This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish food, which draws influence from Israeli, Middle Eastern, Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, and Palestinian traditions, among others.
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Food The Charlotte Russe Is Making A Comeback
What is a charlotte russe? It’s a Jewish dessert that fell by the wayside. It’s a forgotten piece of Jewish culture. As Leah Koenig wrote for Politico, “Eighteenth-century European aristocrats knew Charlotte Russe as a cake made of ladyfingers pressed into an elegant mold, filled with thick custard or Bavarian cream, and flavored with cooked…
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Food Kylie Jenner Shares Her Matzo Ball Soup Recipe
I didn’t want to do this. But there comes a time in every media writer’s life in which she must choose whether or not to write about the Kardashian-Jenners. Today I didn’t have a choice. Because, according to her Insta Story, Kylie Jenner made matzo ball soup —and it really isn’t that bad. The matzo…
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Food Josh’s Deli Is The Most Non-Kosher Jewish Deli Ever
Happy holidays from my lil fam to yours. #fakedelicheer #butforrealhappiness A post shared by josh (@joshsdeli) on Dec 24, 2017 at 4:57pm PST Josh’s Deli, run by Josh Marcus, offers a spin on traditional Jewish deli food. It’s located in the Orthodox area of Surfside, Miami, surrounded by Jews who don’t mix milk and meat…
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Recipes The Only Harissa Recipe You’ll Ever Need
In Tunisia, harissa is served as a dip, drizzled with olive oil, and often garnished with canned tuna and olives. It is a fixture of most main meals, brought to the table with bread before any other food is served. The chilies used for harissa in Tunisia are very mild and I usually bring back…
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Food Anissa Helou Traveled The World, Searching For The Flavors Of Islam
“Her range of knowledge and unparalleled authority make her just the kind of cook you want by your side when baking a Moroccan flatbread, preparing an Indonesian satay and anything else along the way.”— Yotam Ottolenghi Anissa Helou’s new book “Feast: Food Of The Islamic World” seeks to cover the depth and breadth of the…
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Food Jonathan Safran Foer and Natalie Portman Get Real About Veganism
Jonathan Safran Foer’s seminal work “Eating Animals” has a reputation that precedes it. “It’ll turn you into a vegan,” I was warned, repeatedly, when I started reading it. “It turned Natalie Portman into a vegan.” While “Eating Animals” ultimately held less sway over me than a schnitzel baguette does, the book certainly made me feel…
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Food Synagogues Are Going Vegan. Is Tofu Cholent The Future Of Kiddush?
The Synagogue Vegan Challenge was simple. Five synagogues. $25,000, distributed equally between them. A commitment to giving a year’s worth of vegan programming. Funding was provided by VegFund, a program that provides grants vegan activists of all sorts. The money, as per the Q&A on the site, is designated only for the purchasing of vegan…
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Food Making Recycling A Norm In The Religious Community
ReJews is a nonprofit organization that bills itself as the face of recycling in the Jewish world. Environmental consciousness is rarely seen as a uniquely Jewish concern, sidelined for the more flashy causes of Arab-Israeli coexistence, religious rights, concerns about assimilation and the like. But recycling is important, according to Henry Goodelman, ReJews founder, and…
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