Shira Feder
By Shira Feder
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Food 3 Top Jewish Foodies Dish On The Hottest Trends For 2018
From gourmet seltzer to jackfruit and ghee, 2018 is shaping up to be an interesting year. “I think, as a culture, we’re moving away from the “meat and potatoes” brand of eating,” Sylvia Fallas, a Brooklyn based cooking instructor and blogger, told me. “Local and seasonal vegetables are becoming the stars of our meals, and…
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Food When Shabbat Dinner Means Bacon Cheeseburgers At Wendy’s
Imagine the scene. It’s Friday night in Palm Desert, California, and you’ve got nothing to do, so why not head down to Wendy’s, the fast-food chain with 6,500-plus locations (none of them kosher)? At least that’s what this group of Jewish senior citizens thought. At Wendy’s, these seniors enjoy a weekly Shabbat dinner where they…
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Food What Do You Call Champagne In Hebrew?
Valentine’s Day isn’t exactly the most Jewish holiday. The holiday gets its name from Saint Valentine, who valiantly tried to preach the word of Jesus of Nazareth and ended up being executed by the Roman Emperor Claudius II for trying to convert Claudius to Christianity. These days, everyone from Jews to Christians celebrate a more…
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Food Behold The Bagel Emoji
In 1999, the first emoji was created in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita. In the nineteen years since then, the concept of the emoji attained critical mass, exploding into Western society and beyond. But never did the engineers behind the brilliance of ‘dancing girl emoji’ or ‘angry face with horns emoji’ consider the sheer cultural significance…
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The Schmooze Drake Pays For Everyone’s Groceries
The unsuspecting shoppers at Miami’s Sabor Tropical Supermarket were shaken to their cores when Drake, Jewish rapper and all around good Samaritan, swept in and paid over $50,000 for various groceries. Guille Deza, the recipient of one of these donations, told E! News that, “No one knew he was coming at all, we just came…
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Food Top 5 Kosher Food Trends of 2018: Irish Cholent And More
It’s 12PM on a Monday, and there are 250 kosher wines to try and piles and piles of kosher meat to consume. Chelsea Piers is crowded with religious Jews, reporters, retailers and waiters that are beginning to sweat, sizing up the thirsty crowd. We’re all here to eat, drink and make merry. It’s the twelfth…
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Culture The ‘Uber’ Of The Weed Industry
If you’re a stoner, a journalist or an ISIS supporter, you’ve probably heard of Telegram, the new encrypted messaging app that can automatically erase sent messages. What you don’t know is that Israelis are using it to revolutionize the marijuana market — all with the creation of a community channel called Telegrass. Telegrass boasts more…
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The Schmooze Mel Gibson Is Making Passion Of The Christ 2. Here’s Why You Should Be Worried.
It was a cultural phenomenon that raked in $600 million at the box office and is still the highest grossing R-rated film of all time. Years later people are still questioning just how anti-Semitic “The Passion Of the Christ” really was. Mel Gibson, the star vehicle driving the movie to its bloody, sadomasochistic conclusion, famously…
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