The “Leopold Bloom,” above, is the knish for the urban adventurer, according to the bakery’s website. What happens when a homesick, Brooklyn-born bookworm decides to start making his own knishes in deli-starved Austin, Texas? You get , a wholesale bakery from which Joel Weinbrot slings up slightly loony literary-inspired knishes. The Austin Chronicle reports Weinbrot’s…
A San Antonio synagogue was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti less than a week after another city synagogue and its neighborhood were similarly attacked. A maintenance worker at Congregation Agudas Achim, the Texas city’s second-largest synagogue, discovered graffiti on a storage shed near the back of the synagogue’s property on Monday morning, MySanAntonio.com reported. Linda Moad,…
Racist and anti-Semitic symbols including swastikas were painted on more than 30 cars, homes, buildings and signs in a predominately Jewish neighborhood in San Antonio, prompting a police investigation, authorities said on Wednesday. The graffiti was noticed by worshippers as they left morning prayers at an orthodox synagogue on Wednesday, police said. “I want to…
Shalom, y’all. San Antonio’s about to get its first full-fledged falafel spot. But Moshe’s Golden Falafel, which opens mid-June, ain’t any old Middle Eastern joint. It’s the brainchild of James Beard-nominated chef , a San Antonio native who’s a hometown celebrity for hotspots like The Luxury, Il Sogno Osteria, and Sandbar Fish House & Market….
A Texas judge was admonished publicly for referring to a district attorney as a “New York Jew” and saying a prosecutor’s beard made him look “like a Muslim.” In a ruling released Monday, the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct admonished Carter Tinsley Schildknecht of the 106th District Court in Lamesa. The commission required Schildknecht to…
There were no suspects in last week’s failed attack at a civic center outside Dallas other than the two men who were fatally shot while trying to storm an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, police said on Monday. Roommates Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi of Phoenix were killed by a Garland police officer…
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the shooting attack on a Texas building housing an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad organized by an anti-Islamic organization. The group claimed responsibility Tuesday in an audio-taped statement. The group said that “two soldiers of the caliphate” carried out the Sunday night attack in Garland, Texas….
Federal agents for years monitored one of the two gunmen who were shot dead after opening fire with assault rifles at a heavily guarded Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. Two government sources who asked not to be named said the shooters were roommates Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, of Phoenix. Court documents…
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