Teaneck Kosher Restaurant Owner to Compete in ‘Chopped’ Cooking Competition

 Chef Shalom Yehudiel, owner of the kosher restaurant The Humble Toast in Teaneck, New Jersey, will compete in an upcoming episode of the “Chopped” cooking competition on the Food Network.

Yehudiel is the first “Chopped” contestant for whom the show had a rabbi come and check the work station and food provided to make sure it was all conducive to cooking a kosher meal, NorthJersey.com reported.

“I’m really proud,” said Yehudiel, who was born in Israel and raised in Bergen County, New Jersey. “When they approached me, I called my rabbi to consult. I run a kosher restaurant, so I just don’t want to say yes if I can’t cook kosher.”

In the cooking competition, four chefs are given a mystery basket containing miscellaneous ingredients that they must cook with in the allotted time. There are three rounds ‐‐ appetizer, entree and dessert ‐‐ and at the end of each round one contestant is eliminated, or “chopped,” by the judges.

The last chef standing wins $10,000.

While the contestants received the same ingredients, Yehudiel’s were all kosher. He said that although kosher-observant chefs had competed on “Chopped” before, they were not able to taste their food before serving it to the judges, since the dishes were not prepared in adherence with kosher practices.

Yehudiel filmed the “Chopped” episode on June 20, 2019. He told NorthJersey.com that his involvement with “Chopped” began when he received an email inviting him to come to Manhattan for an entry interview. He did and waited months to hear back from the show. A team from “Chopped” eventually came to The Humble Toast to film some footage for the show.

The episode will air on Sept. 22 at 9 p.m. ET and feature celebrity chef and frequent “Chopped” judge Amanda Freitag competing against the contestants.

The Humble Toast ‐‐ a modern deli and burger bistro ‐‐ opened in 2018. According to its website, Yehudiel had worked for restaurant concepts around the US, and used his experiences to open The Humble Toast, which cures and smokes its own corned beef and pastrami.

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Former US senator from Minnesota Answers the ADL "Fake Fox"

Why Jews would vote for Trump: Answering Abe Foxman

 by Norm Coleman

The “more in sadness than in anger” trope is on full display in a recent Times of Israel op-ed by Abe Foxman about Jewish voters and President Trump. 

Foxman, who served as head of the Anti-Defamation League for decades and oversaw its shift from mainstream community defense organization to a shill for the left, offers a harsh critique of President Donald Trump’s record of unparalleled support for Israel and fails to make mention of the virulent anti-Semitism that now flows from the lips of the ascendant “progressive leadership” of the Democrat party; including Ilhan Omar, Rashid Tlaib and AOC. Let me set the record straight.

President Trump’s record is a story of perseverance and success in the face of overwhelming opposition – and his every success has benefited the United States and the Jewish community.

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Jerusalem's Great Synagogue to be closed for Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur for first time

 

Jerusalem's Great Synagogue will not be opening its doors to worshipers on the High Holy Days, due to the worsening coronavirus outbreak, according to a statement shared on Twitter by journalist Sivan Rahav Meir on Sunday morning.

The synagogue stressed that, while there many considerations for them to lean towards opening for the High Holy Days "in this format or another. Nevertheless, the deciding consideration was the personal safety of every one of you," in the statement on Sunday.

"A deciding factor in this consideration is the lack of information, confusion and debate between experts and the changes in regulations," added the synagogue. "The Great Synagogue is not like other places of worship. It is spread out, requires health checks at the door, and commits to forbid the entry of worshipers who didn't sign up ahead of time and, of course, commits to limit the number of worshipers. And even if we stand by these [rules], there's still a risk. One person makes a mistake, one person is positive [for the virus] and didn't know, one person who can infect another. The Great Synagogue asks to prevent this risk [from affecting] everyone of you.

The Great Synagogue will be closed for the first time since prayers began there in 1958.

"We will all pray for a better year, and if God wills, we will pray in the Great Synagogue soon "in a multitude of people with the King's glory" healthy and whole," added the statement by the synagogue.

The government will convene on Sunday to vote on locking down the country for at least two weeks beginning on Friday.

Since Thursday’s coronavirus cabinet meeting, the outline for prayer has shifted as well, becoming quite complicated.
 

In red zones worshipers will be allowed to gather in open spaces in groups of up to 20 people. As for prayers inside a closed building – where the level of morbidity is high, they will be held in groups of up to 10 people, and the number of groups allowed will be calculated according to the number of entrances to the place. All this while maintaining a person’s ratio per four square meters of space.

In other zones, the number per capsule will increase so that as many as 1,000 worshipers could potentially attend prayer services in a synagogue.

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Iran Hopes Biden Defeats Trump

 Iranians are carefully watching the U.S. presidential election campaign because they know their own future is on the line. But while two factions of the Islamist regime are campaigning against each other in advance of their own nation’s June 2021 presidential election, they clearly agree on one thing: both hope former Vice President Joe Biden is elected president of the United States in November.

The Trump administration’s sanctions have severely battered the Iranian economy. The Iranian recession is entering its third year, while the value of the nation’s currency has depreciated a stunning 84 percent from its high point.

Biden and his foreign policy advisers have pledged to reenter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that President Trump has withdrawn from. If Biden is elected and does that, the most crippling economic sanctions on Iran would be suspended.

The lifting of sanctions would be great news for Iran — but bad news for every nation concerned about Iran’s support of terrorist groups, threats to Israel and other Middle East nations, and potential for developing nuclear weapons that could pose a threat to our allies and the U.S. itself.

The Iranian economy boomed in the wake of the 2015 nuclear deal. Biden’s advisers have implied they are planning to make concessions, unilaterally if necessary, during President Hassan Rouhani’s final months in office that can help one of his protégés in the upcoming Iranian election running to succeed him.

America’s allies in the region — including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates — were opposed to the 2015 nuclear deal agreed to by President Barack Obama’s administration.

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