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Food Kosher Street Meat? Head to The Dog House
Good news for New York Jews and tourists hankering for kosher street meat! The Dog House, which set up shop on Governors Island last weekend, Grill on Wheels, Schnitzi, Taim Mobile Truck, Quick Stop, and the larger mobile kosher world in providing kosher fare for the hungry masses. The Dog House is the second food…
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Fast Forward Kosher Grocery Store Fires Worker for Blasting Israel
A worker was fired from his job at a Long Island kosher grocery store after he angered a customer by denouncing Israel. The owner of Everfresh announced the worker’s abrupt firing after a customer complained about the views he expressed about the Jewish state on July 7. “We are embarrassed that it happened in our…
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Food Meet the Ginger Spice Lady
After tainted Mexican food left her decimated with hepatitis A – and unable to take medication, despite unbearable symptoms – Cathy Shapiro went online. Ginger kept popping up as the preschool teacher searched for natural remedies. And those queries jogged Shapiro’s memories of her long-gone Polish-born bubbe. “She used to put a paste of ginger…
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Food Let Them Eat Caviar!
(JTA) — In a penthouse office with a view of the Eiffel Tower, Olivier Kassabi uses a ceramic spoon to extract a small scoop from a jar labeled as Russian caviar. Placing a clutch of black globules on the base of his thumb, Kassabi licks it off, savoring every fishy drop of the salty liquid inside…
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Fast Forward Emergency Transfer Request Denied in Kosher Prison Food Case
A federal judge rejected a request by a Venezuelan Jewish detainee for an emergency transfer from an Alabama prison over complaints that it was not providing kosher meals. In a ruling last week on the case of Rafael Alberto Lloveras Linares, U.S. District Court Judge Karon Bowdre found that Linares was offered an alternative kosher…
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Fast Forward SodaStream Fires 60 Palestinians From West Bank Plant Over Ramadan Dispute
The SodaStream company reportedly fired 60 Palestinian employees from its West Bank plant over a dispute on breaking the Ramadan fast. The workers were fired earlier this month, the WAC-MAAN trade union representing the Palestinian workers told The Marker, a business newspaper associated with the Israeli daily Haaretz. The evening shift workers reportedly received dismissal…
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Food ‘Epic’ Kosher Catering for the Epicurean in You
Isaac Bernstein prepares dishes at a recent Epic Bites event. / Courtesy of Epic Bites On a recent Friday afternoon, when I normally would be working or cooking for Sabbath dinner guests, I found myself in my friends Naf and Anna Hanau’s Brooklyn living room, tucking into a plate of pigeon confit drizzled with a…
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Fast Forward Crumbs, Kosher Cupcake Chain, May Be Rescued
Crumbs Bake Shop Inc may get a second chance if a bankruptcy judge approves a deal for the owner of Dippin’ Dots ice cream and the star of a reality television show to buy and reopen the U.S. cupcake chain, according to a court document. Crumbs, which specialized in oversized cupcakes and went public in…
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