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Food Top 5 Kosher Food Trends of 2018: Irish Cholent And More
It’s 12PM on a Monday, and there are 250 kosher wines to try and piles and piles of kosher meat to consume. Chelsea Piers is crowded with religious Jews, reporters, retailers and waiters that are beginning to sweat, sizing up the thirsty crowd. We’re all here to eat, drink and make merry. It’s the twelfth…
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Community Chef Jordana Dishes On How To Stay Fit — And Keep Kosher, Too
Private Chef Jordana Hirschel, who began her career as a Weight Watchers receptionist, now helps others reach their own health goals through her work as a teacher and owner of a catering business. As someone who also keeps kosher, she is a living example that you can observe Shabbat, celebrate Jewish holidays, and go on…
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Fast Forward Chabad Hosting Kosher Tailgate Outside Super Bowl LII
Many Jews will go to extreme lengths to find kosher food, and Super Bowl Sunday is no exception — even when that means braving a tailgate in expected subzero temperatures. U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, which is hosting Super Bowl LII, does not have a kosher concession stand. So a group of rabbis affiliated with…
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Community Is It Easier To Keep Shabbat Than It Is To Keep Kosher?
A version of this article originally appeared in the Texas Jewish Post. Just as God works in mysterious ways, so, it seems, do human beings grow in mysterious ways. Each Jewish person decides on a particular course, as well as to the degree in which they plan on committing and investing themselves in the observance…
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Fast Forward De Facto ‘Ban’ On Kosher And Halal Meat In British Parliament
British politicians have been made aware of a “longstanding” de facto “ban” on kosher and halal meat being served in cafeterias and cafes in the British Parliament, the Jewish Chronicle reported. The ban was made by Parliament’s catering staff in consultation with animal rights activists. It was uncovered after Jay Stoll, a legislative assistant, asked…
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The Schmooze Yankees Minor League Team Renames Itself ‘Trenton Pork Roll’
For reasons unknown, baseball is not seen as relevant as it once was. Unrelated, no doubt, is the choice by the New York Yankees’ minor league team to rebrand themselves one day a week as “the Trenton Pork Roll” during their 25th anniversary season (they will continue to be “the Trenton Thunder on other nights.)…
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Fast Forward Kosher Restaurateur Says Rabbis Shun Him Over Non-Jewish Wife
(JTA) — The owner of a high end, glatt kosher restaurant claimed in a lawsuit that local rabbis are forcing him out of the kosher community because his wife isn’t Jewish. Dimitry Berezovskiy, owner of the Riverdale K Grill House, in a lawsuit filed in Bronx Supreme Court, alleges that his landlord Moses Marx and…
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Food Ivanka Trump Spotted Eating Kosher Food With Her Son In Washington
Ivanka Trump ate at a kosher Washington, D.C. restaurant with her son Tuesday evening, Jewish Insider reported. The two dined at Char Bar, opened by the owners of the now-defunct Eli’s Kosher Deli. Contact Ari Feldman at [email protected] or on Twitter @aefeldman
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