This article originally appeared on The Nosher.
Many home cooks this past year, in an Instagram-inspired spirit, upped their challah-baking game with new braiding patterns, interesting flavors and vibrant colors. Yet it was a more standard ingredient...
Maxie Rosenbloom was one tough Jew.
Born September 6, 1904, in Leonard’s Bridge, Connecticut, Maxie Rosenblum grew up and leaned to box in Harlem's Union Settlement in New York. He turned pro in 1923, and slowly rose up the ranks of the sport.
On...
Born Ezra Jack Katz in Brooklyn to Polish Jewish immigrants in 1916, Keats was a largely self-taught artist who would go on to become the trailblazing children's book author of "The Snowy Day, the most checked out book of all time at the New York Public...
The award-winning English film and television actress Helena Bonham Carter probably could have gone on to a career in diplomacy had acting not so caught her fancy. She certainly had the family legacy: Her grandfather was Eduardo Propper de Callejon,...
Robert Adler was a brilliant physicist and inventor who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, came to the U.S. to help discover innovations like the electric beam parametric amplifier and touch-screen technology. But he is best-known as “the father of the...
This article originally appeared at forward.com. Reposted with permission.
When the 2021-22 National Hockey League season opens this October, the Seattle Kraken will be the first professional Emerald City team since the Totems folded in 1975.
But,...
Born 1910 as Sophia Kosow in The Bronx, New York to Russian-Jewish immigrants, she would become on the stage and film as actress Sylvia Sidney. Sidney rose to fame in the 1930s for playing the partner of gangsters and alongside the leading actors of...
It never fails! Since I started working a the St. Louis Jewish Light, I continue to be surprised by the breadth of Jewish accomplishments, but this one really came as a surprise. The very first star of Western films, Gilbert "Broncho Billy" Anderson,...
