Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food NYC’s Coolest Sandwich Spot Is A Tiny Storefront Run By An Israeli Couple
View this post on Instagram From our neighbor @vidalbenbasat. Thank you! A post shared by Foxface (@foxface_nyc) on Dec 29, 2018 at 6:03pm PST The secret’s out: Manhattan’s coolest sandwich spot is a tiny East Village storefront run by a young Israeli couple who lives upstairs. And it’s got a very Jewish backstory. Foxface scored…
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The Schmooze Is It Time To Sit Shiva For Barneys New York, The Iconic Store With Jewish Roots?
At least give them this: Barneys New York is right on trend. Amid a spate of retail closings and bankruptcies, the high-end chain filed chapter 11 this week, partly precipitated by a gigantic rent increase at its splashy Manhattan flagship. For the iconic fashion name with Jewish roots, it’s a sad development – and possibly…
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Food This Miami-Based Israeli Chef Is Here To Teach You How To Properly Use Spices
Amid this year’s bumper crop of Israeli cookbooks, Miami-based Yaniv Cohen has found a new angle. The Israeli-born chef, who bills himself as The Spice Detective, just published My Spiced Kitchen, his first collection of recipes; every dish comes with a breezy treatise on the spice it features. Cohen, who runs Miami’s Jaffa by the…
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Food Brooklyn’s ‘Rainbow Bagel’ Closes Because Of Tax Evasion
Whether or not rainbow bagels should exist in the first place is a question we’ll save for another time. In the meantime, the Brooklyn birthplace of the infamous Rainbow Bagel – that’s a trademarked term, thank you – was forced to close this week after New York State’s Department of Taxation and Finance accused its…
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Life Meet Philly’s LGBTQ Advocate And Sex Educator, Galia Godel
In seventh grade, she came out as a lesbian – “dyke was my label”. Then, “pansexual” felt right. After that, she thought she might be straight – then bi. She finally settled on “queer”. It helps that Galia Godel’s had such a wide-ranging journey. The Philadelphia sexuality educator – and rabbi’s granddaughter – has become…
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Food Diller’s Kosher Fried Pickles Is Now Open On The Lower East Side
What kind of extravagant, elaborate cuisine takes more than two years to reach the dining public? How about fried pickles? That’s the specialty at Diller, a kosher joint on Manhattan’s Lower East Side that has finally opened many, many months after its owners announced their plans. View this post on Instagram TOMORROW!! Grand opening! See…
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Food Pastrami Queen In Times Square Is Closing
When kosher deli Pastrami Queen expanded to Times Square’s Pearl Hotel in March, we marveled that Jewish delis had become hot in hospitality — think Mile End Deli at Nashville’s Fairlane and Zobler’s inside London’s Ned hotel. Maybe we spoke too soon. Just three months after a splashy opening, Midtown’s Pastrami Queen has gone to…
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Food Modernist Israeli Restaurant ‘Shook’ Opens In Toronto
With the recent opening of Shook in the city’s Entertainment District, Toronto’s gaining traction as a hub of next-generation, Israeli-inspired cuisine. The airy, sprawling Shook joins over-the-top Semitic palace Fat Pasha and industrial-chic Parallel as Hebrew-accented hotspots on the city’s polyglot dining scene. Toronto’s also where Cafe Landwer, the Israeli-owned “Middle Easter diner,” opened its…
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