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Food Why I make these sirniki, or Russian cheese pancakes, for Shavuot [VIDEO]
If you read and discuss enough biblical commentary and ask why ancient figures didn’t do things along what we today think of as “Jewish” lines, you often get the response of ‘Well, they didn’t have the Torah yet. They didn’t know.’ It’s always been a point of comfort for me as someone who was raised…
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News Kosher to treyf, and back again: all in a day for Fairway’s bakery
It was a baked goods bombshell. On Tuesday morning, kosher-keeping Manhattanites woke up to learn that bakery items at Fairway, a beloved and beleaguered supermarket chain under new ownership after filing for bankruptcy, were no longer kosher — effective immediately. “Oy…. the Rugelach there were the best. So sad,” posted one customer on Facebook. And…
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Community The biggest kosher news out of Los Angeles isn’t from Coffee Bean
Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf going treif isn’t the biggest kosher news out of Los Angeles. The biggest story is how our community is keeping its local kosher establishments in business. Coffee Bean was a convenient kosher coffee chain. Losing it will have some impact, especially those looking for a quick kosher coffee break. It…
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News As L.A.-based Coffee Bean drops kosher status, Orthodox customers fight back
A few years ago, Sarah Blitzstein and a few close friends mapped out an unconventional 5K route. Instead of passing through local parks or looping around prominent Los Angeles landmarks, they chose branches of an institution that had been central to their friendship dating back to their youth: The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf. “It…
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Recipes Quarantine Shabbat: Chicken and Artichoke Paella on a Wood Fire
In the best of times, food can transport and connect us. These days, when we are both stuck and disconnected, food has its work cut out for it. If we can’t get out, the right dish can at least give us the feeling of escape. That’s why I’m making paella on my Facebook Live webcast…
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Recipes Falafel and gnocchi recipes via slideshow nurture my daughter long-distance
I’m in quarantine in Massachusetts. My daughter, 21, is locked down in London. I have nourished her though illness, grief, anxiety over exams, boys and college essays. She’s had little distress in her life that hasn’t been soothed by shakshuka, sweet potatoes, or scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. But now, when her need for comfort…
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Fast Forward Empire Kosher closes chicken plant after employees test COVID-positive
(JTA) — Empire Kosher closed its processing plant in Pennsylvania after two employees tested positive for the coronavirus. But chickens are expected to be available for next week’s Passover seders, Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of the Orthodox Union’s Kosher Division, which supervises the Empire facility, told Crain’s New York on Thursday. The Mifflintown plant, which…
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News Kosher Supermarket Owner Mourns His Wife: ‘I Have To Do It All Without You’
On a Jersey City street, a crowd of men dressed in black hats and coats stand on the sidewalk and flood out into the street. A white bus stamped with “Chaverim of Rockaway” flanks the crowd. Speakers tower over them, projecting a tremulous voice. That voice belongs to Moishe Ferencz, the husband of Mindy Ferencz,…
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