Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food 10 Israeli Restaurants Make The Cut For International ‘Ethical Dining’ Guidebook
Not one Jewish or kosher eatery in the US made the cut for a new global guidebook that ranks restaurants by “truth, love and care” along with food. But in Israel, ten restos qualified for Truth, Love, & Clean Cutlery, whose criteria include organic, sustainable, and ethical considerations. Among them: Gems like Tel Aviv vegan…
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Life Meet The Forward’s Fearless Women In Journalism Award Recipients
Introduction By Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Forward CEO and publisher You’re about to meet five remarkable Jewish women whose achievements have helped shape journalism — and our world. With the Forward’s Fearless Women in Journalism awards, we’re doing more than honoring them. We’re thanking them. Each confronted obstacles and disproved naysayers. Lynn Povich and her Newsweek…
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Food How A Holocaust Survivor Made The Four Seasons The Home Of The “Power Lunch”
I only ate at Manhattan’s old Four Seasons once, but its history – and its place in the firmament of New York City dining – always fascinated me. So I’d heard the names Thomas Margittai and Paul Kovi, who bought the failing restaurant from its original owner in 1973. I knew the pair had transformed…
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Food Where To Find The Best Doughnuts In NYC and Philadelphia
Along with the other miracles at Chanukah, we’ve got sufganiyot to celebrate. Typically jelly-filled, the round Israeli donuts take on ever-more decadent forms every year. With that in mind, here’s our very selective list of 2018’s best: Breads Bakery At Manhattan carb mecca Breads, owner Gadi Peleg and crew offer typically irresistible sufganiyot in strawberry,…
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Food Carnegie Deli Returns As Pop-Up For ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’
That Mrs. Maisel has got some chutzpah. First, she says things no 1950s housewife should utter. Now, she’s resurrecting the Carnegie Deli. To celebrate a new season of runaway hit The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Amazon Studios is bringing the Carnegie back as a weeklong popup, December 1-8 in Soho. “While it may be 2018 on…
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Food Shoo Shoo Is The Latest Middle Eastern Restaurant To Open In New York
Nur, Dez, NishNush, Miss Ada, Timna, Shuka…. The more Middle-Eastern joints seem to open, the more New Yorkers seem to flock to them. And the latest to hang up a Mediterranean-flavored shingle is Shoo Shoo, which started serving its spin on staples like falafel, hummus, sabich, and shakshuka last week. A few things distinguish this…
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Food Is Toronto Home To The World’s Best Falafel?
Could the world’s best falafel come from a former industrial building on a quiet street just north of downtown Toronto? I’m already waiting for blowback from that statement, but the herb-infused, bright-green orbs I had at Parallel looked, tasted, and smelled like no falafel I’ve experienced anywhere. Some backstory: I’d set out to write about…
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Art How Rube Goldberg Made America Complicated Again
You push a button. A spring releases a bowling ball, which hurtles down a ramp toward a switch that uncages a bird, whose beak twirls a dial that activates the printer that spits out your ticket. That’s not actually how admission to “The Art of Rube Goldberg” works, but it’s how the legendary cartoonist might…
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