Kosher in the news
Here are some recent news articles on kosher topics:
Hold the Mustard, Maybe Forever (New York Times)
New York’s Second Avenue Deli shuts it doors after a $9,000 increase in monthly rent.
Why the kosher diet gets people angry (Algemeiner)
Strategies for resolving tension between kosher and unkosher relatives.
New-wave kosher with Moroccan flair (LA Times)
Favorable review of BBC Cafe, a kosher Moroccan restaurant on LA’s Wilshire Blvd., under Heart-K supervision.
Hebrew University offers tour with classes in kosher cooking (Sun Sentinel)
Programs arranged by the Baltimore Hebrew University combine kosher cooking classes with European travel — Provence, Bologna, Tuscany.
Grocery adds line of kosher meats (Green Bay Press-Gazette)
Fresh kosher meats now available at Woodman’s Market in Howard, WI.
Kosher Persian in a Lush Setting (New York Times)
Review of “Colbeh” location in Roslyn Estates. Rating: very good.
Paradise Found: Kosher Cruises Chart a New Course (Forward)
Spotlight on Kosherica and JSingles kosher cruises.
Not just chopped liver (Helena Independent Record)
Joan Nathan’s French formulation for chopped liver pate. It’s a shame we have to broil our liver!
Well I love kosher, this is a great post. Informative and mouth watering,, I still can’t get over the 9,000 increase, jeez, they thought they were gonna rent another building??
That’s too bad about the 2nd Ave. Deli. I loved the barley soup and the “twin double” (one pastrami sandwich and one corn beef sandwich). It was a deli in the true sense of the word, down the the irascible but charming waitresses.
They should move to Park Slope. Rents are outrageous for Brooklyn, but still reasonable compared to Manhattan, and there are lots of Jews here but no kosher restaurants at all.
The previous attempt to open something kosher here was a pizza shop, but a kosher pizza shop depends exclusively on customers who keep 100% kosher; anyone else, even many people who keep kosher homes and mostly kosher out, are likely to get pizza at a treif place. But a deli is the sort of place that less-than-100%-kosher-keeping Jews — and even 100%-treif-keeping non-Jews — will frequent.
With the lower rent they could afford to close on Shabbat, too, which would increase their appeal to the more kosher crowd.
Even if they were closed on Shabbat, it wouldn’t increase their appeal to the more kosher crowd. That would require Orthodox hashgagah and a mashciach tamidi. I don’t think that there is a single Jew who doesn’t eat there now, but would if they closed on Shabbat, but kept their Conservative supervision and still had no onsite (and reliable) mashciagh.
Then you dont know that many kosher Jews. While they would avoid acknowledging the conduct, in this area “Orthodox” folks who will eat at kosher delis under “Conservative” hasgacha, owned by Jews and opened on Shabbat. They just might not do it in their own town.
Harlan,
You misunderstood what I wrote. I didn’t say that there are no self-described Orthodox who would eat there. What I said, was I doubt there is anyone who currently refuses to eat there, but would if the ONLY THING TO CHANGE was to close on Shabbat, but keep the current supervision.
You’ve got it backward. The only reason they had the C hechsher is because they were open on Shabbat. If they closed on Shabbat, they could get an Orthodox hechsher.