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Passover

Hailey is a recent college graduate, freshly relocated into her mother and stepfather’s luxury penthouse in Manhattan. Unemployed, she’s both the wealthiest and poorest 1% of the country…and she’s caught in both the economic crisis and a crisis of identity. Her story, told in Michelle Haimoff‘s new novel These Days Are Ours, takes place during Passover 2002. It’s six months after […]

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Socalled is the performing name of Montreal-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Dolgin. His first studio album, “The Socalled Seder,” was literally that–a musical adaptation of the traditional Passover ritual. True to Socalled, the songs on the album were performed in a variety of styles, with artists including country singer Katie Moore, rapper Killah Priest, and […]

Many of the Eastern European Jews who immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century wanted to partake in “real” American life –including American foods and beverages. In 1935, an Orthodox rabbi in Atlanta, Tobias Geffen, spent several years working with the  Coca-Cola Company to determine whether Coke was kosher. He faced one major problem: the recipe for Coca-Cola was one […]

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