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Food 1,000 NYC Kids to Bake Challah for Homeless
More than 1,000 Jewish children from across New York City will gather at the Grand Hyatt on Super Bowl Sunday to make challah — one loaf to take home and one for a family in need. The 2nd annual Mega Challah Bake for Kids was organized by parents from across New York City, in partnership…
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Food Here’s What a Deli Would Look Like If Your Ancestors Landed in Miami Instead of Ellis Island
Zak Stern can understand why a Miami newspaper called his new deli “New York-style and Florida-sourced.” But the cheerful, soft-spoken proprietor of Zak the Baker says they got it wrong. “It’s what my ancestors would have opened if they’d landed in Miami instead of Ellis Island,” Stern said. “Ashkenazi Jewish food, but with fish and…
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Food How To Open a Kosher Restaurant in Moscow
Asian and Mediterranean cuisines are the stars at Jaffa, a new kosher restaurant in a high-end Moscow mall. The menu also dives into what’s known as Odessa cuisine — “traditional dishes of Eastern European Jews,” according to general manager Semen Boguslavsky. “Moscow has just a few kosher restaurants, so people who keep kosher have to…
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Food How Trump Team Stole Inauguration Cake Design From Jewish Baker
While President Donald Trump promises to take the country in an entirely new direction, the cake he sliced with a sword at an inaugural ball Friday night told a different story. It was a copy of the cake Jewish pastry chef and Food Network star Duff Goldman made for Barack Obama’s second inauguration in 2013….
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Recipes 6 Sustaining Jewish Snacks to Make for a March
Here are some high-energy, easy-to-eat-en-route, sustaining snacks to make and share along the march route. So fill a thermos with hot soup, a baggie with spiced nuts or good granola, or a small sac of cookies packed with nutritious, delicious ingredients. For a more substantial meal to eat with one hand while holding a sign…
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Food As More Jews Go Vegan, So Does Birthright
This summer, for the first time, American young adults will have the opportunity to take a Birthright trip that’s specifically vegan. Jewish Veg, a U.S. nonprofit that encourages Jews to transition toward plant-based diets, announced today that it is organizing the trip with Mayanot Israel, a leading organizer of Birthright Israel tours. Until I talked…
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Food Top Food Trends to Taste in 2017
There was a time, in the not-so-distant past, when it felt like the foods of the Ashkenazi culinary canon needed saving. Pastrami, once a well-spiced meat, had turned into a salty ghost of its former self; matzo balls wallowed in flavorless broth, and bagels had become puffed-up versions of what they once were. Thankfully, a…
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Food Deli Is Dubbed Solomon’s To Honor Tower Records Founder
If you’re a music lover of a certain age, you probably have fond memories of Tower Records, the gargantuan stores that seemed to carry every audible work ever recorded. Now, a Sacramento deli is being named in honor of Tower founder and native son Russ Solomon, who is 91. Solomon’s Deli will open in late…
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