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Tamara Cohen has sold challah along with bagels every week since she opened Mazál. (Shira Li Bartov/ JTA)
January 29, 2026, 5:21 am
Her ancestors were expelled from Spain. Now she’s bringing bagels to Madrid
After proving ancestry and getting Spanish citizenship, Tamara Cohen found herself in a Jewish food desert. Her restaurant, Mazal, is providing a nosh for Jews and non-Jews alike
By Shira Li Bartov
April 18, 2025, 9:44 pm
‘New Absolute Bagel’ sign stirs fretful optimism in New York City
Beloved Upper West Side bagel shop, which abruptly closed in December, appears to tease a second coming, under new management
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Some of Starship Bagel's award-winning fare. (Screenshot/YouTube)
April 5, 2025, 9:56 am
Texas bakery is first bagel shop to be named James Beard Award finalist
Starship Bagel was founded by Oren Salomon in order to bring New York-style bagels to the Lone Star state
By Grace Gilson
New York Bagel Bakery in Philadelphia has served kosher-keeping customers for decades. Its longtime owner was recently accused of antisemitism, a charge he denies. (Screenshot from Google Maps via JTA)
March 21, 2025, 12:42 am
Longtime Palestinian owner of Philly kosher bagel store schmeared over Oct. 7 posts
After 27 years serving the community, Nick Sammoudi is the subject of an online petition as customers ask for his certification to be revoked amid claims he’s leading a double life
By Ben Sales
Illustrative photo of bagels. (CC-BY-SA, Rattfink Press/Ellen Arnstein, rattfinkpress.blogspot.com)
March 14, 2025, 3:55 pm
US bagel shop comes back around after quitting Jewish food fest over Israel pressure
Isaac’s Bagels bites off more than it can chew; is roundly criticized for signing up for and then for backing out of event organized by Jewish federation in North Carolina
By PHILISSA CRAMER
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 via JTA)
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
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