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Food Bullets and Bagels and All the Weekly Dish
We’re almost afraid to write about — a gun-and-nosh club founded by L.A. mohel Fred Kogen — but we’ll report and you decide. “Our premise is that there are Jews who either enjoy shooting sports or who have an interest in trying to shoot a firearm, but may feel overwhelmed or intimidated,” declares the group’s…
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Food Zaro’s Ham and Cheese, Revisited
On Tuesday, the Forward reported that a Jewish website called OnlySimchas had posted an item about ham-and-cheese sandwiches sold at in New York’s Penn Station. OnlySimchas raised concerns that a kosher certification on Zaro’s wall could confuse passers-by about whether the bakery and its wares were, in fact, kosher. “It is still unclear whether the…
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Food At Tuscany’s Only Kosher Winery, Owners Can’t Touch the Chianti
Terra di Seta is the only fully kosher winery in the Tuscan wine-making region of Chianti. Its goal is to produce kosher wines that match the quality of local wines produced there for centuries. JTA – Up a windy road in the tranquil Tuscan hills, down a gravel path and past acres of grapevines, a…
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Food B&H Dairy’s Triumphant Return
The Lower East Side Dairy restaurant, closed in the 2nd Avenue fire, lives to see another day. Here, B&H’s delicious blintzes, photographed by . These days, the typical tale of mom & pop restaurants, small scale bookstores, indie art supply shops, dive bars and many other historical landmarks in New York City goes something like…
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Food A Swedish-Black Comedian Walks Into a Kosher Kitchen…
Sunda Croonquist is a Los Angeles-based stand-up comic and former beauty queen, who attended Catholic school before converting to Judaism as an adult. She has just put out a cookbook called “Kosher Soul Food” (Putnam & Smith) with Chef Nir Weinblut (and photographs by Antonio Busiello). Cook Sunda’s Croonquist (who goes by her first name…
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Food Chubby Chickpea Kosher No More
Boston’s first kosher food truck is backing up on its kosher certification. , whose opening the Forward touted in 2013, Tweeted last week that “effective immediately our truck has decided to give up its Kosher Certification. Love the KVH; just made sense.” KVH is the kashrut division of the Rabbinical Council of New England. In…
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Fast Forward Israel Moves To Outlaw Alternative Kosher Certification Agency
A bill to prohibit an alternative kosher certification agency from operating passed an initial vote in Israel’s Knesset. The bill, introduced by lawmakers from the haredi Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, would prohibit the alternative organization, called “Private Certification,” from granting kosher certificates to restaurants, according to Haaretz. The bill passed Wednesday by…
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Food L’Chaim Sushi Serves It Up Kosher — and Sustainable
A freshly prepared batch of kosher, sustainable sushi rolls. Kosher. Sustainable. Sushi? Not three words you see together often. But , creator of L’Chaim Sushi, a San Francisco-based catering company, wants to change that. Today, L’Chaim Sushi bills itself as the only kosher, sustainable sushi producer in the world. Seems like a niche market, but…
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