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Food Don’t Ignore the Food at My Shabbat — It Makes the Magic Happen
It happened again last week. The food at my Shabbat table, which was, in fact, the co-star of the evening (alongside energetic and intelligent conversation) was given only passing mention by the people who ate and enjoyed it. Ha! Little did they know how wrong they were to disregard it. The day started early, with…
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Food How I Hosted Shabbat in a Soup Kitchen
This is the first in a series of essays submitted by our readers about their personal Shabbat experiences. Shabbat — the gatherings, the traditions and rituals, the food — is observed in such a wide variety of ways and we’re interested to read your recollections and stories. They might be about a particularly delicious dinner…
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Food Lox Without the Line (or Check) at Russ & Daughters New Sabbath Brunch
Leave it to the 21st-century scions of a venerated 103-year-old smoked fish emporium to figure out how to serve a restaurant brunch on Saturday mornings to Sabbath-observant Jews — and anyone who can’t stand late-morning lines. Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, the 4th-generation owners of Russ & Daughters, have done just that. At…
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Breaking News Accessibility Shabbat Takes on Needs of Visually Impaired
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli synagogues and communities will mark Accessibility Shabbat to call attention to the needs of the disabled community within Jewish tradition and in Jewish institutions. The event this weekend, launched by the Israel-based Tzohar Rabbinical Organization, coincides with International Day of Persons with Disability, marked on Dec. 3. The weekend event will focus on…
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Food Meet the Founder of the Brand New Jewish Food Society
On a recent morning, I met Naama Shefi for breakfast at Zucker Bakery, a petite Jewish café and bakery in New York’s East Village. Shefi is the founder of the Jewish Food Society, a new project dedicated to preserving and revitalizing Jewish food traditions. And Zucker, which is owned by an Israeli pastry chef and…
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Food Welcome to Pot Shabbat
Definitely not your bubbe’s matzo balls; these have THC in them. On a recent Friday night in the San Francisco Bay Area, seven 30- and 40-somethings gathered in a cozy home for Shabbat dinner. They lit candles, chanted Kiddish and ritually washed their hands before ha-motzi, the prayer over the bread. But the first bite…
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News Shabbat Dinner Helped Turn Around This Ex-White Supremacist
How does one of the country’s leading white nationalists become a liberal backer of racial equality? Shabbat dinner might have something to do with it. According to a Washington Post profile, Derek Black, a onetime protege of David Duke, turned away from the hateful ideology after Jewish students reached out to him to join their…
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News Did Jared Kushner Break Shabbat to Help Donald Trump Survive Tape Crisis?
Jared Kushner broke his usual Shabbat routine to help his father-in-law, Donald Trump, through a crisis sparked by the release of blockbuster tapes showing the presidential candidate lewdly discussing women. Kushner is an observant Orthodox Jew who normally does not work during Shabbat. But as the New York Times reported, he was among a group…
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