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Film & TV Is ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Anti-Semitic?
If, unlike me, you didn’t spend your entire weekend binge-watching the new season of “Orange is The New Black,” you may not be aware of the major Jewish narrative arc that has developed at Litchfield Penitentiary. My first reaction was jubilation. And then I started watching. And disappointment hit. Because despite the laughs and the…
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Opinion Prison’s Great Kosher Debate Hits ‘Orange Is the New Black’
“While I am heartened that you appreciate the works of Woody Allen and Barbra Streisand, I think you’ve confused cultural Judaism with committed Jewish belief.” So says the Rent-a-Rabbi in OITNB’s season 3, episode 9, tantalizingly titled “Where My Dreidel At.” (If your binge watching hasn’t carried you this far yet, be warned: spoilers ahead!)…
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Fast Forward French Anti-Israel Boycotter Targets All Kosher Food
A French anti-Semitism watchdog called for a police probe against a former lawmaker who warned Muslim shoppers about locally produced kosher products. “Ramadan soon: Watch out with your shopping,” Jean-Claude Lefort, a former lawmaker for France’s communist party and current president of the France Palestine Solidarity Association, or AFPS, wrote in a social media posting…
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Culture A Slice of a New Life
Aunt Linda had stocked up on kosher food to last for the duration of the Sabbath. But when Saturday night came around, there was no more kosher food left and I was hungry. On Saturday evening, we couldn’t find an open kosher restaurant, so I suggested that Aunt Linda, my elder brother Israel and I…
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Food Kitchn Synch — or Everything But?
A new kosher meal-kit delivery service provides raw materials, step-by-step instructions… and more stress than you might imagine. It goes pretty much without saying that I’m comfortable in the kitchen, so I wasn’t sure why I was feeling anxious when I started pulling ingredients out of the package that arrived at my door the other…
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News Exotic Kosher Feast Sickens Some at Manhattan Synagogue
They came to the synagogue with empty bellies — and eclectic taste buds. For the hungry and adventurous, the program announced. On the menu: faux-butter poached brains with garbanzo beans; veal intestines, duck liver and kidneys, and goat testicles; slow-cooked ox tail in sherry wine mousseline; Mexican chipotle chocolate-covered locusts. All of this is perfectly…
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Food Chicken Soup With Crunch
I never once considered the possibility that a chicken soup-flavored potato chip would soothe my soul. Then I journeyed to the fictional land of Ten Acre village, where I discovered to my surprise that this snack was not only appealing to my vegetarian palate but actually quite tasty. And I wasn’t even cheating. The flavored…
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Food Kosher Dining Hall Comes to College of Charleston
Dara Rosenblatt, the Jewish student life program coordinator at the College of Charleston, at an Israel fest celebration on campus, April 23, 2015. Renowned for its gracious architecture and signature Southern charm, Charleston is increasingly celebrated as a foodie heaven. The trouble is, in a city whose culinary specialties embrace (and glorify) oysters, she-crab soup…
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