It's true! We stopped at the Tenement Museum Bookstore on Orchard Street yesterday and had a happy surprise! Smack dab center on the long...

Budsies.com created dolls that look just like Solly and Benny, two boys in my new storybook, The Knish War on Rivington Street. They'll...

Today, my two worlds collided in a delightful way. Weeks ago, wearing my toy reviewer hat for toyportfolio.com, I received a doll in the...

Miles asked his Grandpa James (aka as "BaBa") to read his G-G's* The Knish War on Rivington Street. Miles must be my youngest fan and I...

My good friend, Jean Marzollo, the author of many wonderful books, including the well loved series of I Spy books, recently read The...

In 1916 the Literary Digest, a popular magazine, reported that on the Lower East Side the newest “most popular viand” of the day was none...

In 1916 when the knish war heated up, when Benny and Solly’s fathers were cutting the knish prices one cent at a time, the penny was...

I thought I had exhausted all the stories about the historic knish war until yesterday, when I turned up yet another publication, the...

Back in the day, when the New York Times wrote about the Knish War down on Rivington Street (Jan. 1916) the writer (not identified by...