Can the Jewish Deli Be Reformed?
Posted by admin / Under Deli PonyWHEN a Jewish deli decides to stop serving salami, something is wrong in the cosmos. At Sauls Restaurant and Deli in Berkeley, Calif., the eggs are organic and cage free, and the ground beef in the stuffed cabbage is grass fed. Its owners, Karen Adelman and Peter Levitt, yanked salami from the menu in November, saying that they could no longer in good conscience serve commercial kosher salami. Its industrially produced meat that gets blessed by a rabbi, said Mr. Levitt, who came to Sauls two decades ago from Chez Panisse, just down the street. We all know that isnt...
A Mission To Save Real Jewish Delis, A Dying Breed
Posted by admin / Under Deli PonyThe other day, deep in Rego Park, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, Stanley Moscowitz and Walter Israel sat down at a Formica table for lunch at Ben's Best Kosher Deli on Queens Boulevard. Moscowitz, who's 53 and grew up in nearby Forest Hills, ordered first: matzo ball, tip of the tongue, roast beef, rye, Russian, onions and Dr. Brown's diet cherry drink. Israel ordered pastrami on rye bread. His son Jason ordered pastrami on white. In his defense, Jason did not ask for mayonnaise, but the combination of pastrami and white bread enjoys a certain...
NY: Mob rap in bagel boom (Deli firebombed in extortion plot; 'Sonny' and 'Vinnie' involved)
Posted by admin / Under Deli PonyMob rap in bagel boom Feds tie S.I. attack in '01 to gangland rivals BY ERNIE NASPRETTO and JOHN MARZULLI DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS My Deli in Staten Island was the target of a firebomb attack in 2001. Only in New York would a Mafia associate nicknamed The Irishman allegedly provide a bomb used to destroy a Pakistani immigrant's deli that was competing with a bagel store protected by the mob. The feds yesterday charged reputed Gambino crime associate Edward Fisher with orchestrating the December 2001 arson attack on My Deli and Grocery in Staten Island. Police had...
Three wounded after explosions in Delhi mosque
Posted by admin / Under Deli PonyNEW DELHI (Reuters) - At least three people were wounded in two explosions in the largest mosque in the Indian capital on Friday, television news channels reported.



