500-year-old Sephardic Recipes Brought a Network of Cousins Together.
“We ate, that’s how we communicated.”
From Patras to Baltimore…
The pair raised their children in a tiny Jewish community with only 265 members — until WWII…
Jewish Refugees in Portugal
Learn about a little-known chapter of Jewish history from award-winning historian Marion Kaplan.
Discover New York’s First Jewish Settler
Some say New York’s very first Jewish pioneer was Jacob Barsimon, in 1654. Find out more about New York’s first Jew!
Curious about a classic NYC beverage?
The mysterious Egg Cream, which some say originated on the Lower East Side among Eastern European Jewish immigrants, somehow contains neither eggs nor cream.
