Inheriting a Lost Legacy Located in Little Palestine, just southwest of Chicago, is a pastry shop continuing a legacy that began back in 1896. Knafa Kataifi prepares several types of Knafeh from scratch, but is most famous for their Knafeh Nabulseyeh, made with golden brown fine pastry dough, stretchy Nabulsi cheese, and soaked in sweet sugar syrup. However, a recent addition has been added to their menu, Knafa Arabiya, a savory version of Knafeh that substitutes cheese with nuts, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Uncommon even when Gaza still stood, this desert was barely, if at all, affordable for the residents of Gaza, and almost impossible to get through Israel's border restrictions. This recipe was adopted from The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey , as a form of remembrance of one of the most famous Gaza sweets shop, Abu Al Saoud, or Saqallah's sweet shop, whose family home was bombed by an Israeli air raid in 2023 ju...
Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (Иван Иванович Иванов), a 25-year-old man from the northern Siberian region Irkutsk, has just completed his 5th divorce and says, [He's] looking forward to the 6th wedding, but [he] would not mind trying again with a 7th." His fluctuating marital status is particularly high, but such high marriage and divorce rates are by no means unique in northern Russia, where there is a severe shortage of men. The Gender Ratio of young men to women ages 35 and below has reached 85 men to 100 women. Combined with increasing rates of young adults who are uninterested in marriage, it is expected that millions of women will be unable to find a husband unless they migrate further south or out of the country entirely. Reports from the Russian News Agency TASS state that these ratios are exaggerated and a more accurate estimate of the ratio is closer to 98 men to 100 women, but several laws have already been passed in an attempt to bolster birt...