Sixth Sense

Anyone who has ever been to a major league baseball game knows that eating a hotdog in your seat while watching your favorite team is very much a part of the national pastime. So when I took my grandson to a Yankee game last week, the hotdog was very much part of the plan. After waiting for more than a half hour to clear

During my recent trip to Eastern Europe, I encountered a method of observing kashrus I had not seen in quite some time. A kashrus observing family naturally bought the few products that had kosher symbols but also many products that they judged to be “no problem” products. It included, of course, fruits and vegetables

As a frequent traveler to Europe, I used to enjoy kosher restaurant hopping and the unique cuisine in each European city. It was also a place to meet fellow kosher adherents from around the globe. But in several cities kosher restaurants are no longer safe havens and in fact have become primary targets from the growing

Kosher millennials are getting harder to define. Do they eat out more than their predecessors? Apparently yes, say kosher experts. Are they eating more at home? The answer is again yes. Ask any kosher housewife and she might direct you to a few shelves of kosher cookbooks as well as saved magazine supplements. They may

It isn’t often that an article on kosher in a secular Jewish publication catches my attention. But when The Forward (April 16, 2018) featured an article with the heading “The Curse of The Dairy Kosher Restaurant in Manhattan,” it gave me reason for pause. While it is true that many in my generation miss Ratner’s on

By the end of next week, America will know that Jews are celebrating Passover. Many luxury hotels will be off limits as they will host an exclusive Passover crowd. Try to book a flight in a host of US cities next week and the price is likely to be exorbitant, especially since Easter week this year coincides with Passover.

Just when I thought that I had categorized every type of kosher consumer, a conversation with an owner of a supermarket down South gave me a new one, the “why not” kosher consumer. Here was his proof: A customer we’ll call Irv is in his mid 40’s and is by no stretch of the imagination a practicing Jew. He does not

I got a really good laugh from an ad by a local retailer in Brooklyn depicting the scene in Megilat Esther where the wicked Haman leads the pious Mordechai through the streets of Shushan yelling “Take me to _____with its Lower Prices.” With the hectic Passover season looming, any retailer could use a bit of levity.

For students enrolled in yeshivas, the customary mid-winter vacation has been renamed “Yeshiva Week.” For several days in Miami Beach, it very much looked like the winter Catskills with entire families vacationing in the warmer (perhaps not as warm and as sunny as they would have liked but certainly warmer than back