFORD, Ohio — A Catholic church in Rossford is acting to provide direct help to individuals and families in the community who are experiencing food insecurity. All Saints Catholic Parish, on Lime ...
Jewish Journal

The Hot Dog’s Jewish History

With the Fourth of July around the corner, it’s worth recalling how Americans’ favorite Independence Day food emerged thanks to members of the Hebrew faith. As the late rabbi and chef Gil Marks ...
The Forward on MSN

Fight wildfires and other climate crises with this spiritual guide to catastrophe

As smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets much of the Northeast and Midwest in a hazy fog, some Jews are observing this Tisha ...
salisburypost

As food prices soar, blessing boxes pick up steam

SALISBURY — The Rowan Food and Farm Network is encouraging organizations and individuals to participate in one of the county’s fastest growing trends, fighting hunger. That is according to the Rowan ...
USA Today

As America fights over food, this woman speaks for the unheard

When Vanessa Rissetto speaks to members of Congress, the registered dietitian tries to turn down the temperature around divisive food rhetoric and address health crises nobody can dispute. As Health ...
The Forward

Mazel tov, Taylor and Travis: A rabbi’s imagined wedding speech under the celebrity chuppah

I have to admit, as a rabbi, I never imagined I’d be standing at a wedding bringing together two of America’s great religions: football and Taylor Swift. And yet here we are. I’ve officiated weddings ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Leslie Wexner helped shape these Jewish leaders. Now they want a reckoning over his Epstein ties.

A pair of Wexner alumni from the Bay Areas are leading what may be the largest organized accountability effort to emerge so far. This story originally appeared in J. The Jewish News of Northern ...