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Trip to Bountiful
Sensory overload kicks in on a tour through a kosher food convention
There are now nearly 100,000 kosher products on the market, many of which make their debut at Kosherfest, an enormous annual trade show at which vendors small and large—and no shortage of celebrity pitchmen—hawk everything from crabless crabcakes to chocolate-covered Tam Tams.
Nextbook checked out this year’s Kosherfest, which occupied a vast hall at Manhattan’s Javits Center, to see what trends are emerging and to sample some of the more exotic offerings.
Minstrel Show
Parodies that make us cringe today used to make people roar. A music critic discovers Abie Cohen, the Jewish version of Aunt Jemima.
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Unmolested
An accused pedophile from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn has never faced trial, thanks in part to a D.A. who had political reasons not to pursue the case
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
