“Jews don’t believe in hell, but I’m telling you there is a Jewish hell. This is it. I’m Dave and I’m a waiter at Katz’s Deli.” Though most pastrami-loving diners would call the New York deli’s mountainous sandwiches and mouth-watering meats more heavenly than hellish, one of the establishment’s waiters seems to disagree. In what can only be assumed is a direct effort to get fired, David Manheim has created a YouTube-posted “talk show” during which …More

Any reason to eat some cheesecake is a good one. Shavuot is one of those reasons. So make this Shavuot a delicious one with this cheesecake recipe. Enjoy! Chag sameach! Time: 1 hour Makes: 12+ servings Ingredients: 1/3 cup butter or margarine 1 1/4 cups plus 3 tbsp sugar, divided 1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs 24 oz cream cheese, room temperature 4 eggs 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup sour cream Instructions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease 9x13-inch pan. 2. Melt butter or margarine. Add 3 …More

Coca-Cola has personalized its cans with common Hebrew, Arabic, and English names. [Tablet] A Jewish women’s Greek cuisine offers a Shavuot-themed recipe. [Jewcy] The Bronx High School of Science now houses a hands-on, professionally designed Holocaust museum. [Times of Israel] Budapest’s historic Jewish quarter hosts memorials to the tragedies and re-building it has seen since Jews first arrived in Hungary in the 12th century. [Times of Israel] Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu continue to …More

An annual chocolate celebration in France will pay tribute to the Jewish community for the first time, 500 years after European Jewry brought he sweet delight to France in the first place. The city of Bayonne, noted as France’s chocolate capital, will include a nod to Jewish heritage on the region’s Chocolate Day this Friday. The tribute is in reference to the 16th century Portuguese Jews who first brought chocolate to Bayonne when fleeing the Inquisition. “Since we are the inheritors of the …More

As Danny Kaye’s centennial year approaches, the legacy left behind by this ultimate entertainer includes a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, extensive tributes from UNICEF for his humanitarian work, a Kennedy Center Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and an immeasurable impact on the acting and singing community. But no amount of awards can measure up to his most recent posthumous addition to culture and Jewish life: New York’s famed kosher-style Carnegie Deli has added a new sandwich to its …More

Things haven’t changed that much since 1580, when British sailor Sir Francis Drake called this city on South Africa's southwestern coast as “the fairest Cape in the whole circumference of the earth.” Latter-day travelers seem to agree. In 2012 alone, Cape Town was named the second-best city in the world by readers of Conde Nast Traveller, the favorite city worldwide in the London Telegraph's travel awards, and the best beach destination in Africa by the World Travel Awards. If anything is …More

An Israeli start up is revolutionizing the way average families receive their daily milk. MiRobot is an automated milking system that produces quick, efficient milk retrieval, a coup of a system in Israel, which leads the world in milk production. “Automated milking systems that are on the market are not really appropriate for large dairy farms,” MiRobot’s CFO David Rubin recently told the Times of Israel. “The robots that are available can only handle about 70 cows a day — …More

On a corner in the heart of the former Jewish ghetto here, David Popovits sits down for some matzah ball soup and super-sized dumplings at his newly opened kosher-style restaurant. A burly, 40-year-old Hungarian Jewish businessman, Popovits used to eat in the restaurant as a boy, when its former owners ran a “dirty little place that smelled like oil but had good Wiener schnitzel,” as Popovits puts it. It wasn't the memories but the location that convinced Popovits to gut the place and reopen it two …More

Dorina Pilipovsky has been cooking since she was a little girl. She learned about Jewish food from her Russian Babushka, and has modernized the kosher classics just for you. Stay tuned for more recipes for the Jewish kitchen. Okay, the first time I heard of this I wasn’t so thrilled about it. But, then when you think about it, potato chip schnitzel is pretty genius—especially during Pesach. Who doesn’t love potato chips? And you know everyone loves chicken. Put them together and your kids will …More

The last Jews of Egypt. [Daily Beast] Lord Ahmed apologizes for "Jewish conspiracy" comments. [HuffPo] Israel's Jewish population passes 6 million mark. [Ynet] Reaching out to the "hidden Jews" of southern Italy. [Arutz Sheva] Belarus Jewish leader admits to tax evasion. [Times of Israel] A Haredi weekly paper censors female Holocaust victims. [Ynet] Reviving the spirit and schmaltz of the Jewish deli. [NPR] Stanley Kubrick's lost Holocaust film. [Tablet] …More

Swarms of locusts have invaded Israel in the past few weeks, destroying crops and causing the Israeli government to launch all-out aerial assault to destroy the pests. While most Israelis consider the locust storm a menace, some with adventurous palates have decided to turn the invading bugs into tasty, and arguably kosher, snacks. Chef Moshe Basson points out the bugs, which are mentioned in the Torah as being kosher, are not subject to rules of ritual slaughter, thus making them easy to prepare. Basson suggests …More

Libya has banned a Jewish philosopher from entering its borders. [Ynet] "Spider-Man" producers have agreed not to film in Brooklyn over Passover. [JPost] Twitter may be forced to pay $50 million in the anti-Semitic hashtag suit. [Forward] Hungary asks an anti-Semitic journalist to return a national award. [Arutz Sheva] Lard and schmaltz make a comeback in the kitchen. [NPR] Check out this recipe for a bitter herb Bloody Mary. [Tablet] …More