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Israeli Hummus Joint Gives 50% Discount to Jews and Arabs Eating Together
Can a shared love of hummus bring Jews and Arabs together? An Israeli restaurant near the coastal city of Netanya is offering 50 percent discounts on hummus for tables with both Jews and Arabs. A manager of the Hummus Bar, located in Kfar Vitkin, told the Times of Israel that “several” tables of Jews and…
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Cool Israeli Cocktail Bar Makes World’s Top 50 List
Artisanal cocktail accoutrements at the bar of Imperial Craft Cocktail Bar, which garnered a coveted spot on Drink International’s list. A leading publication on alcohol for the first time ranked an Israeli pub on its list of the world’s 50 best bars. Drink International placed Tel Aviv’s at number 17 on its list, published earlier…
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YidLife Crisis Takes a Bite Out of the Big Apple
YidLife Crisis’ Jamie Elman (second from left) and Eli Batalion (second from right), flanked by a couple of unidentified hassidim. food festival, I had a lightening-fast confab with Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman, the duo behind the Yiddish-language sitcom YidLife Crisis. They were rushing around in the heat, shadowed by a cameraman, talking fast and…
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To Tip or Not — Thoughts on Danny Meyer’s New Policy
Danny Meyer, chief executive officer of the Union Square Hospitality Group, has announced plans to eliminate tipping at his restaurants. The first word that pops into my head when I think about Danny Meyer restaurants (Union Square Café, Gramercy Tavern, Maialino and the Modern, to name a few) is “hospitality.” Meyer’s 13 New York City…
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Recipes Michael Solomonov Shares Israeli Recipes and Recollections in ‘Zahav’
Award-winning chef Michael Solomonov spends five nights a week manning the bread station at his popular Philadelphia restaurant Zahav. His new cookbook shows readers how to reproduce the prized pita and laffa at home. Michael Solomonov and business partner Steven Cook may have opened nearly a dozen Philadelphia restaurants in the past decade, but Chef…
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Recipes ‘Zahav’ Mango, Cucumber and Sumac-Onion Israeli Salad
This salad contains homemade pickled onions, which wake up a slew of recipes. Chef Michael Solomonov came up with them because he realized raw onions didn’t always appeal to the American palate. “So the quick-pickle treatment is really attractive,” he said. “You can eat a bunch of it. It’s nice, it’s refreshing, but it’s still…
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Black Seed Bagels’ New Spot and All the Weekly Dish
finally opened its long-awaited East Village location Monday in the storefront that housed legendary pastry shop DiRobertis for more than a century. Like its hand-rolled, wood-fired bagels, Black Seed’s menu is a mashup of Montreal, New York and more. Look for smoked-meat bagel sandwiches along with trad offerings like smoked fish and cream cheese. In…
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Israeli Company Channels Charles River Into New Beer
From left, Charlie Storey of Harpoon Brewery and Nadav Efraty, Rick Stover and Francesco Fragasso of Desalitech toasting their production of Charles River Pale Ale. JTA – An Israeli-founded water purification company has teamed up with Boston-based Harpoon Brewery to channel the once-famously polluted Charles River into a new beer. Desalitech, which started in Israel…
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Einat Admony’s New Eatery to Offer Sephardic Tapas
After her hometown of Tel Aviv, ’s favorite city is Barcelona. “I like the simple food there,” she tells the Forward. “I love the atmosphere and the way they eat.” Now, with a new restaurant set to open in early November, Admony will salute both places. Combina will be her third eatery, after the pioneering…
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Kossar’s Bialys Branches Out From the Classics
The Lower East Side storefront, pre-renovation. More than 55 years after opening its doors, is getting a makeover — and temporarily shutting its doors for the first time in its history. The beloved Lower East Side shop, where bialys have famously come in just three classic varieties — onion, garlic and sesame — will reopen…
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Recipes Taste Testing ‘The New Kosher’
This is an occasional column in which the writer evaluates a new cookbook by making some of its recipes, sharing the dishes with friends and asking her guests what they think of the results. She recently cooked her way through “The New Kosher,” by Kim Kushner. Related Cinnamon-Chocolate Pound Cake With Greek Yogurt (below) The…
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