This includes two of the city's unique pastries, born out of its active Ashkenazic Jewish community: Russian tea biscuits and coconut bars. I not only enjoyed both of these delicious pastries ...

She shared a rugelach recipe. Rugelach is a traditional Jewish pastry made with a rich, flaky cream cheese-based dough, rolled around sweet fillings like fruit preserves, nuts or chocolate.

The simple answer is that the Jewish calendar is based on lunar cycles, and is not in sync with the Gregorian calendar which sets Christmas on Dec. 25. Hanukkah always begins on the 25th day of the ...