Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
-
Food Why The Kosher Market Is Growing 13% A Year
New research from Absolute Reports has revealed that the global kosher food market will be maintaining an annual average growth rate of 13.09% by 2017-2021. So what’s driving the ever-expanding kosher market? Urbanization, the population shift from rural areas to cities and towns where more kosher goods are sold (and it’s easier to satisfy that…
-
Food Is There Such A Thing As A Delicious Hamantasch?
On February 25, 2018, Twitter was set aflame. The cause of the turmoil? Acclaimed writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s very public and prolongued disavowal of the festive food of her people, the hamantasch. I know the Internet is as bad as it gets these days, and I sure don’t mean to make it worse, but I have…
-
Food Roasting Rabbi Coffee Is Here To Change Your Life, One Blessed Cup At A Time
Legend has it that coffee was born on one auspicious day in 6th or 7th century Ethiopia — or so Rabbi Micah Becker-Klein tells me — when a goat farmer named Kaldi noticed that his goats were acting livelier than their usual sluggish selves. The goats had been eating red berries. Kaldi tried some himself…
-
The Schmooze Chrissy Teigen And The Israeli Embassy Make Unlikely Cooking Partners
Chrissy Teigen, model, de-motivational speaker (as per her Twitter) and celebrated social media voice of reason, has finally turned to Israeli cuisine. The cookbook author fired off a tweet about cooking Israeli food, all the necessary accoutrements in place, from tahini to za’atar to figs. The Embassy of Israel was quick to reply. Israelis everywhere…
-
Food Making Kansas Kosher
What images spring to mind when you think of Kansas? Toto, Dorothy, sunflowers and the Old Cowtown Museum, right? Well, now it’s time to add kosher kitchens to the mix. There were 17,425 Jews in Kansas as of 2016, making them 0.6% of the state’s population. And while Kansas is perhaps no capital of kosher…
-
Food Poland’s Proposed New Law Limiting Kosher Slaughter Is Anti-Semitic. Here’s Why.
A new Polish bill proposes to limit kosher slaughter, in a move that has been internationally interpreted by Jews as anti-Semitic. But kosher slaughter is evil, you protest. Surely the world is better off free from the scourge of cruel, old-fashioned, unnecessary ruthless murder and torment that haunts Eastern Europe? Not so fast. Poland has…
-
Food The Bittersweet History Of Hamantaschen Might Not Be So Bitter After All
If you’ve been getting ready for Purim by obsessively baking varieties of these triangular cookies (may I advise avoiding the chocolate chips and using fresh, tart raspberry jam instead) — you might be wondering exactly how they came to be such iconographic representations of Judaism. Worry not, because you’re about to find out. If you…
-
Food Meet The Healthy Kosher Cookie Queen
Chocolate chip cookies are not exactly synonymous with health, but when you talk about Sweet Loren’s, the woman-owned, nationally distributed cookie dough company, health is exactly what you’re talking about. Growing up in New York, Loren Brill was always interested in health and wellness. Then tragedy struck. “Right after I graduated college I got sick…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
- 2
News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
- 3
Film & TV Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?
- 4
News What Mike Huckabee’s ‘Kids Guide to Israel’ says about his views
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion My pre-Thanksgiving challenge: hugging a turkey
-
Opinion Israel’s boycott of Haaretz is straight out of the authoritarian playbook
-
Fast Forward Killing of Israeli rabbi in UAE could strengthen ties between Israel and Arab neighbors, experts say
-
Opinion Despair is not a strategy. Here are 4 things those mourning the election results can do right now.
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
