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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Fast Forward Nearly 900,000 Israelis Go Without Food Due to Poverty, Government Says
Some 894,000 Israelis go for an entire day without food or eat smaller meals because they cannot afford to buy food, according to a government report. The State Comptroller’s Nutritional Insecurity report issued Monday found that 306,000 of those who go hungry are children. In addition, nearly 50 percent of the Israeli-Arab population cannot meet…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Woman Wins Israel’s ‘Master Chef’
An Arab-Israeli microbiologist from northern Israel won the fourth season of Israel’s reality show “Master Chef.” Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, a 33-year-old mother of three, was crowned the winner of Israel’s most-watched television show on Sunday night. She appeared in the final with Ido Kronenberg of the central Israeli city of Savyon, and Meseret Woldimikhal, an…
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News Kosher Soup Kitchen Struggles With Rising Ranks of Hungry as Passover Nears
On a recent chilly afternoon in Queens, two women shivered in a line of about 50 people that trailed out the door of Masbia, a kosher food pantry and soup kitchen. The first woman, from Manhattan, wore baggy pants. The other, from Queens, was clad in a long, draping skirt. Their outfits signaled differences in…
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Food James Deen, Jewish Porn Star — And Foodie?
Turns out, James Deen has hobbies. And those hobbies include food. The Jewish porn star is now the face of a culinary web series, aptly named “James Deen Loves Food.” Produced by Woodrocket.com (a porn/comedy site that is definitey NSFW), past episodes have shown Deen coming up with the world’ most expensive burrito, ordering the…
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Food Notes from a Jewish Survivor of Anorexia
The first time I admitted to myself that I had an eating disorder was after watching a film describing eating disorders and the Jewish Community called “Hungry to be Heard.” Until that point I was lost. I became a shadow, a nothing person who craved solitude and lived by counting. It had been 4 months…
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The Schmooze Painting Pictures of India’s Jews
Last month, while researching an article for The Forward about Indian Jewish cuisine, I spent the afternoon in Montclair, New Jersey with Siona Benjamin. A home cook who grew up in Mumbai’s Jewish community, Benjamin demonstrated how to prepare a traditional Shabbat coconut curry and a sweet rice and coconut dish called malida that Indian…
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Food Jewish Food Programs Are Growing, Says New Report
Courtesy of Hazon Seven years ago, Nigel Savage, founder of the Jewish environmental group Hazon, typed the phrase “Jewish food movement,” in quotes, into Google. There were zero results. Enter those words today, and you will find 80,100 results. But Savage no longer has to rely on Google for proof of his movement’s success. A…
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Food Growing a Garden, Seeding a Movement
What is the purpose of a community garden? A few weeks ago, I would have said that I knew the answer to this question: that a community garden’s purpose is to nourish people with healthy food and to subvert a corrupt system by providing an alternate model. However, at this year’s Hazon Food Conference at…
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