bukharan jews

NY family brings body of matriarch to Israel for burial, violating several Health Ministry rules

Dozens of Jews who died abroad have been buried in Israel since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Craving gefilte fish and sushi? A new kosher restaurant combines them in a roll.

A Bukharian Jew opens a restaurant in Queens that serves a range of Jewish-themed sushi rolls, featuring gefilte fish, falafel and hummus.

See 1900s Bukharan Jewish Children in Gorgeous Full Color

When we think about Jews in the Czarist Russia, what comes to mind? Probably black-and-white, or maybe sepia-toned, images of poor, pious Jews, shot through a dusty lens. So Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky’s photograph of Jewish boys and their teacher in Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan) might come as something of a surprise. Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944) took the picture […]

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NY family brings body of matriarch to Israel for burial, violating several Health Ministry rules

Craving gefilte fish and sushi? A new kosher restaurant combines them in a roll.

See 1900s Bukharan Jewish Children in Gorgeous Full Color

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