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Years after a boycott fight, Ben & Jerry's Israel debuts a flavor celebrating Israeli resilience
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (942+ words) (JTA) " Ben & Jerry's Israel operation has come up with a flavor that does not leave much to interpretation. Called "Milk and Honey," a nod to the biblical description of the Land of Israel, its namesake ingredients are supplied by Israeli…...
Whether it's viral dot cakes or Love Shack Fancy skirts, Chloe Hechter wants you to know that "Jewish-American Princesses did it first"
5+ day, 24+ min ago (635+ words) Chloe Hechter, a Jewish influencer with over 186, 000 Tik Tok followers Courtesy of Chloe Hechter On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Butterfield Market currently boasts hour-long lines for the viral "dot cakes," which are entirely covered by tiny sprinkles. For…...
Bamba blankets NYC after Park Slope Food Coop vote to boycott Israeli products. What's next?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1051+ words) (JTA) " Jewish institutions are responding to a boycott of Israeli products at a Brooklyn grocery store by buying up Bamba. Four thousand free bags of the Israeli peanut butter-flavored snack made their way Sunday along the Celebrate Israel Day Parade…...
Tidbits: For the first time, a kosher restaurant has won a Michelin star
2+ week, 3+ day ago (199+ words) Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don't know a word, just click on it and the translation appears. Listen to…...
For the first time, a kosher restaurant has won a Michelin star
2+ week, 5+ day ago (512+ words) (JTA) " As golden confetti rained down around him Thursday, Israeli chef Raz Shabtai broke down in tears and was embraced by his cheering staff. Moments earlier, a livestreamed Michelin ceremony had announced that his Miami restaurant, Mutra, had become the…...
Jewish group files cease and desist order against Park Slope Food Coop
3+ week, 1+ day ago (438+ words) Members shop at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn. Formed in 1973, the Coop is one of the oldest and largest food cooperatives in America. (James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images) (New York Jewish Week) " A group of pro-Israel activists…...
Reese's Pieces are now kosher pareve. Carnivores rejoice.
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (673+ words) By Louis Keene March 26, 2026 Antisemitism is on the rise. There's a war raging in the Middle East. Passover is bearing down on us and gas prices are higher than ever. And yet one morsel of good news came to Jewish…...
Despite what (Ashkenazi) tradition says, not everyone eats dairy on Shavuot
4+ week, 2+ day ago (786+ words) Not all Jewish communities explicitly connect Shavuot with dairy foods," Leah Koenig, whose cookbooks include the encyclopedic The Jewish Cookbook and the forthcoming The Dessert Table: 100 Joyful Jewish Sweets, told me. It is a reminder that Jewish cuisine is anything…...
The Park Slope Food Coop is fighting over another BDS resolution " and this time it may finally pass
4+ week, 2+ day ago (1474+ words) By Mira Fox May 20, 2026 Pink chalk outlines an approximately 20-foot-long rectangle on the sidewalk outside the Park Slope Food Coop, demarcating a sort of free speech zone to separate two camps of activists from the business of the organic grocery…...
What the private equity takeover means for the bagel industry
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1081+ words) The bagel's stock is on the rise and investors are hungry. But is that a good thing for the bagel itself? Graphic by i Stock/Mira Fox By Mira Fox May 9, 2026 The bagel's stock is, apparently, rising " literally. Private equity…...