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Community 5 Healthy Kosher Foods You Should Be Eating This Spring
You probably know that eating the right foods is essential for optimal health — but have you ever stopped to consider whether you’re eating the right foods at the right time? While eating more fruits and veggies is always a good idea, eating seasonally is really important, too. It’s not only good for your health,…
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The Schmooze Ricky Gervais, British ‘Office’ Creator, Applauds Denmark’s Ban On Kosher Slaughter
We’re only four days into Passover, and it’s already been bad for the Jews. Between a far-right German party calling for the removal of a Holocaust memorial, and a Washington Post confessional lambasting Jewish men (is that OK now?) — now British celebrity director Ricky Gervais (creator of the UK’s ‘Office’ and star of the…
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Food Buenos Aires Is Experiencing A Jewish Food Renaissance
Buenos Aires’ Jewish texture might surprise a first-time visitor to the city. Storefront signs boast names like Goldstein, Feldman, and Rozenblat. Yarmulkes and Orthodox women’s head-coverings don’t look out of place. And hip coffee shops offer (good!) bagels along with ubiquitous medialunas, or croissants. The Semitic streak extends to Buenos Aires’s embarrassment-of-riches dining scene. You…
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Community Don’t Let Your Passover Leftovers Go To Waste
You meticulously prepped your Seder plate, made oodles of matzo ball soup, cooked enough brisket to feed an army, and are stocked up for the next 18 years on wine, matzo and macaroons. Now what do you do with all of that food once the holiday guests have left? You could throw the leftover parsely…
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Fast Forward Hero African Immigrant Tells Mourning French Jews: ‘You Are Not Abandoned’
PARIS (JTA) – Perhaps the most significant attendee at a memorial service for a Holocaust survivor murdered in her Paris apartment was a young African Muslim man who unceremoniously entered the synagogue and sat in the back row. Within minutes, all eyes were on the man — Lassana Bathily, a 27-year-old from Mali whom many…
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Community Healthful And Delicious Wheat Flour Alternatives
Aside from not having any bread during Passover, generally all products containing wheat flour (except for matzo) are also off-limits. This restriction can make preparing many of your favorite recipes more difficult — unless you have some great non-wheat alternatives on hand, that is. Most people use regular, enriched wheat flour (or whole wheat flour)…
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Community A Third Of Israeli Jews Have Had It With The Passover Cleaning
According to a new survey conducted by The Peace Index, 37 percent of Israeli Jews are liberating themselves from cleaning their homes for Passover this year. 63 percent of the Jewish public will clean their homes of all chametz, the survey reports, and 67 percent will eat kosher-for-Passover food both inside and outside the home….
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Life Sickly Sweet Kosher Wines Don’t Belong At Your Passover Seder
If you think your personal Passover preparations are stressful, imagine what it must be like to run a kosher winery during this time of year. But despite the audible pre-Shabbat rush Friday morning, Covenant Winery vintner and co-owner Jeff Morgan was as cool as a properly chilled rosé when we spoke — a type of…
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