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Food ‘Food Fight’ Is The Orthodox Community’s Answer To ‘Chopped’
A battle is raging on kosher.com. The battle is called “Food Fight,” and it’s a web series to decide who will become the next kosher food champion. The challenge? To create a stunning dish with one key ingredient and only 30 minutes to spare and may the most delicious dish win. The idea of pitting…
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Food For One Game A Year, The Long Island Ducks Go Kosher
For the fourth year in a row, the Long Island Ducks will go kosher for one delicious night. The team’s annual “Jewish Heritage Night,” this year held on Sunday, August 5, will honor the grand tradition shared by Jews and sports fans: eating well. Jewish food like knishes will be served, along with kosher versions…
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Food August Is National Deli Month. It’s Time To Fress.
Depending on the day, you might hear the Jewish deli is finished — or flourishing. But Ziggy Gruber’s dedication to deli is unwavering. And the Houston-based Kenny & Ziggy’s owner is gearing up for his third annual National Deli Month, August 1-31, which spotlights 19 Jewish delis across the country through signature dishes and charity…
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Food The Jewish Survivalist Contemplating Kosher After Doomsday
Michael is a modern Orthodox Jew with three kids, a mortgage he’s paying off, and one big storage closet in his house filled with piles of water bottles and baked beans. He thinks disaster might strike soon, wiping out most of the human race and modern civilization and leaving the remainder of humanity to fend…
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Food How One Jewish Woman Is Changing The World — With One Jar Of Trash
Amanda Lindner has a jar of trash. It’s not a big jar and it’s not a big amount of trash. In fact, in this five-inch jar is all the trash she’s created in the past five months. When Lindner moved into her first solo apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, she committed to a zero-waste…
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Food Making Challah, The Jewish Miracle Bread, With A Syrian Twist
Jack Hazan’s Grandma Peggy called challah “the miracle bread.” She taught him to make it in her kitchen when he was a child — she lived only a few blocks away from his yeshiva, in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn. She told him that in Syria, where she and her late husband Albert were from,…
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Food The First Jewish Deli In Massachusetts Might Also Be The Last
For years, there was only one Jewish deli in Worcester, Massachusetts. But it was more than a deli. It was a historical landmark, it was a piece of living history and it was a neighborhood meeting spot. A combination of Worcester regulars and curious visitors would drop by to drink a Dr. Brown’s, taste the…
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Food Orthodox Union No Longer Certifying This Controversially Slaughtered Beef
The Orthodox Union has told its approved beef purveyors in South America to stop using a controversial slaughter method. The O.U., which is the largest kosher certifying agency in the United States, sent a letter to its meat purveyors in June notifying them that it would no longer accept meat slaughtered using the “shackle and…
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