Participants on this year’s Food and Culture track of Federation’s Israel YOUR Way mission took the path less traveled, seeing and tasting things tourists don’t usually experience.
Mission: Accomplished (and Tasty!)
About the Author
Merav Levkowitz is JFE®'s editor-in-chief and a writer, editor and content strategist. The daughter of an Israeli and a Colombian, Merav speaks six languages and has eaten her way around the globe. At any moment, Merav is planning either her next meal or her next trip—or both.
Teach Them to Fish
Founded by a Potomac-raised CESJDS graduate, Emma’s Torch is arming refugees with culinary training and English skills and preparing them for the culinary workforce. The organization recently opened a café in Brooklyn.
Israeli Pantry Essentials: The Starter Guide
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by the Israeli food craze? Just in time for Israeli Independence Day, Merav put together a list of top pantry staples you need to get started.
Birthright Cooks Up New Friends and Flavors
A recent food-focused DC community Birthright trip gave food-loving participants the opportunity to visit Israeli markets and an olive press, participate in a cooking competition at an organic farm and bond over food.
8 New Cookbooks to Curl Up With
2016 was a good—no, great—year for Jewish cookbooks (or cookbooks by Jewish authors). We’ve put together a gift-giving guide of eight of our favorites and whom they’re perfect for.
Satisfy Your Appetite for Adventure in Israel
Satisfy your appetite for adventure with a new Birthright Israel: DC Community Trip exclusively for DC-area residents. You’ll go camel trekking, float in the Dead Sea and taste the best of Israel.
Rescuing Food, Feeding Families
Leket Israel, the National Food Bank, rescues food from hotels, catering companies, IDF bases and dining halls and distributes it to the needy, simultaneously fighting food waste and hunger throughout Israel.
Kosher Kitchen Meets Modernist Cuisine
Gels, foams and sous-vide meat—it all sounds complicated…and not particularly kosher. Not so fast. With their Modernist Kosher supper club, two Maryland locals introduced scientific techniques to kosher ingredients.
Turning Up the Heat on Jewish Fare
Chef Todd Ginsberg, with his partners, is the force behind Atlanta’s booming Jewish and Israeli food scene, from Jewish deli The General Muir, sandwich shop Fred’s Meat and Bread and Israeli-inspired Yalla.
Kick-Starting Communities in Israel
With support from The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington’s United Jewish Endowment Fund, six months ago the Jewish Agency for Israel launched a new cooperative food program in Israel’s periphery communities.
