Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food Ancient Tunisian-Jewish Tradition Involves Writing Prayers — On Eggs
If you’ve never written your hopes for the future on an egg to take the oldest Jewish synagogue on an annual pilgrimage in Djerba, Tunisia — maybe it’s time to try it. As Reuters recently reported, Jews and Muslims alike carried candles and inscribed eggs together to celebrate Tunisia as a country of freedom and…
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Food ‘Hot Dudes And Hummus’ Pushes Israel — With Beefcake
Matt Taibbi once called the Internet “an escapist paradise for the emotionally overwhelmed.” I like to to think of it as that, and simultaneously as a dystopian hideaway where people can choose to be informationally overwhelmed. But however we like to think of the Internet, one thing stands out. The beloved Instagram account Hot Dudes…
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The Schmooze Fox Makes Its Worst Mistake Yet And Cancels Brooklyn 99
Put on your black mourning frocks, cover all the windows in your house and crack open the doors for seven days because it’s time to sit shiva for Brooklyn 99. The show, which was too good for this bloody, lonely world, has been cancelled by Fox to make way for the return of right-wing Tim…
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Food How To Make Creole Cuisine Kosher (Hint: Start By Leaving Out Shellfish)
There’s a dearth of female celebrity chefs in the stratosphere right now. But even more tragic than all that is considering the female chefs whose culinary contributions are not widely known, to whom history hasn’t given its due. One such woman was Mildred Lubritz Covert. Who? You’re probably asking. She doesn’t have the name recognition…
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Food In Ancient Jewish Texts, Bread Was A Euphemism For Sex. Here’s Why.
“Cooking is one of those arts which most requires to be done by persons of a religious nature.” — Alfred North Whitehead Bread or sex? It’s a time-honored question, with its attendant subtexts. Would you rather engage in pleasures of the flesh or devour a bunch of doughnuts? With gluten allergies on the rise, maybe…
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Food Rachael Ray Is Moving On From Just Cooking Shows
In a profile in The New York Times, Rachael Ray has revealed that she is entering her second act. The article was chock full of exciting trivia for Rachael Ray diehards: She washes and irons her own sheets! She’s compared to a friendly shark that needs constant motion to survive! She’s insanely rich but also…
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Food Netanyahu Served Chocolate Pralines In A Shoe To Japan’s Shinzo Abe
When it comes to food, Israel likes to stay on the cutting edge – most of the time. Occasionally there’s a misstep, like dessert hummus. Sometimes there’s a miscalculation, like tahini martinis. And every now and then there’s a diplomatic disaster with repercussions that may reach far beyond the food world. What happened to Israeli…
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Food Steve Mnuchin Gives Kushner $21 Bottle of Non-Kosher Wine
He might be a millionaire 300 times over, but he certainly doesn’t drink like one. The Secretary of Treasury headed over to Jared Kushner’s house for a weekend hang, the Daily Mail reports, and brought along a 2015 Arbalest Red Bordeaux Blend. This [non-kosher] wine is a red blend (81% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Sauvignon and…
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