Secularism articles

  • ‘No pickles? No deli’: archetypal American ‘secular Jewish space’ gains due regard

    I’ll Have What She’s Having, at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC, is a celebration of the delicatessen and its place in US cultureCate Thurston remembers the moment her team settled on what to call an exhibition about Jewish delis in America. “We kind of just said it as a joke,” the co-curator says. “It was a former colleague who said, ‘You could call it this,’ and we all had a laugh. And then we thought, wait, no, we could call it that!”The title they chose: I’ll Have What She’s...