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"I'll Have What She's Having" is an exhibit that explores the history of Jewish delis in America.

Jewish American delis: A story of culture, community and survival

Culture

Food is, of course, an important part of culture. A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois, is exploring the role delis have played in Jewish culture and history. In America, many delis were founded by Holocaust survivors.

Fania Lewando, a restaurant owner in Poland before World War II, wrote a Yiddish cookbook that reveals a vibrant Jewish vegetarian tradition.

Jewish vegetarians say you don’t have to make brisket for Passover — and they’ve got the recipes to prove it

Food
Just in time for Passover, Ben and Jerry's is offering vanilla ice cream with a swirl of charoset straight from the seder table.

Forget Cherry Garcia. How about Ben and Jerry’s Passover ice cream?

Food
An archival photo of matzo-making at Streit's on the Lower East Side; things haven't changed all that much at the factory over the decades.

A family that’s made matzo on the Lower East Side for nearly a century prepares to leave the neighborhood

Food
Poopa

Tamarind is the ‘sour secret of Syrian cooking’

Lifestyle & Belief
A French tourist eats a kosher McDonalds hamburger with a potato-starch bun in downtown Jerusalem.

Israeli restaurants get creative on Passover with imitation bread, pizza, and bagels

Lifestyle & Belief

Secular Israelis who crave bread during the Passover holiday are traveling abroad in droves these days. They’re replaced in Israel by Jews from around the world who fly in to soak in the Passover atmosphere. In recent years, Israeli restaurants have been catering to Passover-observant Jews by preparing imitation bread products for their customers. Secular Israelis who crave bread during the Passover holiday are traveling abroad in droves these days. They’re replaced in Israel by Jews from around the world who fly in to soak in the Passover atmosphere. In recent years, Israeli restaurants have been catering to Passover-observant Jews by preparing imitation bread products for their customers.

When Jews lived in the Soviet Union, they had to hide their matzah in suitcases

Lifestyle & Belief

In the years after World War II, it became illegal to make Passover matzah in Soviet synagogues. So local Jews instead started baking matzah at home, in secret.

When Jews lived in the Soviet Union, they had to hide their matzah in suitcases

Lifestyle & Belief

In the years after World War II, it became illegal to make Passover matzah in Soviet synagogues. So local Jews instead started baking matzah at home, in secret.

War, religious-themed restaurants in Ukraine spark controversy

Yurko Nazaruk opened a restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine that is designed to look like the sort of underground bunkers used by insurgents during World War II. It was so successful he opened one that’s themed after the country’s Jewish community, all but wiped out during the war, Lviv-born writer Leopold van Sacher Masoch, who lent his name to masochism. But not everyone is pleased.

Montreal Smoked Meat

Home of ‘Best’ Smoked Meat Sandwich

Arts, Culture & Media

For the Geo Quiz, we are looking for a Canadian city that is home to some of the world’s best smoked-meat sandwiches.