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Tag Archives: kosher restaurants
I’m Thinking About Moving To Taiwan
This thriving country of 23 million has no Alexander Technique teachers. I should clean up! Email me if you’d like an Alexander lesson in Taiwan for US$100. Maybe I’ll pay a visit. On the down side, there are only about … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
Tagged alexander technique teachers, dense population, kosher restaurants, nature of the beast, orthodox jews, shooting match
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How Does A Kosher Restaurant Deal With Employees Who Want To Eat Non-Kosher?
Most employees at kosher restaurants in America are not Jewish. Most of them are immigrants from Mexico, most of them probably here illegally, and most of them like to eat pork products. So what does a kosher restaurant do when … Continue reading
Posted in Kashrut
Tagged bagel factory, garbage pails, kosher restaurant, kosher restaurants, separate dining room
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San Francisco Is A Tough Place To Be An Orthodox Jew
Heshy Fried blogs: “San Francisco isn’t like other cities, for a city its size it has a dismal amount of Jewish services for the observant folks. It has two kosher restaurants and a butcher, one of the kosher restaurants is … Continue reading
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Tagged heshy, jewish services, kosher restaurant, kosher restaurants, mikvah, orthodox jew
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Bizarre Profile Of FrumSatire
On Tabletmag.com, Hadara Graubert writes the strangest thing I’ve read online all week. Here’s an excerpt: "As someone who straddles the line between the Orthodox and secular worlds, Fried catches flak from all sides. The website Jewschool.com refuses to publish … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Journalism, The Jewish Press
Tagged frumsatire, kosher restaurants, ordination of women, orthodox judaism, reckless disregard, secular worlds, shabbat service
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Jerusalem Rabbinate Attacks Restaurant Blacklist
From JPost.com: The Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem and a group of capital restaurant owners have threatened to sue a rabbinic organization that published a damning report on the state of kashrut supervision in the Holy City. Kosharot, an organization based … Continue reading
Posted in Jerusalem, Kashrut
Tagged chief rabbinate, e mail, jerusalem post, jerusalem rabbinate, kosher restaurants, kosher supervision
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I Had Lunch At The Milky Way
It’s located next to Aish Ha Torah on Pico and Doheny. It’s one of the few kosher restaurants where you can have a quiet conversation. Steven Spielberg’s mom operates the place. She showed me to my seat. Then she came … Continue reading
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Tagged kosher restaurants, milky way, quiet conversation, quot quot, steven spielberg
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Magic Carpet Out Of Business
It’s a kosher Yemenite restaurant on Pico Blvd. I had readers who gave me a combined $1200 tab there. I’ve eaten there about 50 times. I’ve had a ton of dates there. Sometimes they led to great things. My favorite … Continue reading
Posted in Kashrut, Pico/Robertson
Tagged baubles, bbc, discretionary spending, eight hours, favorite dish, going out of business, kosher restaurants, magic carpet, malibu, phone number, pico blvd, stomach, synagogues
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Mamash Bites The Dust
It’s over. MAMASH IS HISTORY. It’s closed tonight. That’s the second of two great new upscale Kosher restaurants that have closed in the past few weeks after Prime Grill recently shuttered its doors and has now been sold to a … Continue reading
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Tagged doors, fame, jewelers, kosher restaurant, kosher restaurants, mediocre food, no doubt, premiere restaurants
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