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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 All Of The NYC Kosher Restaurants Where You Can Devour An Impossible Burger
Everyone loves a big, juicy, sizzling burger — made from fermented veggies? That’s the claim of Impossible Foods, the creators of an entirely plant-based burger that they swear tastes every bit as meaty as the real thing. The result of their 18-month effort, the Impossible Burger, is vegan and certified kosher by the Orthodox Union….
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Food Israel’s Most Underrated Food Destination
Crowd source on Facebook about kosher eateries in Haifa, and you’re likely to hear crickets chirping. Haifa is known for its co-existence: an exemplary display of what more peaceful times could look like throughout the entire country between Arab and Jew. Haifa is the place to go to see the meticulously landscaped Bahaii Gardens, from…
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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 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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Food Midtown NYC Gets Yet Another High-End Kosher Restaurant
After a tough few years, is high-end kosher hot again? Last week, we reported on the opening of London’s Tish, with its big-name chef and grand-sounding room. Now, it’s New York’s turn. Former Gramercy Tavern chef Joshua Kessler has opened Barnea Bistro, an ambitious Midtown modern-kosher spot whose goal is no less than to offer…
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Community How Art Can Bridge Divides Between Jewish And Black Communities
2018 has not been a good year for those of us who care about the relationship between the black and Jewish communities — or for those whose Jewish identities comprise a mix of both. At the heart of these rising tensions seems to be a debate over power: who has it, who doesn’t, who can…
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