Inside the cool of a cavernous wine cellar stacked high with oak barrels of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, the tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seem to fade away even at this Jewish settlement in the heart of the West Bank.
Los Angeles’ food truck craze has motored on down to the kosher side of town. Kosher tacos where you walkest by the way, and even where you drivest by, are now on the menu and ready to order.
Israel\’s chief rabbi has banned the sale of non-koshered meat to Israeli supermarket chains.
Rabbi Elchonon Tenenbaum, a 30-something Chabad rabbi fresh off the boat from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, moved to Napa Valley four years ago. The rabbi hadn’t seen many vineyards in his life, and he hadn’t drunk much kosher wine outside of the strange, sweet brew made from Concord grapes that gives kosher winemakers a bad name.
Rosh Hashanah, literally translated as head of the year, begins this year at sundown on Sept. 8, ushering in a 10-day period for reflection on the past year and making resolutions for the new one. It is a time when families come together for festive meals and where sweet foods are traditionally eaten, symbolizing hope for happiness and a sweet life in the coming year. In some homes, families follow the ancient custom of substituting sugar in salt shakers to be used during the holiday.
President Obama did not order mayonnaise with his corned beef, the White House told a blogger who had written a mistaken report on the sandwich.
Teiglach came along with Tina Wasserman when she moved to Dallas in the 1980s.
Reports saying that a judge ruled that the New York Mets\’ ballpark must allow a kosher-food vendor to sell its products on the Jewish Sabbath \”mischaracterize the court\’s verbal ruling,\” the team said.
Moshe Zohar’s hands are rough and callused, his face lined with the dust of the desert he farms half an hour outside this southern Israeli city.
Florida prison inmates requesting kosher food will be able to join a meal plan supervised by the Aleph Institute.
