Mayflower, Shmayflower

user submitted pictureForget those dang white-bread Pilgrims! Historians are celebrating the 350th year of the first Jewish settlers’ touchdown on American shores (that’s the year 1654, for the mathematically-challenged.) Of course, all the cooking, cleaning and housewarming was done by some tough-ass Jewish wives and mamas, as chronicled in The Jewish Women’s Archive. Next time we get pissy about not having a dishwasher, we’ll remember times have been much, much harder…

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