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Don’t start dipping. This isn’t a dip, it’s a spread. Take a knife and spread a thin layer over your hot slice of challah. You only need a bit. I enjoyed this spread at...

Use more or less Cajun seasoning, depending on how spicy you like your fries. Do you love spicy fries from the pizza shop? Want all the spice without the calories? These baked fries deliver spicy,...

Some recipes don’t need to be followed exactly. My neighbor prepares these without the pomegranate seeds and scallions, but the combo is perfect together. —Leah 1 pound sugar snap peas 3 garlic cloves, crushed (or 3 frozen...

The discovery of the Cairo Genizah, the storehouse of medieval manuscripts and documents in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Fustat, Old Cairo, in the late nineteenth century has led to a virtual rediscovery of...

People think being a financial planner only involves crunching numbers for billionaires who have too much money for their own good. Invest in stocks or commodities? Put all your eggs in one basket or...

It's the sound that greets me first, the gentle murmur of roughly a dozen women at least 20 years my senior coming from somewhere within the depths of the house. A few steps later...

When my mother passed away, it wasn’t only her children and grandchildren who felt the void. The entire community mourned her petirah. My mother, a”h, was a one-woman chesed dynamo. She spent her days raising...

When I was growing up there was a joke going around, attributed to the Satmar Rebbe, zt”l, that the driving distance between Williamsburg and Boro Park was 18 minutes—the exact time it takes for...

When I was 18 I was drafted into the IDF, and a year later I became one of the original members of the elite undercover unit known as Yamas (Yechidat Mistaarvim). The unit is...