The Garden Terrace on the roof of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Jerusalem feels like another world, not a bad thing these days. The setting is enchanting, with rattans sofas and chairs separated by trees strung with fairy lights. It’s a beautiful place to relax and enjoy the cool Jerusalem night air. The wait staff…
There are so many ways to enjoy the libation-focused holiday of Purim. With the instruction to drink until you don’t know the difference between the good Mordechi and the evil Haman, you have Jewish tradition egging on indulgence. (Having said that, we recommend you indulge wisely.) Here are a few of our favorite Purim-focused cocktails,…
It’s the dawn of a new day, and I need a drink. Luckily, I’ve dug up a neat little collection of cocktail recipes — all created in what now seems like a different era — which offer fortification in various forms of rye, gin, vodka, Mahia, Drambuie, prosecco and Arak. Saturday, the marchers marched with…
Peru’s flagship drink will be sold for the first time in Israel, according to the South American country’s foreign trade officials. The pisco will be available in bars and restaurants initially only in Tel Aviv. “The pisco will compete with drinks already positioned in this market. We are confident that Israelis will get more familiar…
In every Torah portion, there’s an alcoholic drink just waiting to be discovered. So says amateur bartender Andrea Frazier and her fellow Kiddush Club devotees on Chicago’s South Side. Frazier has created a boozy, parsha-themed blog, “Tippling Through The Torah,” whose premise is that the weekly Torah portion can best be appreciated when accompanied by…
Other people’s kids: You see them born, you see them grow, you write reviews of them. That’s how I feel about the fifth-annual Whisky Jewbilee that took place on June 15. I was there at its birth — the only national correspondent in attendance at the first Whisky Jewbilee in 2012 as it opened in…
Merrymaking and over-indulgence are encouraged in Purim celebrations. Esther’s good looks, luck and wherewithal saved the Jews in the Persian Empire from being annihilated. What followed, on the 14th of Adar, was the world’s first Purim party, an occasion of great levity. Purim is an occasion to be loose, relaxed and happy, and, perhaps, to…
Allen Katz, co-founder of New York Distilling Company. Not long into my interview with Allen Katz, co-founder (with Tom Potter) of , I decided I wanted to meet his parents. More specifically, I wanted to go back in time and be invited over to Katz’s childhood Baltimore home for Friday night dinner, to meet his…
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