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Food Kosher Pizza Goes Avant-Garde
It’s been a tough year for Basil, the upscale pizzeria turned Mediterranean restaurant that credits itself with bringing Kosher fine dining to trendy Crown Heights. First they sued a competing pizza restaurant, Calabria, for violating the halachic law of “hasagat givul,” which literally means boundary infringement and refers to unfair business competition that seeks to…
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Community The Top 5 Kosher Foods For Daily Detox
Now that the holiday season has come to a close, you may be noticing that the seemingly endless amounts of treats and indulgences over the past couple of months have started to take their toll. Whether your pants are feeling a bit snug or your energy levels have totally tanked, it may be time for…
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Food Kosher Food Comes To Facebook HQ
It took almost 18 years, but kosher-observant employees at Facebook’s main campus in Menlo Park, California, finally have a kosher dining option. According to YNetNews, the venue — a large “caravan” that’s being called “Kosher Truck” — joins 11 other eateries at the company’s enormous headquarters. Kosher Truck, which is open to all of Facebook’s…
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Community Hunker Down For The Winter Weather With These Two Must-Try Kosher Wines
In New York City, we’re bracing for a winter storm. But no matter where you are, you can hunker down with wine blogger Gabriel Geller’s top recommendations to cozy up to this winter: Château Larcis Jaumat, a Bordeaux to Drink Now or Save and Tabor, from Shifon Vineyard, a New and Original Wine from Israel….
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Community Looking For Free Kosher Food On Campus? There’s An App For That.
A version of this article first appeared on the OU-JLIC website. As a Jewish college student, two of the more difficult things to find on campus are often Kosher food and Torah classes. Not anymore at UCLA. This past semester, OU-JLIC student president and staff writer for UCLA’s Jewish student magazine Ha’Am, Joey Levin, found…
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Food Kosher Sushi Gets Gorgeous Makeover As Jewish Chefs Lead Vegan Charge
Call it nouveau vegan: As diners demand more healthful options, plant-based cuisine is having a moment — and Jewish chefs are leading the charge. One of the pioneers is Guy Vaknin, whose 5-year-old Beyond Sushi has exploded from a modest counter in Manhattan’s East Village to a five-restaurant chainlet. Days after Vaknin and his wife/business…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor And Inventor Of Kosher ‘Meals On Wheels’ Program Dies
Yehoshua Hershkovitz, who started the first kosher “Meals On Wheels” program out of his Brooklyn kitchen, died Monday, the New York Times reported. He was 92. In 1975, Hershkovitz founded Tomche Shabbos (“supporters of the Sabbath”) out of his home in Borough Park. Though he was a postal clerk, he was concerned that his neighbor,…
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Food Are The Fried Locusts In My Taco Kosher?
The beady eyes in my taco glare back amid the citrus salsa and avocado, and peek out from behind a leaf of cilantro. The first bite is crunchy, and faintly nutty, like toasted corn — if toasted corn came with six legs and a pair of wings. Before long I’m popping individual fried locusts into…
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