Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Why Some Jews Won’t Eat Meat This Week
This week may not be the best week to fire up the grill for your Jewish friends, as some Jews won’t be eating meat this week. On the Jewish calendar, it’s the Hebrew month of Av — and when Av enters, we ‘decrease our joy,’ as per the Talmud (Mishnah, Taanis 26b). As any carnivore…
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Food Starbucks Deemed Non-Kosher By Rabbis
Starbucks has never been 100% kosher, per se (and we’re not talking about its illusions of third-wave coffee grandeur). For years, it has been functionally kosher, with certification groups like STAR-K providing customers with information about what they can comfortably drink – and what they can’t. That just ended. The STAR-K kosher information program, which…
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Food Israeli Chefs Are Learning How To Make Authentic Chinese Food
As the number of Chinese tourists visiting Israel rises, Israeli chefs are preparing to give these visitors what they want: Authentic Chinese cuisine, for a taste of home. As Xinhua revealed,, the Israeli tourism industry has organized a series of Chinese cooking masterclasses as a way of keeping Chinese tourists feeling welcome. 113,600 Chinese tourists…
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The Schmooze Adam Sandler Partakes In A Time-Honored Jewish Tradition
We must interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this news alert: Adam Sandler visited a bagel shop in Montreal and he seemed to enjoy himself. Yes, it’s another time-honored Jewish tradition done by an eminent Jewish celebrity. The time-honored tradition being, of course, fleeing the concrete jungle of New York for the more…
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Food The Jewish Deli Revival Is In Full Swing
While the casual New York deli may be on the decline, a new day of national Jewish delis has dawned. Jewish delis are going international, with new locations opening in places as unusual as Denver, Colorado and Tokyo, Japan. Here’s a roundup of all the new delis that opened in 2018 that are worth paying…
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Food NoHo Gets New Kosher, Vegetarian Hummus Place
NoHo, Manhattan (named for being North of Houston Street, as opposed to SoHo), is an area famous for its cutthroat real estate, its historical landmarks, like the Astor Library and The Public Theater, and its rapid slide into gentrification over the early 2000s. One thing NoHo’s never been known for? Its kosher meal options. As…
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Food In Barbados, Chabad Turns To Local Cuisine
Nestled in Worthing, Barbados, is a Chabad House run by Rabbi Eli and Sterna Chaikin since 2017 —the 11th Chabad center in the Caribbean to date. There aren’t a lot of Jews living in Barbados. There aren’t even a lot of Jews passing through Barbados. In 1929 the last Jew in Barbados left, ending 300…
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Food Meet The Next Superfood: Crickets.
Could crickets be the next superfood? Crickets have 3 times the amount of protein as beef. 90% of a cricket is edible, as compared to less than 50% of a cow, creating a less wasteful environment. Crickets use a fraction of the land and water that cows use. But people aren’t exactly raring at the…
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