BEATING
BOBBY PASS THE LATKES
Essen owner Tova du Plessis defeats
Bobby Flay in a cooking showdown.

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NMAJH Digitizes
Core Exhibits
in Virtual
‘Revolution’ Page 4
SASHA ROGELBERG | JE STAFF
GIVING THE NATIONAL MUSEUM of American
Jewish History launched a virtual tour of
its core exhibit on Nov. 14, digitizing the
museum’s permanent exhibits across the
building’s three stories.

Th e project’s completion was enabled
by the undisclosed fi nancial support of
Jewish philanthropist George Blumenthal,
who has been involved with NMAJH
periodically since 2014 when he and
frequent collaborator and Israeli digiti-
zation expert Ardon Bar-Hama digitized
NMAJH’s “Chasing Dreams: Baseball and
Becoming American” special exhibit.

“Ever since I became involved with
NMAJH to help digitize the 2014 special
exhibition, ‘Chasing Dreams: Baseball and
Becoming American’, I’ve been interested
in expanding access to the museum’s core
exhibition,” Blumenthal said in a press
release. “As a Jewish American, I know
how important it is to tell the story of
our people in this country. Now, NMAJH
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Number 34
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Latkes are the big Chanukah order at local delis.

Courtesy of The Kibitz Room
Jewish Delis See Latke
Surges on Chanukah
JARRAD SAFFREN | JE STAFF
WHEN ASKED WHY LATKES are his
annual Chanukah bestseller, Schlesinger’s
Deli owner Allan Domb echoed Tevye
from “Fiddler on the Roof.”
“It’s tradition,” Domb said.

Other deli owners in the Philadelphia
area said the same thing. To nobody’s
surprise, latkes, or potato pancakes, are
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their best-selling item during Chanukah
each year.

Jeremy Th omas, the owner of Manny’s
in Holland, sells thousands of them
during the Festival of Lights. Th is is triple
and sometimes quadruple the number he
sells in a normal week.

Th e same thing is happening this
year, too, according to Th omas and other
deli owners.

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