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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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Food The 6 Trendiest Foods Of 2017 — Now Available At Kosher Restaurants
Kosher isn’t entirely unwarranted: that the food is bland, or too oily and over-seasoned; that corners are cut: boxed pasta and canned sauce are bought; that the staff is rude or overbearing. But kosher consumers are becoming increasingly sophisticated about the food they eat. And that sophistication has led to a demand for a greater…
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Fast Forward Trump Envoy Jason Greenblatt Greeted With Kosher Food At UAE Iftar Dinner
Jason Greenblatt, the adviser on negotiations to President Trump who is busy trying to re-start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, was invited on Wednesday to an Iftar, the dinner ending the day of fasting during the Muslim month of Ramadan, at the residence of Yousef Al Otaiba, United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to Washington. What Greenblatt found on…
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Fast Forward Linda Sarsour’s Brother Works At Kosher Restaurant — And Some Want Him Fired
(JTA) — A New York kosher restaurant is under fire for employing the brother of Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour. The Jewish Defense Organization, considered to be a Jewish extremist group, has taken aim at Izzy’s Brooklyn Smokehouse restaurant, calling on it to fire Mohammed Sarsour, The New York Jewish Week reported. Sarsour, known as Moe,…
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Food Why Are There No Kosher Russian Restaurants In New York?
I recently stood in line with more than a thousand Russian Jews, waiting for sushi — the highlight of Saturday night’s dinner at the Limmud FSU conference, which is the largest gathering of Russian-speaking Jews in North America. It was kosher sushi, of course. The other meals at the event, held at a Hilton Hotel…
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Community Wine Of The Week: A Kosher Riesling Available for Under $20…On Amazon!
Engel Reisling 2016 — Finger Lakes, New York This is one of those wines that’s dangerous to drink alone; too smooth to stop at just one 5 ounce standard serving, I find myself wanting to drink it from a tall glass filled with ice — sophistication be damned. This sounds blasphemous, I know, but with…
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