Melin­da Strauss has amassed a fol­low­ing on social media (@therealmelindastrauss) of over 1.2 mil­lion, a space where peo­ple feel com­fort­able ask­ing ques­tions about Judaism, learn about her fam­i­ly’s cus­toms, and can’t get enough of her Jew­ish recipes and sto­ries. Pri­or to her social media suc­cess, Melin­da was a full-time food blog­ger with hun­dreds of recipes on her web­site, melin​das​trauss​.com.