Creating Community: Jewish Recipes and Stories.

Following up on our latest #TJHTalk, we continue our deep dive into the marvelous world of Jewish cuisine. Together with the POLIN Museum and its TISH* Jewish Food Festival, we invite you to a special webinar on how recipes and their stories bring us together.

The starting point for our conversation is a groundbreaking book of contemporary recipes inspired by Jewish traditions. The Community Table: Recipes and Stories from the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan and Beyond, co-authored by Katja Goldman, Judy Bernstein Bunzl, and Lisa Rotmil, highlights a vibrant and eclectic Jewish community and celebrates its many flavors.

The episode will also explore connections between Jewish and Polish cuisines and their current creative reinterpretations, culminating in sharing a special challah recipe: the staple of every Jewish holiday table.

Kat­ja Gold­man is known as the unof­fi­cial chal­lah teacher of the Upper West Side, hav­ing taught lit­er­al­ly hun­dreds of com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers to bake chal­lah. She co-authored the Empire Kosher Chick­en Cook­book: 225 Easy and Ele­gant Recipes for Poul­try and Great Side Dish­es, as well as Community Table with Judy Bunzl and Lisa Rotmil. Kat­ja was a co-founder of YIVO’s Food as Roots pro­gram and is very active in Jew­ish community life. She was also a co-founder of the Slice of Life Bak­ery in Cam­bridge, MA, and an exec­u­tive chef for Bar­clays Bank.

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. Her books include Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki); and They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Mayer Kirshenblatt). She has contributed entries on Jewish cookbooks and Jewish food to the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Encyclopedia Judaica, Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, and is an avid cookbook collector. She received the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Joy Levitt is the Executive Director at JCC Manhattan. Prior to coming to the JCC, she served as a congregational rabbi on Long Island and in New Jersey. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a Master’s degree from New York University. She was ordained at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She is the founder of the Jewish Journey Project, an initiative designed to revolutionize afternoon Jewish education for children, and the co-author of A Night of Questions: A Passover Haggadah. She serves on the boards of the Shefa School, a new Jewish community day school for children with language-based learning disabilities, and Plaza Jewish Community Chapels. She is married to Rabbi Michael Strassfeld and together they have five children.

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