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THE ISH

NYC, 4/24, 6:30-9pm
Balaboosta's 5th Annual Seder Dinner
Chef Einat Admony joins forces with Ilan Hall (Top Chef Winner and host of Esquire Network’s Knife Fight) to host a 5-course Passover Seder dinner

NYC, 5/23, 7:30pm
Mandy Patinkin's Solo Show for National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
For one night only at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Mandy - or Saul from Homeland - honors Yiddish culture with an eclectic program of songs

NYC, Thru 8/7
Isaac Mizrahi Unbound at the Jewish Museum
Once upon a shortsighted time, Isaac's yeshiva classmates bullied him for being overweight and effeminate

NYC, 9/21, 7pm
An Historic Evening with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
On August 10, 1993, The Notorious R.B.G. took her judicial oath and became the first Jewish female US Supreme Court justice

TALLAHASSEE, 4/10, 10:30AM-4PM
Tallahassee Jewish Food & Cultural Festival
Including musical entertainment from Bagels & Biscuits

TEL AVIV, Weekends
A Weekend Break in Tel Aviv
Where to stay and what to do on a 2-day trip to the Big Orange

SF, Thru 5/31
Uninhibited About Sex at the JCC of SF
“Jews are some of the sexiest people around and good healthy sex is a Jewish value,” says Barbara Lane, director of the JCCSF’s Arts & Ideas program

YORK, PA, 4/17, 12-4pm
York JCC Jewish Food Festival
From beef brisket to black and white cookies, the festival and its cookbook are free

Eat

Eat Out

BERKELEY
Saul's Deli
The longest-standing deli of its kind in the East Bay celebrates 30 years

JERUSALEM
Machneyuda
The farm-to-table restaurant that takes its culinary inspiration from Mahane Yehuda, the market right next door

NYC
Bison & Bourbon
3 Crown Heights entrepreneurs are taking over a Turkish cafe on Seventh Street and turning it into a meat-focused kosher restaurant, bar and lounge

NYC
Reserve Cut
A 29-year old owns NYC's largest kosher steakhouse and the only one in Lower Manhattan

Eat In

S weet Saba Candies for Adults
Maayan, an Israeli and former lingerie designer, now crafts candy objects molded from real items in her past

Kosher Dry Rub Recipe from the Brisket King of NYC
Chef Ari White learned how to slow-smoke meats from his father in Texas and his lamb brisket was voted the best in the city

5 Wines You Won't Believe Are Kosher
You might as well enjoy that 4th cup of wine at the seder

Red Velvet Hamentaschen Recipe
It's never too late to whip up a batch
of these

Read, Watch, or Listen

Read
- Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do)
- The Book of Esther as a manual for Jewish survival
- A pretty definitive guide to Jewish Twitter
- What does it take to be considered Jewish?
- Albert Einstein on the spirituality that comes from scientific inquiry
- How NYC's Jewish food scene got hip
- Chefs rediscover schmaltz

Watch
- She's rude, lewd and she wants you to rethink Israel
- Food critic, Jonathan Gold, whose father considered deli food to be a sacrament, stars in a food documentary about LA

Give or Get

Challah Back Onesie
WhatJewWannaEat, $20

Rihanna's 8th Studio Album - Anti
The cover is a work by Israeli-born artist Roy Nachum
Amazon, $13.49 for MP3

Meet

After losing his ability to read and write, Daniel Friedman became the straight Jewish white man making bespoke suits for New York's queer

Susan Katz Miller is busting false binaries with her book, Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family

Do you have something we should DO, EAT, READ, GIVE or GET, or someone we should MEET?

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