staying alive
For D.C.’s kosher restaurants, chaos and community filled the pandemic year
A mix of luck, ingenuity, other jobs and cash have kept most of the restaurants in business

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Yael Krigman dips cakepops at her bakery, Baked by Yael, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 11, 2019.
It’s mid-March, the temperature in Washington, D.C., this week hit 70 degrees for the first time this year, and the city’s famed cherry blossoms will soon be in bloom. But the busloads of tourists and students that normally arrive...