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Recipes Rye Flour Kimchi Latkes
This recipe, a signature of new Jewish deli Rye Society, is an exciting twist on the classic Jewish dish. Makes approx. 20 Latkes Ingredients: 2-pounds potatoes 1 yellow onion 2 eggs 1/2 cup rye flour 1/4 teaspoon baking powder 3 teaspoon kosher salt 1 cup kimchi 1 tablespoon lemon juice Dead Sea salt to taste…
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Food Starbucks Deemed Non-Kosher By Rabbis
Starbucks has never been 100% kosher, per se (and we’re not talking about its illusions of third-wave coffee grandeur). For years, it has been functionally kosher, with certification groups like STAR-K providing customers with information about what they can comfortably drink – and what they can’t. That just ended. The STAR-K kosher information program, which…
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Food Israeli Chefs Are Learning How To Make Authentic Chinese Food
As the number of Chinese tourists visiting Israel rises, Israeli chefs are preparing to give these visitors what they want: Authentic Chinese cuisine, for a taste of home. As Xinhua revealed,, the Israeli tourism industry has organized a series of Chinese cooking masterclasses as a way of keeping Chinese tourists feeling welcome. 113,600 Chinese tourists…
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The Schmooze Adam Sandler Partakes In A Time-Honored Jewish Tradition
We must interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this news alert: Adam Sandler visited a bagel shop in Montreal and he seemed to enjoy himself. Yes, it’s another time-honored Jewish tradition done by an eminent Jewish celebrity. The time-honored tradition being, of course, fleeing the concrete jungle of New York for the more…
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Food The Jewish Deli Revival Is In Full Swing
While the casual New York deli may be on the decline, a new day of national Jewish delis has dawned. Jewish delis are going international, with new locations opening in places as unusual as Denver, Colorado and Tokyo, Japan. Here’s a roundup of all the new delis that opened in 2018 that are worth paying…
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Food McDonald’s Reports Record Sales in Israel
2017 was a good year for McDonald’s in Israel, and 2018 may just be better. The company has reached a peak of NIS 870 million (over $240.5 million) in sales last year and is expecting to reach NIS 1 billion (approximately $276.6 million) in 2018, Alonyal Ltd., the owner of the global fast-food chain’s Israeli…
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Food Their Mom Died Of Cancer; They Published A Cookbook In Her Memory
Joanne Godel-Blatt was “an outstanding cook”, her son Oliver remembers. So when the mother of two died of cancer last July, Oliver and his sister Georgia turned to food to celebrate her memory. The result is DoDo’s Delights: Joanne Godel-Blatt’s Recipes for Cooking and Living with Soul, a self-published cookbook the Toronto siblings released in…
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Food In Barbados, Chabad Turns To Local Cuisine
Nestled in Worthing, Barbados, is a Chabad House run by Rabbi Eli and Sterna Chaikin since 2017 —the 11th Chabad center in the Caribbean to date. There aren’t a lot of Jews living in Barbados. There aren’t even a lot of Jews passing through Barbados. In 1929 the last Jew in Barbados left, ending 300…
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