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Goodbye, Ben’s Best! Doors shut on iconic New York Jewish deli

Shiryn Solny01.07.2018

Its closing on June 30 leads to a question people hunger for: Why are there so few Jewish delicatessens left in the Big Apple?

The outside of the Jewish deli Ben’s Best in Queens, N.Y.,, which closed on June 30. Credit: Shiryn Solny.

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New York City schools to provide kosher food as part of new pilot program

24.06.2018

Congresswoman Grace Meng has long called for kosher and halal meals to be made available to students who attend the largest public-school system in the world.

P.S. 132, the Juan Pablo Duarte School, located at 185 Wadsworth Avenue between West 182nd and 183rd Streets in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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