Just about every Jewish holiday has its own signature dessert: Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, is ushered in with honey cake; Passover is celebrated with macaroons, Hanukkah has chocolate candy ...

You might not have heard of hamantaschen (pronounced hah-mentash-in) or Purim, the Jewish holiday these shaped filled cookies represent, but this tasty treat might just become your favorite ...

The Jewish holiday of Purim begins on Monday, March 6 bringing with it opportunities to eat more hamantaschen and learn about the culinary story behind the celebration. Foods eaten around Purim vary, ...

This week at Breads Bakery in New York City, one cookie is bound to outsell the rest. "Hamantaschen are the most perfect little cookie," said owner Gadi Peleg. "The most requested item that we get to ...

With the festival of Purim just around the corner, this year marks the long-awaited return of Not Your Bubbe’s Hamantaschen, a student-run nonprofit currently operating from the Bayit — Tufts’ Jewish ...

Buttery cookie dough, wrapped around a sweet and chewy filling: By any name, these treats are fun to make and delightful to eat — yet they’re named for one of the archvillains of the Hebrew Bible.

(New York Jewish Week) — In Borough Park, Brooklyn, a massive bakery thinks it has found the secret ingredient to baking hundreds of thousands of hamantaschen every Purim season. “Love,” Tvzi ...

To say things are bustling in the kitchen at Breads Bakery in Union Square this week would be a massive understatement, as a team of bakers handcrafts the triangle-shaped, filled cookies traditionally ...

(JTA) — My mother always loved to cook and bake, but I was never welcome in the kitchen. Not every night before dinner, not before Shabbat when she made challah every week, and not in the leadup to ...