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Food Traveling While Treyf
This is the fifth in a series of pseudonymous essays by The Treyfster. The pieces explore forbidden foods from the point of view of a person who used to keep traditionally kosher. Winter in the northern hemisphere means I’ll take any opportunity to travel south, away from the cold and the dark and the seasonal…
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Food Why is it wrong for Jewish People to be Mixing Milk and Meat?
This is the fourth in a series of pseudonymous essays by The Treyfster. The pieces explore the forbidden milk and meat foods from the point of view of a person who used to keep traditionally kosher. I once spent an hour or so meditating on the biblical verse from Exodus 23:19 “You shall not boil…
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Food Why Does Bacon Get All the Buzz?
This is the third in a series of pseudonymous essays by The Treyfster. The pieces explore forbidden foods from the point of view of a person who used to keep traditionally kosher. Illustration by Kurt Hoffman If you’re talking treyf, it doesn’t get much trey-fer than bacon. That’s not true, of course. The idea that…
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Food The First Foray Into Forbidden Food
Illustration by Kurt Hoffman This is the second in a series of pseudonymous essays by The Treyfster. The pieces explore forbidden foods from the point of view of a person who used to keep traditionally kosher. Before, when I was frum, we all used to have those conversations about “if you did, what would you?”…
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Food A Pork-Filled Friday Night in Madrid
Illustration by Kurt Hoffman It was on a trip to Madrid, about four years ago, that I finally understood the paradox of opposites: that there’s no such thing as opposites, really, and that what you get when you try to run as hard as you can in the opposite direction to your upbringing is, well,…
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