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In “Falastin: A Cookbook,” Sami Tamimi cooks with tradition, love and politics
Co-authoring the bestselling “Jerusalem: A Cookbook” in 2012 with business partner Yotam Ottolenghi made Sami Tamimi realize he’d someday do a cookbook of Palestinian food. Tamimi, a Palestinian Arab born in Jerusalem, has been with Ottolenghi, a Jewish Jerusalemite, since the beginning, often working as an executive chef. For this book, he has teamed up…
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Juneteenth Shabbat: Liberation, legacy, and reckoning with America’s history of slavery | #TweetYourShabbat
Shabbat falls on June 19th this year, coinciding with Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the liberation of enslaved Americans and the end of slavery. I’ve chosen to celebrate both holidays this year and I encourage you to as well. Tema Smith argues that American Jews should celebrate Juneteenth every year, and this year, with all…
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Juneteenth Shabbat: Liberation, legacy, and reckoning with America’s history of slavery I #TweetYourShabbat
Shabbat falls on June 19th this year, coinciding with Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the liberation of enslaved Americans and the end of slavery. I’ve chosen to celebrate both holidays this year and I encourage you to as well. Tema Smith argues that American Jews should celebrate Juneteenth every year, and this year, with all…
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Shabbat is still coming: grief, resilience, and joy | #TweetYourShabbat
I am trying to make an impossible summer as sweet as possible for my child. This week there was deep exhaustion and sadness. Despite it all, Shabbat still comes Within grief, and loss, and hardship, we need to find new ways to be resilient. I find resilience in insisting on joy. That’s what Shabbat is…
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On Shabbat, cooking for grief
People grieve in different ways. Black people across America have been grieving. Grieving George Floyd. Grieving Breonna Taylor. Grieving Ahmad Aubrey. Grieving the loss of life from COVID-19, which has disproportionately affected black people. In my house, we grieve these losses as our own. They are our own. They are us. Just as those lost…
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‘What does a newly minted lactose avoider do on the milkiest of Jewish holidays?’
'No, really, I don’t want any cheesecake'
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Tired too? Try double chocolate cheesecake truffles I #TweetYourShabbat
I am worn out. You are too. I have a preschooler and I work multiple jobs, so I am used to being tired. A full 8 hours of sleep is an occasional luxury. That said, the past two months have been grueling. School has been closed since Mar. 12, so I have added “teacher” to…
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Shavuot’s Seven Heaven Challah
The breathtaking Seven Heaven Challah brings a diversity of Jewish experiences and palates to your festive Shavuot table. A lesser-known Sephardi custom, it mixes together the celebration of the wheat harvest of Shavuot, Chag Hakatzir, (the Harvest Festival) with the customary milk-based foods associated with the revelation of Torah at Mount Sinai. Also called Los…
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Why I make these sirniki, or Russian cheese pancakes, for Shavuot [VIDEO]
If you read and discuss enough biblical commentary and ask why ancient figures didn’t do things along what we today think of as “Jewish” lines, you often get the response of ‘Well, they didn’t have the Torah yet. They didn’t know.’ It’s always been a point of comfort for me as someone who was raised…
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Better-than-Ratner’s cheese blintz
If you’re from New York, the name Ratner’s gives you dewy-eyed nostalgia for the great dairy restaurant of yore. But I’m from LA, and Ratner’s just makes me think of my dentist, Dr. Farkas, whose office is on Ratner St. There’s a connection– Alex Ratner came west in 1914 to beat back tuberculosis, and he…
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Jay Sanderson’s Beet Variations
A culinary Zoom with the CEO of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles
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