Alyssa Kapnik
By Alyssa Kapnik
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Food Don’t Eat That
There’s a restaurant in Denver, where I grew up, that attracts masses of people, mostly Jews, and serves pages and pages of Jewish food – latkes and matzah balls and bagels with capers, cream cheese, lox and red onion. They also serve bacon. And sausage. And ham. Meat from a most essentially non-kosher animal. So…
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Food A Taste for Keeping Kosher
Most of the time, I do what I want. It’s what’s so great about being an adult. I get to eat baked potatoes at midnight and watch terrible television by myself. I get to choose the music I listen to, the clothes I wear, the jobs I keep. I’ve kept kosher in my own way…
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