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Roasted red pepper and herbed goat cheese sandwich (Photo by Jessica Grann)
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Roasted red pepper and herbed goat cheese sandwich
By Jessica Grann
A great recipe to have on hand if you like herby dips
Can 6 hours of Billy Joel turn critics into believers?
By PJ Grisar
We’re listening: Share your feedback and you could win $100
By Jim Busis
Roasted red pepper and herbed goat cheese sandwich (Photo by Jessica Grann)
July 18, 2025, 12:27 pm
Roasted red pepper and herbed goat cheese sandwich
A great recipe to have on hand if you like herby dips
By Jessica Grann
Billy Joel performing at Madison Square Garden in 2016 (Photo by slgckgc, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
July 17, 2025, 5:02 pm
Can 6 hours of Billy Joel turn critics into believers?
The HBO doc ‘And So it Goes’ makes the case for the Piano Man’s ongoing angst
By PJ Grisar
David Corenswet in “Superman” (Photo courtesy Warner Bros. Discovery via The Times of Israel)
July 14, 2025, 8:25 am
The new Superman movie doesn’t fly in the face of convention – and that’s a good thing
While it might vaguely touch on politics, the latest film featuring the Big Blue Boy Scout is light, clever and lands at just the right moment when it hits US theaters July 11
By Jordan Hoffman
Larry David speaks onstage during the Variety Business Managers Breakfast in West Hollywood, Calif., Nov. 19, 2024. (Tommaso Boddi/Variety via Getty Images)
July 11, 2025, 11:29 am
Larry David teams up with the Obamas to create comedy series about American history
The production combo sounds prettay, prettay, prettay good.
By Grace Gilson
Author, journalist and genealogist Dan Rottenerg is coming to Pittsburgh. (Photo courtesy of Dan Rottenberg)
July 11, 2025, 9:29 am
‘Father of Jewish Genealogy’ Dan Rottenberg to speak at Heinz History Center
'When you trace your ancestors, you learn more about yourself, you learn more about history, and you are able to place your ancestors in the context of history. It's a really personal way to tie yourself into the rest of the world'
By Adam Reinherz
Alan Iszauk at the bimah where he was bar mitzvahed, married, and still prays. The sanctuary’s blue stained-glass windows cast an ethereal glow onto the room. (Photo by Benyamin Cohen)
July 10, 2025, 9:37 am
This town lost most of its Jews. But not its Judaism
A century-old Orthodox synagogue in a Rust Belt town lost most of its congregation, its rabbis, and almost everything else — but not its daily minyan
By Benyamin Cohen
Flip’s almost famous gazpacho (Photo by Suzan Hauptman)
July 10, 2025, 8:46 am
Savoring stories: Flip’s almost famous gazpacho
Do you have a tried-and-true dish that comes with an interesting origin story? If so, we want to hear from you!
By Suzan Hauptman
The river Nid offers picturesque views in Trondheim, Norway, home to one of the northernmost Jewish communities in the world. (Getty Images)
July 9, 2025, 9:33 am
This northern Norway city has adopted a one-of-a-kind approach to observing Shabbat
The synagogue in Trondheim is marking its 100th anniversary in 2025.
By Dan Fellner
Professor Amos Tanay (L) and Professor Liran Shlush, the lead researchers at the Weizmann Institute Cancer Research Unit of the breakthrough in leukemia diagnostics. (Credit: Courtesy, via JNS)
July 3, 2025, 11:09 am
After missile strike, Weizmann lab publishes breakthrough leukemia research
A joint project led by Professors Liran Shlush and Amos Tanay could fundamentally change the means of diagnosis and treatment of this pernicious form of cancer.
By Tziona Gerson
Yafa Negrete and her child prepare stuffed grape leaves (Photo courtesy of Yafa Negrete)
July 2, 2025, 2:52 pm
Savoring Stories: Yabrak/ stuffed grape leaves/ taquitos de hojas de parra
Do you have a tried-and-true dish that comes with an interesting origin story? If so, we want to hear from you!
By Yafa Negrete
Pasta alla vodka (Photo by Jessica Grann)
June 27, 2025, 4:04 pm
Pasta alla vodka
A lighter cream sauce, with all the flavor
By Jessica Grann
A photo taken July 28, 1906, shows Jewish agricultural settlers mingling with gauchos and soldiers. (Courtesy of YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)
June 27, 2025, 2:37 pm
Otto Frank’s refugee file, a Rothschild Talmud and a menorah bong tell the story of the Jewish past — and future
YIVO’s centennial publication gives a glimpse of history through 100 objects
By PJ Grisar
Cynthia Speck and her son in 1983 (Photo by Donald J. Stetzer/ The Pittsburgh Press)
June 27, 2025, 8:59 am
Savoring stories: My great-grandmother’s pugatchels
Do you have a tried-and-true dish that comes with an interesting origin story? If so, we want to hear from you!
By Cynthia Speck
Almost-centenarian Lester Berkowitz holds a prayer book he received during World War II. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
June 26, 2025, 11:29 pm
Lester Berkowitz turns 100, but some stories still stay classified
Heroism and hushes collide as Squirrel Hill resident becomes centenarian
By Adam Reinherz
Hummingbird cake (Photo by Jessica Grann)
June 23, 2025, 5:24 pm
Hummingbird cake
Great with a cream cheese frosting, but the cake itself is pareve
By Jessica Grann
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