Tag: Cultural Exchange

Poyke, a meal cooked over a campfire and often enjoyed in the IDF, has become a staple that brings soldiers together.
Jewish students at the University of Surrey in the UK have set up a pop-up Pesach caf on campus, providing Pesach-compliant foods and a kitchen for students to prepare their meals during the Passover festival.
Kehillah Jewish High School in Palo Alto, California, known for its multicultural approach, is expanding its student recruitment to mainland China due to difficulties with the Israel-Hamas war.
Israeli students from Shaar HaNegev Regional High School visited San Diego Jewish Academy as part of a people-to-people exchange following the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.
In this article, the author reminisces about a favorite snack they used to prepare for a toddler they cared for in Israel.
Davids Brisket House, a Muslim-owned delicatessen in Brooklyn, has become known for its exceptional Jewish pastrami and brisket.
The Elijah Cummings Youth Project (ECYP) is a 25-year partnership between Baltimore's Black and Jewish communities aimed at fostering understanding and connections between the two groups.
In a discussion hosted by Jonathan Schwab and Yael Steiner, the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry is explored as a period characterized by cultural exchange and collaboration among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Iberian Peninsula.
The author describes their experience of celebrating their non-Jewish friend's holiday, Christmas, and how it allowed them to appreciate and understand another culture without straying from their own Jewish identity.
In the Outremont neighborhood of Montreal, Hasidic residents have been praying on their balconies during COVID-19, creating a sense of harmony and cultural exchange.
Simone Weichselbaum, a half Jamaican, half German-Jewish woman, founded Kugel in response to feeling out of place in her fianc's homogeneous Jewish community.
A father, originally an immigrant, recounts a narrative involving car damage, online purchase of a car door, and a potentially risky encounter to buy it in a neighborhood unfamiliar to him, with his 4-year-old daughter in tow.
Portland, Maine is experiencing a resurgence in Jewish food with the emergence of delis and bakeries like Rose Foods, Union Bagel, and Ten Ten Pi offering traditional Jewish dishes such as babkas, challahs, and knishes.