Jewlicious News TimBits – April 23
Some people think that little news happens during the Counting of the Omer. They are mistaken. Take a look at the tidbits of news from around the web. New York Magazine reports on…
Hebrew National Getting Grilled
Recent headlines casting doubt on the kosher status of Hebrew National at first came as somewhat of a relief. To those like myself who have avoided Hebrew National for years – first because…
The Ten Minute Seder, World’s Shortest Kosher Haggadah
Want a quick Seder to do with anxious relatives or kids? Presenting the “Ten Minute Seder.” This Hagaddah is two pages long and was created to be used at a Shabbat Tent Seder….
Everybody Look at me, I’m on a Boat
Some say it’s haunted. Some say it’s a masterpiece of Art Deco decor. Some say it is one of the finest ocean going liners ever built in the 20th Century. Whatever you want…
Holiday recipes as Sweet as the Traffic Around the U.N.
It is the Wednesday before Rosh HaShanah, and newspapers around the world, from the Manhattan’s Upper East Side to Toronto’s High Park, from the U.N. General Assembly to LA’s Pico-Robertson, are publishing special…
Jewlicious Reads: Craving Our Jewish Meat
Tired of those Jewish and Kosher cookbooks that focus on Passover dishes, blintzes and desserts? Do you crave the real food: meat and poultry? Do you celebrate the carnivore that you are? Then…
Kosher Sex. Toys.
No. KosherSexToys.net is not some lame product tie in to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s seminal work on presumably God approved Kosher Sex. Nope. What it is, is a Web site that markets sex toys…
Are Circuses Kosher?
Elephants, tigers, bears and other animals are used for entertainment in circuses. Extravagant animal acts at the circus seem like an age-old tradition that has been part of the fabric of society for…
Golan Heights Winery wins Gran Vinitaly Special Award
That means they make really good wine. The press release from the Vinitaly International Wine Competition couldn’t be any clearer, even though it’s slight awkwardness testified to the fact that it was originally…
The Evolution of Israeli/Kosher Wine
Yum With the high holidays rapidly approaching, this is the season where we buy a lot of wine. Thankfully, gone are the days where the only options we have for kosher wine are…
Chicago Catholic Family in Custody Dispute Forced to Live as Haredi Jews!
Oh the humanity… Poor Laura Derbigney! The Hispanic Catholic woman married her husband Nelson and then found herself in the middle of a nasty custody battle. See, Nelson married a Jewish woman a…
Pork Rinds Are Big
Don’t dig on swine I dunno. I just really enjoyed this video. And not just for the Jewish reference at the end. These guys are Muslims but they remind me of my parents!…
Newz Tidbitz
As another week comes to a close, we glean the news for timbits of interest. The most urgent story of the week comes from Reuters and The Jakarta Globe. The Chief of Police…
A Dream Realized – The Finest Kosher For Passover Slivovitz
It started when we lived in Warsaw and Rabbi Kastenbaum, our shochet, brought community-made slivovitz from Budapest to us for Passover. It was like nothing I had ever tried, was %70+ alcohol, and…
Keeping Kosher @ the Winter Olympics
This was originally posted to YeahThatsKosher.com: http://yeahthatskosher.com/2010/02/keeping-kosher-at-the-2010-winter-olympics-in-vancouver Enjoying the Vancouver Olympic Games but can’t find what to eat? Thankfully, there is some kosher food in Vancouver to keep you satiated and perhaps titillate…
French Breakfast in L.A.
When in Los Angeles, you can’t miss having breakfast at Delice Bakery. The croissants, strawberry jam, and eggs are amazing. Dani Klein from YeahThatsKosher.com checks out this restaurant for Jewish Travel TV. Check…
Wolves aren’t kosher, but lambs are.
The mysteriously named Wolf & Lamb Steakhouse in Midtown Manhattan is a great meat restaurant for a date or just to stuff your face with great food. Dani Klein from YeahThatsKosher.com checks out…
NY Lunchbox is bigger than a box, and has more than just lunch
Earlier this fall, NY Lunchbox opened up in the Garmet Center of Midtown Manhattan. Dani Klein from YeahThatsKosher.com checks out this restaurant for Jewish Travel TV. Check it out.
Crazy good meat at Smokey Joe’s BBQ in Teaneck, NJ
Dani Klein from http://yeahthatskosher.com checks out kosher restaurants for Jewish Travel TV. Smokey Joe’s BBQ on Cedar Lane in Teaneck, NJ is a unique Tex-Mex Barbecue style restaurant with amazing smoked meat including…
Kosher elk makes for game night
Our pal over at the LA Times, Jerry Hirsch has a great gastronomic delight to share – I thought it was pretty Jewlicious. Game night in the Hirsch household involves a dinner with…
Buy Streits Matzos This Passover!
No matter what you may have heard from the 5 Towns Vaad HaKashrus, I know they’re kosher for Passover because I am pretty sure God told me so in a dream last night….
KFC Launches Assault on Israeli Waistlines
Y-Net reports that the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain has taken steps to make all KFC restaurants in Israel Kosher by replacing their milk-powder chicken coating with an identical kosher soy-powder coating. The chain…
Jewlicious Burger?
Yes. Inspired by the Brooklyn Burger “a hamburger of such decadent and epic proportion that it would literally make women weep, men question their faith in God, and angels leap out of the…
Treif Kills. Well sort of…
Scienceline has written a report on a new study that shows that eating dairy products and red meat can kill you. The study suggests that red meat and dairy products contain a molecule…
He Killed A Chicken
Andy Kastner, brought up a Reform Jew and now into his third year at the Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, shechts his own chickens. Ritual slaughter, which used to be a standard part of…
