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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

bagels

The closed storefront of the Detroit Institute of Bagels in Detroit, Michigan, after staff walked out in protest of the store's new 'Zionist' owner, July 31, 2024. (Andrew Lapin/JTA)
August 11, 2024, 1:43 am
A Jewish bagel shop in Detroit closes after staff walk out on new ‘Zionist’ owner
Tensions over perceived gentrification and the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict came to a head last month when workers publicly quit, making waves throughout the metro area
By Andrew Lapin
Andrew Martinez, owner of Bo's Bagels, boils bagel dough balls in his store on July 12, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
August 21, 2023, 4:02 am
How bagels have schmeared across NYC history
With 500 specialty shops across the city, the ring-shaped bread has evolved and been reinvented since Polish Jewish immigrants brought it over more than a century ago
By John BIERS
Andrew Martinez, owner of Bo's Bagels, bakes bagels in his store's oven on July 12, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)
August 21, 2023, 3:45 am
Making dough: Unlikely Harlem joint makes quick rise to the NYC bagel big leagues
In less than a decade, Bo’s has become one of city’s most well-respected bagel shops, filling what owner says was a vacuum in the historically Black neighborhood
By John BIERS
With nearly 35 years of experience at appetizing shops between them, Sean Brownlee, left, and Felix Placencia opened Simply Nova in East Williamsburg one year ago. (Lana Schwartz/ New York Jewish Week via JTA)
February 17, 2023, 4:35 pm
An East Williamsburg appetizing shop offers its customers ‘a taste of nostalgia’
In a town of trend-chasers and mechanical customer service, the newly opened Simply Nova brings old-school charm to its Jewish cuisine with New York roots
By Lana Schwartz
An illustrative photo of a variety of bagels. (Photo by Vicky Ng on Unsplash, free to use under the Unsplash License)
October 21, 2022, 5:41 am
Bitter battle between two bagel shops boils over in Columbus
A heated dispute between two Jewish shop owners in Ohio city has resulted in a lawsuit and a restraining order
By Andrew Lapin
Goldie's Bagels in Columbia, MO is giving away free bagels and coffee to those who cannot afford to pay. (JTA)
September 4, 2022, 2:17 pm
Missouri bagel shop goes viral for Talmudic effort to feed unhoused
A former campus Hillel educator, Goldie’s Bagels founder Amanda Rainey aims to imbue Jewish values into its daily operations
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative: Bagels (Wikimedia Commons viaJTA)
January 15, 2022, 2:40 am
The most popular bagels in New York, according to GrubHub
The ‘everything’ is the most popular bagel, Utopia Bagels out in Whitestone, Queens is number one and the top order is a not-very-kosher ‘bacon, egg and cheese
By julia GERGELY
The crowd at Tompkin's Square Bagels’ 2nd Avenue location was steady and reasonably calm on Monday morning despite reports of a cream cheese shortage. (Julia Gergely via JTA)
December 7, 2021, 5:30 am
Despite looming cream cheese shortage, NY bagel shops are still laying it on thick
While reports of imminent catastrophe rock Jewish New Yorkers, store owners vow they won’t compromise their cream cheese-to-bagel ratio
By julia GERGELY
Duolingo is giving users who order in Yiddish a free bagel on the course launch date. (Duolingo)
April 4, 2021, 6:43 am
How a secular scholar and some NY Hasidic Jews set up Duolingo’s Yiddish course
Popular language-learning app has a bissel obstacles to overcome before hitting screens — with a side of bagels and schmear — on April 6
By Gabe Friedman
Nick Goldstein's grandfather Dave, left, and father, Ian, in a photo from earlier days of the family business. (Courtesy of Goldstein Smoked Salmon/ via JTA)
March 8, 2021, 4:53 am
New York lox company booms during pandemic – by selling British smoked salmon
It may sound sacrilegious to New Yorkers, but most who taste London-style salmon are won over by its delicate taste – and UK native Simon Joseph’s booming import business is proof
By Amanda Gordon
US President Joe Biden waves as he departs after attending Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
January 25, 2021, 12:25 am
Biden’s first stop after church, a ‘Jew-ish’ deli
After Sunday Mass, presidential motorcade stops at ‘Call Your Mother,’ owned by his COVID czar, to pick up some sesame bagels
By Gabe Friedman
Tons of frozen bagel went up in flames when a semi's rear axle caught fire, October 6, 2019. (Courtesy of the Indiana State Police via JTA)
October 8, 2019, 9:44 pm
38,000 pounds of bagels burnt in truck days before Yom Kippur
Indiana state trooper notices smoking vehicle but too late to save the goods from becoming toast
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: Police are seen in a traffic jam as people leave town during preparations for hurricane Irma in Miami, Florida on September 8, 2017. (Michele Eve Sandberg/AFP)
May 13, 2019, 12:26 am
Miami man arrested for threatening to ‘get rid’ of Jews in calls to bagel shop
Suspect told restaurant owners he would ‘expose’ them after asking if they were Jewish; vowed to ‘make sure you can’t overpopulate’
By Marcy Oster
Bagels sliced like bread cause internet outrage. (Twitter)
March 30, 2019, 6:05 am
Here’s how Panera’s former co-owner defends the bread-sliced bagel
After online uproar, Israeli ex-manager of bakery chain says St. Louis-style bagels started as ‘an accident’ that later ‘caught fire’ with customers
By Ben Sales
Bagels sliced like bread cause internet outrage. (Twitter)
March 28, 2019, 7:01 am
Sliced bagel ‘crime’ sparks internet outrage
Turns out residents of St. Louis slice their bagels like bread. The internet was having none of it
By ToI Staff
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