Rachel Ringler
By Rachel Ringler
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News Blue and yellow macaroons? Jews find ways to add Ukraine to their Seders
Suzy Appelbaum sees her Passover Seders as teaching moments. This year, even though the Manhattan community activist is not making her own, she was determined to find ways to remember the war in Ukraine in her friends’ and family’s holiday celebration. “Doing nothing is not an option,” said Appelbaum. She was moved by the Hamantaschen…
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Fast Forward Hummus in space? Israeli-NASA project aims to help astronauts grow chickpeas
(JTA) — Like most Israelis, Yonatan Winetraub loves hummus, and its protein-packed base legume: the chickpea. But unlike most, Winetraub also has the ability to send chickpeas into space. Winetraub, 35, is one of the three founders of SpaceIL, an Israeli nonprofit best known for attempting to land a spaceship on the moon — the…
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Fast Forward Israeli noshery Sherry Herring opens in NYC — with ‘no Sherry and no herring’
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — Imagine arriving at the Pastrami Queen but finding no pastrami, or showing up at Holy Schnitzel to find its signature breaded chicken cutlet off the menu. To quote Tevye, sounds crazy, no? But that is exactly what will happen if you visit Sherry Herring, the Israeli eatery that…
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Recipes Persian, Greek, Moroccan and other Yom Kippur breakfast recipes, plus kugel
If you are an Ashkenazi American Jew, you might assume that all break-fast meals are the same: bagels, cream cheese, smoked salmon and whitefish, pickled herring, maybe a sweet kugel thrown in to balance the salty. But it’s a great big Jewish world out there and there are lots of delicious ways to end the…
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Food Kosher Brooklyn food blogger Chanie Apfelbaum goes Italian
When Chanie Apfelbaum, founder of the Busy in Brooklyn kosher food blog, returned from a trip she made to Italy this summer, she brought back a new mantra: “Scale it back,” she said. “Tone it down.” Apfelbaum, an observant Jew, lives in Brooklyn, has five children, a cookbook, “Millennial Kosher,” under her belt, another kosher…
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Recipes This Rosh Hashanah, let your honey be silan — date syrup
This Rosh Hashanah, eat like an ancient Israelite. Skip the bees’ honey and go for silan, a thick syrup made from dates that has been around the Middle East for millennia. Silan is made from the fruit of the towering date palm trees that are mentioned in the Bible and are often depicted in Jewish…
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Food Cooking show phenom Eitan Bernath, 19, is ready for Rosh Hashanah
The last time Eitan Bernath was featured in The Forward, he was a kippah-clad, 12-year old boy with braces on his teeth. He had just appeared on the Food Network’s cooking show, “Chopped.” Although he was chopped from “Chopped” back then, seven years later one could safely say that while he lost that battle, he…
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Food Fishwife brings elegance, taste and style to…canned fish?
When it comes to fish, crudo is cool. Ceviche is cool. But canned tuna and sardines? Not so much. Seven months ago, two 20-somethings set out to rectify that when they founded Fishwife, a company that sells tinned fish that is tasty, good for the planet, fancifully packaged, and healthy to boot. At the start…
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