Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food All Your Questions About Jews And Chocolate Answered
Did Jewish refugees bring the art of chocolate making to Bayonne, France? What is a chocolate stone? Was George Washington a big chocolate drinker? What’s the difference between slow chocolate and fast chocolate? The woman who possesses the answers to these questions of our time is Rabbi Debbie Prinz, the foremost expert in our time…
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Food 2 New Kosher Restaurants Opening On The Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore isn’t exactly the most Jewish place. Unlike the boardwalk on Miami Beach, or Cleveland, Ohio, the Jersey Shore is known for its pizza joints and salt water taffy than its kosher diners. But in Deal, New Jersey, a summer resort town popular in the Syrian Jewish community, new kosher restaurants keep cropping…
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Food Quai James Does Teshuva At Jewish Soup Kitchen
Quai James is setting an example for how to move on after making a mistake. The 25-year-old from Yonkers who posted a viral video mocking and berating a young Hasidic boy, along with a subsequent, equally viral apology, spent some time volunteering at Masbia, a Jewish soup kitchen. Five hundred people lined up to collect…
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Food Kosher Pizza And Sushi: An Orthodox Love Story
Judaism is a highly food-centric religion. Maybe the most food-centric of all the religions. Every holiday has its own special foods, every food has its own special blessing, or bracha, before and after eating. Among the potpourri of traditional Jewish dishes, from cholent to borscht to schnitzel to schug — somehow, American Orthodox Jews have…
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Fast Forward Aaron Schlossberg Is Not Just Racist — He’s Also A Bodyshamer
“Maybe you shouldn’t eat that sandwich,” the bigoted man harassing Latina women in a Midtown deli said. “Maybe you should take a break from the food.” This was after threatening to get the women deported, complaining about paying for their welfare and generally throwing an intolerant hissy fit because the women and others in the…
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Food Amsterdam Kosher Restaurant Closes Down After Anti-Semitic Attack
Recently, there’s been a string of anti-Semitic assaults against kosher restaurants in Europe. In December, a 29-year old Syrian asylum seeker holding a Palestinian flag smashed the windows of the glatt kosher Carmel Restaurant in Amsterdam and broke into the restaurant, for which he was later charged with vandalism. The shop owner, Sami Bar-On, decided…
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Recipes How To Make Shavuot Vegan When The Main Attraction Is Cheesecake?
Eating our weight in cheesecake is pretty much what the holiday of Shavuot is all about…But is there a vegan-friendly way to celebrate the giving of the Torah? Israeli vegan trailblazer Merav Barzilay might have some answers. She’s the owner of some of Israel’s top organic restaurants, like the Meshek Barzilay Restaurant (with charming menus…
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Food A very Forward guide to Shavuot
Shavuot is fast creeping up on us. It’s the holiday of decadent dairy indulgence, the time when one too many plates of cheesecake can wreak havoc on an unsuspecting Jewish stomach. It’s the celebration of the giving of the Torah, when the Jews became the chosen people, and when the chosen people chosen to declare…
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