What a Muslim baker and a Jewish recipe can teach us about coexistence

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We have made coexistence sound far more complicated than it needs to be. We organize panels about it, argue over who qualifies to speak about it, and ask people to defend their decision to reach across a religious or cultural divide.

Meanwhile, a Muslim baker learned to make babka from a Jewish woman and sent it to a black man who grew up Christian and had never even heard of babka.

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