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Holy Canarsie those bagels look amazing!!!!! And one should always match their bagel spread with their outfit, I’ll be gussied up in green for the spinach artichoke with brie and walnuts when I go.

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A charming interview. What some of us call a cultrural Jew, or secular Jew, this bagel meister knows he is Jewish but does not seem to wallow in his Jewishness but nonetheless embraces it in his own way.

The history of the bagel in this country is fascinatiig. Once thought of as mostly a Jewish food or snack, it is now a mainstream item. Jews now can say with pride: We gave the world monotheism and the bagel

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Solid opening line. Where is national kubbeh day?? Gotta be honest that’d be a delight . Today is national cheese lovers day 🧀🧀🧀 for anyone wondering here!

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I love bagels and I love this article. My favorite bagel place was in Hartsdale, NY. I always got a tuna fish on a plain bagel and sometimes we snuck there for lunch from high school. It was called The Bagel Emporium. But now I want to go to utopia bagels in Queens. I was raised as a secular Jew but now I attend Shabbat some Fridays so I am getting more religious.

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