Tag: Kosher Food
Jewish shoppers struggle with highest prices in recent memory for Passover food
A woman pushed her shopping cart down an aisle filled with Passover foods in a supermarket in northern New Jersey. She lifted a box of kosher-for-Passover soup mandle—a type of cracker—off the shelf and...
Wisdom from the Passover kitchen: Getting the kids involved
Folding chairs lined the hallway wall like dutiful soldiers in expectation of arriving guests. Unfamiliar, dusty boxes of pots and china were stacked high, their contents waiting to make their annual appearance on the...
Post-Passover seder Shabbat dinner: Make it light and easy
The Passover seders fall midweek this year: the first one on Wednesday, April 5, and the second on Thursday, April 6. Most of us go out of our way to prepare substantial festive meals...
Delis may be dying, but they remain alive in our hearts
Which is more important: pastrami or making love?
This was a question that George Costanza, played by Jewish actor Jason Alexander, grappled with on a hilarious episode of “Seinfeld.” And, of course, there’s the episode...
Fish and fall fruits to break the Yom Kippur fast
It’s tradition! After Neilah services at my synagogue on Yom Kippur, there’s a surge to tables of light fare typically set out by the Sisterhood. Tired and hungry worshippers gather round to gulp down...
Bring on the Berkshires …
It’s been a scorcher of a summer, so when a friend suggested a trip to the Berkshire Mountains, this Northeasterner was ready for some cooler weather. Not quite a “staycation” (it was about a...
Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team goes vegan
In another first for the country with the highest number of vegans per capita, the Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball team will be called Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv for the upcoming season.
This is a slam...
Nostalgia in the form of rich dairy on Shavuot
It was a typical one-hour flight from Edinburgh to Shetland; tea and biscuits (cookies) were served by a smiling tartan-clad stewardess. My heart flipped as the little Saab plane bumped over the landing strip....
Not your mother’s (or even your grandmother’s) gefilte fish …
With larger numbers of family and friends expected at Passover seders this year as COVID numbers have gone down, hosts seem to be going all out this year with the homemade cooking, especially since...
Kosher soup kitchen joins with DoorDash in New York to help feed families
A Jewish-run and kosher-certified soup kitchen and food pantry operating in New York City has partnered with the food-delivery service DoorDash to provide meals and groceries to families in need in the boroughs of...