Rob Eshman is a senior columnist for the Forward. Follow him on Instagram @foodaism and Twitter @foodaism or email eshman@forward.com.
Rob EshmanSenior Columnist
By Rob Eshman
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News The 10 Commandments of Zoom
Jewish life is now, officially, Zoom life. The meetings, meals, ceremonies, seminars, concerts, debates, panels and classes that defined Jewish life have, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, migrated to Zoom and other teleconference apps (but mostly to Zoom). Unfortunately, too many of us aren’t quite ready for prime time. What’s the right camera angle? What…
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Food How to cook a #QuarantineShabbat
Hard times call for easy Shabbat meals. This is a delicious, simple menu that can be conjured from items that — for now — are still easy to come by: chicken, cauliflower and greens. Combine with a challah and wine, and no one will feel deprived. Just the opposite: the pure flavors and natural ingredients…
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Food It’s Mimouna. You can’t have a party, but you can still make mufletas.
If you think seder is tough on Zoom, try mimouna, the Moroccan festival that marks Passover’s end. In normal times, Moroccan Jews throw open their doors and host friends and neighbors with tables full of sweets: candied fruits and vegetables, pastries drenched in syrups, all varieties of cookies and cakes. It’s too many people and…
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News The Humbling
The last time I spent Passover locked in a room I was 9 years old. My uncle refused to let me sit at the Seder table so long as I insisted on wearing a Mets cap instead of a yarmulke. To this day I’m not sure whether he exiled me because he was a stickler…
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News Blessed with enough food, family and Facetime to handle the crisis
When I got to the freezer aisle of my the Costco in Culver City, Calif., on Friday afternoon, there were nine kosher chickens left. I swung open the glass doors and started piling them in my shopping cart. “May I?” I turned. It was a young woman — I think. Black gloves covered her hands,…
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Community Why Were Some LA Jewish Organizations Silent During Trump’s Immigration Crisis?
The immediate crisis involving the separation of children from their parents at our Southern border seems to be receding. On June 26, a federal judge in California ordered that the policy of family separation be discontinued and that all separated families must be reunited. What will not recede as quickly is the memory of how…
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