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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When my toddler daughter first became infatuated with a certain bear family who live on a sunny dirt road deep in Bear County, I had the vague notion that the Berenstain Bears were Jewish. That was merely based on their last name, which Mama, Papa, Sister, Brother and Honey share with their creators, Stan and Jan Berenstain, the married couple who created the classic story series in 1962.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The design for the U.S. Postal Service 2026 Hanukkah stamp was revealed last month — and the story behind it has us kvelling. The first Hanukkah stamp was released in 1996. (It’s worth noting that the first Christmas stamp was released in 1962.) That design — a colorful, collaged menorah that was jointly issued with Israel — served as the de facto Hanukkah Stamp until 2004, when the USPS changed to a roughly bi annual design update.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An interview with Jackie Tohn is a mechayeh — it gives life. In general I feel like that particular Yiddish word — mechayeh — shouldn’t be said unless you have a luscious white mustache and a regal mane of white hair, or you grew up actually speaking Yiddish on the regular. But as the youth (used to?) say: Jackie Tohn definitely gives me life.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s never a bad time to sit indoors and have a little TV binging marathon — especially when there’s just so much great Jewish TV on the biggest streamers of them all, Netflix. These shows will take you to Turkey, Mexico and even Egypt; they tell the true stories of spies and kidnappings and the fantastical fictions of every day life; they’re comedies, reality shows and dramas; the stories are full of romance and intrigue and relatable human moments.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’ve organized my life in a paper planner for decades. Every year I’d buy a beautiful planner to manage my tasks, appointments and kids’ schedules, and every year I’d pencil in Jewish holidays and Shabbat candle-lighting times around a calendar that starts in January, smack in the middle of a Hebrew year that began the previous September.

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When you tune in to season three of “Nobody Wants This” sometime later this year, don’t be too surprised if you see Karlie Kloss get a writing credit. In a recent interview for the Bloomberg Original series “The Circuit,” the 33-year-old Jewish model revealed that she has found the hot rabbi Netflix show extremely relatable.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Cries of “one bam!” and “two dot!” echoed through the halls of the Museum of Jewish Heritage as New York’s first-ever Jewish Mah Jongg Festival drew more than 350 lovers of the popular tile-based game to Lower Manhattan on Sunday and Monday.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This piece originally ran on Jewish TV Club. Have you ever visited a grocery store in Israel? It’s an incredible multi-sensory experience. At the bakery section, there are trays laden with burekas and rugelach, sometimes stale, sometimes wafting the most delicious aroma.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Where do you shop for a Jewish summer camp wardrobe? If you’re costume designer Ava Hama and dressing the cast of Jewish summer camp movie “The Floaters,” you’re shopping everywhere from J. Crew to the bulk bins of vintage warehouses — and you’re absolutely nailing the look.