Michael Kaminer
By Michael Kaminer
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Food Cozy — and Kosher — in New Hampshire
What’s being billed as the first “luxury, year-round” kosher resort has opened in New Hampshire, of all places. The Arlington Hotel also boasts the “five-star” Birch Bistro, whose offerings even include “a decadent kosher continental breakfast.” Birch’s menu looks pretty middle-of-the-road, but beef tongue crustini [sic] and a pastrami on rye sub sound intriguing. More…
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Food The Demise of the Jewish Deli, Again
Lots of hand-wringing in Los Angeles over the closing of another Jerry’s Famous Deli, this one in suburban Woodland Hills. More Hot Dish It’s the fifth Jerry’s Famous to close in the last few years; three remain, in Marina del Rey, Encino and Studio City. Woodland Hills had been open 43 years. “Are we witnessing…
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Food 2 Chefs to Create Sensational Fusion Feast
A Jew and a Parsi walk into a restaurant… That’s not a setup for a punchline; it’s the premise of a very cool-sounding dinner next month in Decatur, Georgia, near Atlanta. Chef Todd Ginsberg of The General Muir, Atlanta’s terrific Jewish resto, will pair will Chef Meherwan Irani of local fave Chai Pani on a…
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Food Rye Project Is Toast
San Francisco deli The Rye Project has folded, JWeekly reports. Owner Adam Mesnick is blaming real-estate issues. When it opened on a gritty block in 2014, the “Newish Deli” drew raves for trad favorites like overstuffed sandwiches, bagels and lox and matzo-ball soup. Mesnick still operates Deli Board, another deli reboot in SF. More Hot…
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Culture How Jewish Comic Book Heroes Inspired Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop Art
Though he was the grandson of German-Jewish immigrants. Roy Lichtenstein played down his roots. But as a new exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles suggests, Lichtenstein’s Jewishness shaped the pop art pioneer’s career from his first experiments until the end of his life in 1997. “Lichtenstein’s story, in many ways, is an…
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Food BDS and Anti-Semitism Shutter Israeli Restaurant in Munich
Did Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) put a Jewish eatery out of business in Germany? The Jewish owner of Munich’s Schmock Israeli restaurant announced he’s closing after 16 years because of rising anti-Semitism — and strong anti-Israel sentiment — in the Bavarian capital. Florian Gleibs even placed a large sign in Schmock’s window reading: “We are…
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Food ‘JewBoy’ Burgers in Texas
JewBoy was Mo Pittle’s nickname growing up in El Paso, Texas — it was a Semitic spin on “homeboy.” Now, he’s embraced it with JewBoy Burgers, his new food truck in Austin. Look for Jewish-Latino mashups like the The Oy Vey Guey Burger, with Jack cheese, green chilies and jalapenos, and the Goyim, a bacon-and-grilled-pastrami…
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Food White-Hot Tel Aviv Dining Scene Gets Its Due
Tel Aviv’s white-hot food scene has long been on the radar of Forward readers, and word’s getting out big-time to the rest of the world. The Wall Street Journal just featured an ode to Tel Aviv restaurants including Halutzim 3, Yaffo Tel Aviv and Mizlala. A few days later, The Washington Post waxed rhapsodic about…
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