In case you still can't believe it, Passover is around the corner and we've got the annual survey. Bottom line: more innovation, more good wines and less duplication... On the day of a tragic suicide bombing in Eilat, Israel's most Southern city, there is word that a major authority in Jewish law has ruled that for Passover the city should be treated like being in the Diaspora... Sarah Cohen has an interesting feature on kosher appliances... Has the level of service gone down in some upscale kosher restaurants?... With so many kosher marts closing around the country, one Philadelphia popular market actually gets a reprieve... Israeli jams get a face lift... Organic dried fruits for Tuv Beshvat later this week...Flights to Israel and hotel rooms for Passover may be hard to come by... Here and There tells us a Tnuva buyer may be identified this week, a new kosher gourmet supermarket is to open on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the OU sponsors a seminar on "nikur", and a West Side popular restaurant upgrades its kosher certification... With all the new products for Passover, Eda Kram's New Product Showcase looks at some new challah... Happy Tuv Beshvat!

 

Menachem Lubinsky
Editor-in-Chief