Kosher Restaurants Amid The Storm
With the challenging reality brought about by a pandemic stretching into nearly a year with no clear end in sight, kosher restaurants amid the storm brought on by COVID are experiencing profound losses. It is hard to think of a Jewish business sector more hard-hit than the kosher restaurant industry. The sudden nature and associated …
Ghost Kitchens Enter The Kosher Fray
There is another exhibit for how already in process changes have been further exacerbated by the pandemic. Ghost kitchens, a food delivery concept already gaining steam before COVID, have gone into overdrive and entered the kosher fray. For those unfamiliar, a ghost kitchen refers to a kitchen, generally fast food, that operates as a delivery …
Patis Bakery Comes To Avenue M In Brooklyn
For those who have traveled to Paris and experienced the patisseries and boulangeries that dot the City of Light, the bakeries don’t seem to cut it once back stateside. Sure, there are great kosher bakeries throughout the United States with a smorgasbord of practically countless options to choose from in places like the NY Metro. Still, though, …
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Revolutionary Cult Kosher Cereal Brand
When thinking of new products on the market upending their industries, it is unlikely that a cereal brand comes to mind. Revolutionary startups have usually been relegated to the tech world. That is beginning to change in a “slowly then suddenly” fashion where companies in all kinds of verticals innovate their categories and offer their …
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September 2020 Kosher News Brief
The famous Miami bakeshop, called Zak the Baker, has opened a falafel pop up. The annual Kosherfest convention has been postponed due to COVID-19, and a new date has not been announced. It was scheduled for the beginning of November. Patis Bakery is opening a Crown Heights location in the storefront that used to be Izzy’s Taqueria. The now-shuttered …
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Passover Programs Still In A State Of Limbo
Passover programs are still in a state of limbo as to whether they will be operating for 2021. We have seen some offerings being advertised for Sukkot, and we expect there to be at least some programs for Passover unless there is another lockdown. Raphi Bloom of TotallyJewishTravel.com, where operators advertise their programs, stated: “In normal …
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Jordache Is A Story Of Reinvention
If there is a poster story for the American dream, the family that built Jordache Enterprises, the Nakashes, would likely be prime candidates. Founded by a Jewish family of Syrian origin, the business began as Jordache Jeans decades ago. Through catchy and celebrity-laden T.V. campaigns, the brand gained immense popularity throughout the ’70s and ’80s. With the …
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Israel & UAE Peace Brings Kosher To Abu Dhabi
Since the Trump administration’s surprise announcement on August 13, 2020, of a peace accord between the UAE and Israel, things have been moving fast on the political front. Known as the Abraham Accord and brokered by Jared Kushner and his consigliere Avi Berkowitz has created a tenuous yet hopeful prospect of greater peace among Arab Gulf countries and the Jewish …
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Jewish Owned Century 21 Department Store Latest COVID-19 Casualty
Century 21, a famous department store with multiple locations concentrated in the northeast, is the latest business casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. The brand, founded in the ’60s by the Gindis, a Syrian Sephardic Jewish family, found great success by catering to bargain hunters seeking designer fashions at discounted prices. The first location was on 86th …
Parisian Vibes For NYC’s Kosher Restaurants
The trials and tribulations over the last few months brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic are wide-ranging. However, on the business continuity front, few businesses were initially hit as hard as those that depend on in-house dining. At the pandemic’s peak, numerous New York kosher restaurants closed their doors altogether, not even servicing takeout and …