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News Jews Furious After Sessions Speech Consider Boycott Of OU’s Ubiquitous Symbol
Jewish advocates mulled boycotting Orthodox Union products leading up to Shabbat after the organization honored Attorney General Jeff Session’s while he was under fire from progressive groups for the Trump administration’s policies separating immigrant families. The Orthodox Union said they “took advantage of a private opportunity” before his Leadership Mission keynote address on June 13…
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Food What We Talk About When We Talk About Baconnaise
What is baconnaise? I first began hearing the name bandied around when I began research on bacon substitutes. I heard whispers of it in restaurant bathrooms and in anonymous comment forums dedicated to the goings on of the kosher world. I had to know more about this mysterious substance, this bacon-flavored yet bacon-less mayonnaise, this…
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Fast Forward Kosher Chinese Restaurateur Charged After Hidden Camera Found In Bathroom
A kosher Chinese restaurateur was reportedly charged with using a hidden camera to secretly videotape people in the bathroom of his suburban Boston eatery. Tze Chung, 63, was arrested after a separate criminal probe turned up the videos of patrons in Taam China’s bathroom, Brookline Patch reported. Chung reportedly told police he was the restaurant’s…
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Food Celebrity Chef Michael Solomonov Is Going Kosher — For Just One Night
Philly superstar chef Michael Solomonov, a four-time James Beard Award winner, doesn’t usually preside over kosher meals. But the Zahav and Dizengoff whiz, along with business partner Steve Cook, will host a kosher Israeli feast this Sunday to benefit Philadelphia’s Bnai Abraham Chabad synagogue. On the menu: Lachmagine, the miniature ground beef pies; Moroccan cigars;…
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Community 6 Tips to Jumpstart Post-Holiday Weight Loss
While holiday celebrations are usually full of family, friends and fun — they may even be considered “healthy” due to their stress-relieving properties — they also have a tendency to make us veer off track from our normal eating and exercising habits. If you enjoyed yourself a little too much during recent holidays, you might…
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Fast Forward Are Seals Kosher? A Jewish Inuit Activist Says Yes.
A 21-year-old Jewish Inuit activist from Canada’s far north has spoken out about the similarities between her two backgrounds — and how it may affect Jewish dietary laws. Killaq Enuaraq-Strauss grew up in Iqaluit, the capital of the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut. Her father is Jewish and her mother is Inuk (the singular for…
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Food The World’s First Kosher Cheeseburger Is Here
The trail-blazing Impossible Burger, the world’s only kosher cheeseburger, created sustainably, is now officially on the Orthodox Union’s kosher database registry. The Impossible Burger entered development in 2011 and debuted in July 2016 at the fashionably erstwhile Chef David Chang’s Momofuku Nishi in Manhattan. It’s since won a 2017 Tasty Award and a 2018 Fabi…
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Food 2 New Kosher Restaurants Opening On The Jersey Shore
The Jersey Shore isn’t exactly the most Jewish place. Unlike the boardwalk on Miami Beach, or Cleveland, Ohio, the Jersey Shore is known for its pizza joints and salt water taffy than its kosher diners. But in Deal, New Jersey, a summer resort town popular in the Syrian Jewish community, new kosher restaurants keep cropping…
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