The Passover Seder offers a ritualized retelling of how the Israelites were delivered from bondage in Egypt. Even today, more than 3,000 years later, it’s quite a story. There’s also quite a story ...

But as a visitor from another religion, I had the same giddy sense of discovery that I might have had if I’d slipped in undetected. The experience was new for me on two levels. I had neither been to a ...

Savor the flavor and laugh along with the author as Reyna Simnegar teaches you about Persian cookery and life. Feldheim Publishing has done an outstanding job of presenting a handsome cookbook with ...

On Passover, Reyna Simnegar and her family will enjoy a Persian Seder. Many of the dishes served will be out of Simnegar’s new cookbook, “Persian Food From the Non-Persian Bride” (Feldheim Publishers, ...

Reyna Simnegar, author of "Persian Food From The Non-Persian Bride." (Courtesy of Reyna Simnegar) Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish holiday marking the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, began ...

A Venezuela-born, Catholic-raised Jew by choice, Reyna Simnegar was not her future mother-in-law's idea of a desirable match for her beloved son Sammy. The woman, a Persian Jew who fled Iran in the ...

When it was published – to considerable acclaim – in England last year, James Buchan’s “The Persian Bride” was titled “A Good Place to Die. The English title sets up more appropriate expectations ...

But as a visitor from another religion, I had the same giddy sense of discovery that I might have had if I’d slipped in undetected. The experience was new for me on two levels. I had neither been to a ...