VIDEO: Watch us make a delicious vegetarian version of the Shabbat stew — cholent
Both the dish and the word first appeared in the Ashkenazi Jewish community of France about 800 years ago
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Vegans are so annoying, right? Sorry insecure carnivores, longtime vegan Natalie Portman has the perfect counter for you: “Lots of people make fun of anybody who cares about anything deeply, right?” Portman asked a group of 16,000 high school students in California. “I’m here to say, it is always a great thing to care…to have…
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Opinion Anti-Semitic Environmentalism Is The Latest Social Justice Threat To Jews
As a young writer living in California, I find progressive spaces are practically unavoidable. I can’t walk down Santa Monica without someone suggesting I try veganism, nor go to my screenwriting group without a colleague suggesting I add a President Trump joke because Hollywood is all about the resistance. As an intersectional feminist, you’d think…
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Community Want To Save The World The Jewish Way? Become A Vegetarian
My summer camp had a funny mealtime tradition. When the kitchen staff was planning a special dessert, for which we would need to hang onto a utensil after the dishes were cleared, they would ask one table of campers to announce it to the dining hall. Those campers would, in unison, pound on their table…
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Food WeWork Goes Vegetarian, Banning Meat From Its Offices
WeWork, the company owned by Shabbat-keeping billionaire Adam Neumann, is going vegetarian in an effort to reduce its carbon footprint. WeWork is a company selling access to shared workspaces, that has been honored as a traditional workspace disruptor, that is now effectively banning meat at all company-wide events, refusing to reimburse employees for lunches that…
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Food Was Jesus A Vegetarian — Along With An Ancient Jewish Sect?
When it comes to the history of vegetarianism, Jews have been swearing off meat for a very long time. “See, I give you every seed-bearing plant that is upon all the earth, and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit; they shall be yours for food,” it is written in Genesis 1:29. Many scholars take this…
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The Schmooze PETA Begs Newly-Vegetarian Drake To End His Partnership With Canada Goose
Who could ever forget that time Drake danced inside a box bathed in colored fluorescent lights for his music video, Hotline Bling. Clad in a red Moncler puffer, he showed off the kind of awkward dance moves that is endemic to a middle aged suburban dad who is trying too hard to be “hip” at…
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Food Kosher Sushi Gets Gorgeous Makeover As Jewish Chefs Lead Vegan Charge
Call it nouveau vegan: As diners demand more healthful options, plant-based cuisine is having a moment — and Jewish chefs are leading the charge. One of the pioneers is Guy Vaknin, whose 5-year-old Beyond Sushi has exploded from a modest counter in Manhattan’s East Village to a five-restaurant chainlet. Days after Vaknin and his wife/business…
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