7/27/2023 0 Comments Jewish foodie hashtagsSome people buy only products labeled “glatt kosher,” a reference that originally referred to meat and the inspection of an animal’s lungs. These multiple branding systems mean that Jews encounter a supermarket of Jewish choices, allowing each individual to decide just what products to buy. These range from the Orthodox Union’s OU symbol to a simple K to symbols that have a male rabbi’s name attached to them indicating his approval of the product. In the United States, the growth of industrial food production for profit stimulated a wide array of products that could receive a symbol that labeled them as kosher. Following these guidelines is called “ keeping kosher”: either something is kosher and can be eaten or it is not. Judaism possesses an elaborate system that determines what food observant Jews can eat and which ones can be eaten together. Jewish American cookbooks across the 20th century have influenced the shifting tastes of American Jews’ vernacular religion, even as they have often reflected those tastes. These recipes have shaped the foods that American Jews have eaten, guiding what scholars call “vernacular religion,” or religion as it is lived. So are apples, since they are plentiful in this season.Īs a historian of American Jews, I have been fascinated by the changing character of what are considered “Jewish” foods as expressed in cookbooks. The wish for a sweet year gets expressed in food. ![]() These feasts traditionally include fish, soup, meat, vegetables, fruit, bread, wine and, of course, a sweet dessert. A large, multicourse feast opens the first evening, to be followed by another full dinner midday on the first day of the holiday and then a third substantial meal for the second day of the holiday. ![]() ![]() Rosh Hashana, by contrast, summons up many meals. And those who cook are thinking about the meals they will serve.Īlthough Yom Kippur is a day of fasting, it is preceded by a large dinner and concludes with a meal to break the fast. Choir leaders meet with their group members to rehearse hymns and other songs. Cantors, who lead congregants in worship, are practicing the special nusach, melodies used during the High Holidays for prayers. Rabbis are polishing their sermons for one of the few times they can be confident of a large congregation ready to hear what they have to say. The end of August inaugurated the Hebrew month of Elul, when Jews all over the world start getting ready for the High Holidays: the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashana followed 10 days later by the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur.
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