Sarah M. Seltzer
Closets hold all of our secrets, our fantasies—and often our cleaning supplies. They can be a place to hide (metaphorically or actually), a portal to another world, or a home… Read more »
“What’s in Your Closet?” A Lilith Salon
Tag: New York
Kibbitz & Nosh: Photographs
Marcia Bricker Halperin
Dubrow’s Cafeteria was more than just a place to eat for a generation of Jewish New Yorkers and Marcia Bricker Halperin’s photo essay illuminates why.
Remembering Lori Zabar
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Nora Ephron called Zabar’s, “The most rambunctious and chaotic of all delicatessens, with one foot in the Old World and the other in the vanguard of every fast-breaking food move in the city.” Lori Zabar had a keen appreciation for both the old and the new and as such, she was the perfect chronicler for this story.
Where Art and Judaism Crossover (in Brooklyn)
Mikhal Weiner
Creating a Jewish arts space in Brooklyn.
Talking Migration and Beauty with Jewelry Designer Nora Kogan
Kitty Zeldis
“I was so used to describing myself as a Russian. I equated being Russian with being Soviet. I discounted both my Jewish and Ukrainian identities. Why? Because I was brainwashed when I was a child. But in fact, I am not Russian. I am Jewish, Ukrainian and Australian.”
The Sufgania That Made Me Feel At Home In a Place That Rarely Felt Like One
Polina Kroik
I could never find the sufganiot of my Israeli childhood, the ones that my father bought for a couple of shekels in the local bakery and brought home unexpectedly one damp night.