Things I Like: Writing Essays

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How I’m Resurrecting My Judaism Amid Israel’s War on Gaza

I consider my family’s tzimmes—slow-cooked sweet potatoes and carrots with baking spices and brown sugar—to be my mother’s recipe, but she would attribute it to my late grandmother Molly, my bubbe. We always ate tzimmes at the holidays; sometimes, we ate it on Sundays, too. My mother’s …