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'Traditional' Jewish American foods keep changing, with cookbooks playing an influential role in how Jews mark Rosh Hashana

  • Written by Deborah Dash Moore, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of History and Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
'Traditional' Jewish American foods keep changing, with cookbooks playing an influential role in how Jews mark Rosh HashanaJudaism possesses an elaborate system that determines what foods Jews can eat and which ones can be eaten together.Rafael Ben-Ari/Photodisc via Getty Images

The end of August inaugurated the Hebrew month of Elul, when Jews all over the world start getting ready for the High Holidays: the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashana followed 10 days later by the...

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