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Recipes WATCH: Jamie Geller’s Warm Potato Salad With Horseradish Sauce
It’s kinda hard to describe how obsessed I am with these twice-cooked baby bliss potatoes, tossed warm with pungent horseradish sauce. Watch: See also: Jamie Geller is the only best-selling cookbook author who wants to get you out of the kitchen – not because she doesn’t love food – but because she has tons to…
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Community Why You Should Give Kosher Restaurants A Second Chance
When I first moved to NYC in 1995, there were few quality kosher dining experiences available. Only a handful of establishments could be relied on to offer an upscale dinner or well made meal. It was in that environment, when the kosher world was just starting to bloom, that many clichés about kosher restaurants find…
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Food Is An Anti-Israel Activist Working At Izzy’s Kosher BBQ?
What happens when the brother of a staunchly anti-Israel activist works at a wildly popular kosher barbecue joint? At first, nothing. Then last week, The Jewish Week reported that the The Jewish Defense Organization (JDO) — a vigilante ultra-Orthodox group committed to rooting out and fighting anti-Semitism — was handing out fliers telling members of…
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Fast Forward 18 French Jihadis Get Up To 28 Years For Kosher Market Grenade Plot
(JTA) — A French court sentenced members of a jihadist network for a grenade attack on a Jewish grocery store in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles in September 2012. The eighteen men, known as the “Cannes-Torcy cell,” were handed sentences between one and 28 years in prison at a special anti-terror tribunal in Paris Thursday, France…
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Food Shakshuka In Shanghai? Exploring An Unexpected Jewish Food Scene
I’d just arrived in Shanghai and was having one of those unnerving moments I dread in countries where I don’t know the language. The taxi driver had dropped me off in front of a large white villa with an elegant marble staircase. It was not what I’d pictured when I asked to be taken to…
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Recipes Shanghai’s Lion’s Head Meatballs — With A Jewish Twist
The cuisine of Shanghai, as with that of most Chinese cities, tends to feature pork and shrimp-based dishes. This recipe uses veal instead of pork (turkey is also a fine substitute) and includes the soy sauce and sugar that distinguish Shanghai cooking. Lion’s head meatballs got their name because they were thought to resemble lions’…
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Food Party Tonight In A Wine-Lover’s Paradise
Are you an oenophile? Or maybe you’re the type to try and fake your way through a fancy wine list. Either way, you’re in luck: Tonight, Wednesday June 21, Yeshiva University Museum is holding its annual gala at the City Winery, and tickets are still available. The gala’s theme is “The Vine Cheereth,” and the…
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Community The Case For Jewish Vegetarianism
The first time I became a vegetarian I was 14. I liked to think it was for ethical reasons, but it was because I had a crush on a girl. I sat beside her in a kosher deli during a 9th grade class trip to New York. Our rabbi was also there, and as I…
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