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Anna Rahmanan, a writer and editor in New York, is founder of the site Pretty Kosher.

Lehrhaus is intended to be a “Jewish space where people could encounter the best of the Jewish world—from food to drinks and history,” its co-founder told JNS.
“It’s too soon to know whether he just had a brief moment or the beginning of a longer moment,” the curator and scholar Ori Soltes told JNS.
“Ten places saying they make New York bagels actually make different bagels,” Adam Goldberg, owner of PopUp Bagels, told JNS.
“It fits nicely within the Jewish community,” David Meubauei, who owns a kosher ice cream shop in Brooklyn, told JNS.
The owner of the nearly 65-year-old bakery told JNS that he sells some 20% more of the triangular pastries during the Purim season.
From fear to anger to protection, we start brainstorming ways to change the world to accommodate our children.
“It’s something we don’t often see in our tradition, and people are responding to that,” Emanuel Masheyev, of Chief Smokehouse, told JNS.
The Jewish Federation gathering in Washington “was a worthwhile investment from a business perspective,” said Stan Steinreich, who used to meet clients at AIPAC.
Although this year has been “less catastrophic” than the last on campus, “we continue to see extraordinary ugliness around the country,” Kenneth Marcus, of the Brandeis Center, told JNS.
“There have been periods in my life where my Jewishness has felt neutral or even a form of self-loathing,” an actress in the play told JNS. “That’s worthy of exploration.”
“When you group up with a specific cuisine and culture being the vantage point for comfort and love, it becomes so ingrained in your being,” he told JNS.
“The other side screams and shows fear,” one attendee told JNS. “We present joy and happiness.”