Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food How To Handle The Great Hummus Shortage Of 2018
Hummus has been in the news a lot lately, causing controversy over its origins (Israeli? Arab? Who knows?) but for all the hummus lovers out there, the worst news is yet to come. A global chickpea shortage has struck the world, driven by poor crops in some of the chickpea producing countries of the world….
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Food Kosher Pizza Goes Avant-Garde
It’s been a tough year for Basil, the upscale pizzeria turned Mediterranean restaurant that credits itself with bringing Kosher fine dining to trendy Crown Heights. First they sued a competing pizza restaurant, Calabria, for violating the halachic law of “hasagat givul,” which literally means boundary infringement and refers to unfair business competition that seeks to…
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News Who Is Sholom Rubashkin, Explained
An overview of the controversial case that divided the Jewish world and sent a religious businessman to jail. Who is Sholom Rubashkin? Sholom Rubashkin is a Jewish, religious 57-year-old husband, father of 10 and businessman. He was the chief executive of Agriprocessors, a kosher slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. He’s served eight years…
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News What Is Agriprocessors, Explained
What is Agriprocessors? Agriprocessors was the name of the kosher slaughterhouse and meatpacking factory in Postville, Iowa, owned by Sholom Rubashkin. Purchased in 1897 by Aaron Rubashkin, who passed down the company to his sons, Heshy and Sholom Rubashkin, the company eventually became the largest kosher meat-packing plant in the United States. Agriprocessors’ history of…
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The Schmooze Netflix Has Abandoned The Jews
Netflix has announced its top 10 shows of 2017. These are the shows that we Americans chose to “chill” to, or watched with glazed eyes, drool dribbling out of the corners of our mouths into microwaved TV dinners. Netflix quantifies a binge as watching more than two hours a day. Its members watched more than…
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Film & TV ‘The Shape Of Water’ Is A Biblical Meditation On Transcendent Love
There’s an old joke: Two fish are swimming around in a fishbowl when one asks, “How’s the water?” “What the hell is water?” the other fish responds. In “The Shape Of Water,” Guillermo del Toro’s newest tour de force film, the lonely, mute Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is miserably acclimated to her everyday, mundane routine —…
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The Schmooze Seth Rogen Takes A Stand Against Steve Bannon
Seth Rogen, stoner, manchild, Jew and now social justice warrior? I was supposed to do a press tour on @SIRIUSXM on teusday but I’m no longer doing it because I can’t bring myself to appear on the same service that has decided to support Steve Bannon. Apologies to the shows I had to cancel. And…
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The Schmooze ‘Justice League’ Banned In Ramallah Because Of Gal Gadot
Wonder Woman is universal. She’s got superhuman strength, a Lasso of Truth, an invisible jet and she’s beyond time and space. Or is she? The film “Justice League,” starring Israeli Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, has been banned from Ramallah for breaking censorship rules. Palestine Cinema Tower, the largest Palestinian film distributor, announced the news…
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