Food and Drink
Jewish cuisine is one of the biggest influences in Yeh’s cooking. One reason is that because she lives on a farm, she no longer has the luxury of going to a local store and buying herself a Jewish-inspired meal. If she wants one, she must make it from scratch.
One woman’s project becomes another person’s package: of dinner items, blankets, socks, prayer books and more.
To highlight women’s role in the wine industry, evening features a panel of four female Zionist leaders making social change in Israel, connecting their ability to do so with the land.
And along with the grilled food comes some history of the holiday, including Passover being the original Independence Day.
“We use wine to make blessings and when we want to have a big party, so it’s fitting that we have wine when we celebrate a big event like going out of Egypt,” said Micha Vadia of the Galil Mountain Winery.
The region has grape-growing characteristics and quality that’s hard to find elsewhere, according to the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.
“It’s a blessing for me and my family to be able to produce such great wines from a land like the land of Israel, so we’re constantly counting our blessings for that,” Stoudemire told reporters.
Just one week after passing a controversial law criminalizing phrases indicating Polish responsibility for heinous crimes against Jews during the Holocaust, Poland’s ruling party has sponsored a new bill outlawing traditional Jewish ritual slaughter with a penalty of up to four years in prison.
While many American and Israeli Jews may think negatively about Europe these days, there are indications of a rising number of Jews living in relative comfort in many of Europe’s largest cities.
Israeli winemakers say that, just like the beverage they produce, their industry is growing better with age. In the past few years, Israeli exports of wine and spirits have been consistently growing at around 6 percent annually, according to the Israel Export Institute.
A kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb was destroyed in an arson attack on the third anniversary of the deadly Islamic terror attack on the French capital’s Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket.
