Syrian Jewish Food
Shabbat Meals: Syrian Kibbe
“Stop picking,” my grandmother always scolded, swatting away our little hands. “There won’t be enough for everybody else.”
Shabbat Meals: Syrian Flatbread Transcends Generations
Early in my marriage, I would alternate Shabbat dinners between my parents and in-laws, who were both from Syria. They continued the custom of setting the Shabbat dinner table with loaves of Khubz ‘Adi, a Syrian flatbread to symbolize to the twelve loaves of shewbread that were the centerpiece of the altar in the Jewish Temple.