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Amsterdam Kosher Restaurant Closes Down After Anti-Semitic Attack
Recently, there’s been a string of anti-Semitic assaults against kosher restaurants in Europe. In December, a 29-year old Syrian asylum seeker holding a Palestinian flag smashed the windows of the glatt kosher Carmel Restaurant in Amsterdam and broke into the restaurant, for which he was later charged with vandalism. The shop owner, Sami Bar-On, decided…
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McDonald’s Surrenders To The Magic Of Bagels
What’s next, the McBlintz? To much fanfare north of the border, bagels made their debut at McDonald’s locations across Canada this week. The new breakfast offering “aligns with Canadians’ love of bagels”, the company crowed in a press release. It’s also the company’s latest attempt to capture more of the booming breakfast market – the…
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Recipes How To Make Shavuot Vegan When The Main Attraction Is Cheesecake?
Eating our weight in cheesecake is pretty much what the holiday of Shavuot is all about…But is there a vegan-friendly way to celebrate the giving of the Torah? Israeli vegan trailblazer Merav Barzilay might have some answers. She’s the owner of some of Israel’s top organic restaurants, like the Meshek Barzilay Restaurant (with charming menus…
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Recipes Vegan Banana Spelt Muffins For Shavuot
In vegan baking, binding material is needed to unite all the ingredients, which is a role usually played by eggs in baking. Usually applesauce does the trick as a substitute, but in this recipe it is not necessary because the bananas themselves are binding material. Coconut oil helps in the final formulation of the batter…
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A very Forward guide to Shavuot
Shavuot is fast creeping up on us. It’s the holiday of decadent dairy indulgence, the time when one too many plates of cheesecake can wreak havoc on an unsuspecting Jewish stomach. It’s the celebration of the giving of the Torah, when the Jews became the chosen people, and when the chosen people chosen to declare…
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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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‘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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This Mother’s Day, Go Back To Basics With Churros Waffles
Churros Waffles with Warm Chocolate Dipping Sauce Pareve Yield 8-10 waffles To be honest, I struggled with the decision to place these in the breakfast chapter or the dessert chapter. Churros waffles are certainly great for dessert, but sometimes … you just need a real “special occasion” breakfast, and they are perfect for those times….
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Recipes Big Daddy’s (Kosher) Fish Soup
Ingredients: 2 lbs. fish heads, bones and trimmings 3 cups water 1 cup dry white wine 2/3 cups sliced onions 2 celery tops with sleeves 3 sprigs of parsley 1 bay leaf 1/4 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 cup olive oil 2 lbs., each of 3 kinds of fish fillets, such as flounder, red snapper, redfish,…
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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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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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