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Jews

A crispy golden flower.

Carciofi alla Giudia

Created in Rome's Jewish ghetto, the fried artichokes herald spring.

Alheira

This sausage saved Jews' lives in Inquisition-era Portugal.

Maror in three forms: a mixture of grated horseradish, beets, and sugar; endive lettuce; and horseradish root.

Maror

The bitter herb served on Passover can be anything from horseradish to lettuce.

Temple Beth Shalom.

Temple Beth Shalom

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.

Talmud Business Hotel

Taichung City, Taiwan

Talmud Business Hotel

A hotel in Taiwan based on the better business practices that can be gleaned from Jewish law.

The building where Otto Weidt made brushes and hid Jews

Berlin, Germany

Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

Prague, Czechia

Olšany Cemetery

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Why Linguists Are Fascinated by the American Jewish Accent

The linguistic field of prosody, the story of melody, pitch, and other hard-to-study verbal traits, is suddenly hot.

Dan Nosowitz September 26, 2016