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 What Baking Challah Teaches Us About Life
Once a month, I teach a class in baking challah. There are no machines involved. The (adult) students and I gather the ingredients, proof the yeast, mix in the flour and sugar, eggs and honey, salt and oil. Month in month out, we work off of the same recipe and turn and twist, punch and…
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Food At Swank Chelsea Eatery, Haimish Is Hip And Family Is First
A kibbutz with delicious food in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood? Well, kind of. “We call it the kibbutz,” said Brett Nidel, of the building on the corner of 18th Street and Seventh Avenue, where he lives and works. Nidel and his brother Sam, along with partners Matt Mogil and Tamara McCarthy (who is married to…
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Food Muslim-Owned Jewish Deli To Host Muslim-Jewish Fundraising Dinner
There is a Jewish Deli in Brooklyn that closes for Ramadan. The reason is simple, if somewhat surprising: The owner of David’s Brisket House and Deli on Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant is Riyadh Gazali, a Muslim of Yemini descent. Next week, Gazali will host a dinner party at David’s along with Breaking Bread NYC, which…
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Food Adorable Sailors Discover Knishes During Fleet Week
Fleet Week draws to a close today, but I got a souvenir at Yohah Shimmel Knish Bakery in the form of this photograph. These three sailors, each from different parts of the country, were walking past the venerable Lower East Side bakery and deli and decided that the knishes in the window looked too good…
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Food Jewish African-American Writer Cooks Up A Fusion Of Two Identities
Michael Twitty dressed in the outfit that slaves wore in the American South — wool stockings, waistcoat and kerchief tied around his neck — to cook meat in an open-hearth oven on a historic Virginia plantation, more than one memory of slavery flashed through his mind. One memory, of his African-American ancestors in the South, seems obvious. The…
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Food Can An Israeli Jew ‘Culturally Appropriate’ Middle Eastern Food?
If you’re curious what the expression “casual racism” refers to, you need look no further than conversations about food. I’m thinking of things like when a white-owned restaurant gets referred to as the “elevated” version of the “ethnic” cuisine it’s riffing on, or even just why Americans will pay more for Italian food than Korean….
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Fast Forward ‘Fake’ Kosher Cheese Leads To Criminal Charges in Canada
For the first time, the Canadian government has introduced criminal charges against a company for falsely claiming that its products were kosher. The company Creation Foods and its vice-president Kefir Sadiklar have been accused by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency of sending non-kosher cheddar cheese to Jewish summer camps in 2015 with forged documents that…
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Fast Forward New Jewish Teen Tour Focuses on Food and Fitness
Food culture has long been an interest of adults, but lately, teens are getting in on the trend too — and now, Jewish teen foodies can get their culinary fix over the summer. Zeke Teen’s new three-week travel program gives rising 10th, 11th, and 12th graders the opportunity to experience the food and fitness cultures…
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