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Located on Shlomtzion Hamalka Street, La Boca is the city's only restaurant specializing in Central American and South American kosher meat dishes.

Spanish-speaking cultures of the Americas are not often considered a cohesive unit when it comes to their culinary heritage, but at La Boca, which bills itself as a "Latin" restaurant, Mexican favorites like chicken enchiladas and beef empanadas appear harmoniously alongside classic Agentinian dishes like bife de chorizo and entrecote with chimichurri.

La Boca's kitchen staff is highly ambitious, having mastered the complexities of Spanish paella with entrecote, chorizo and chicken; coriander-sauteed vegetable fajitas and Brazilian salsa-enhanced coconut spring chicken. Larger groups of diners with adventurous spirits are encouraged to check out the parilla platters, which cover the gamut of grilled meats, including entrecote, lamb ribs, spring chicken and chorizo, with fries and a green salad to boot. La Boca also features a full bar, complete with a variety of wines, beers, spirits and cocktails.

Latin American food's popularity in Israel can be explained by any number of factors, including a steady influx of immigrants from those parts of the world, a steady flow of returning Israeli backpackers who have enjoyed treks there, and healthy doses of respect for global soccer legends. However you might want to explain the phenomenon, La Boca's positioning in the Jerusalem culinary scene is strong, and the quality of the food surely has something to do with it.

Anti Semistism -Denying Jews Individual Rights Anti Zionism - denying Jews to define themselves as a Collective

There is no difference between denying Jews individual rights, which is the definition of anti-Semitism, and denying Jews the right to define themselves as a collective, which amounts to anti-Zionism.

“As a young boy,” wrote Stephen Pollard in last weekend’sT elegraph. “I used to think my grandma very strange. In her bedroom she kept a suitcase, packed and ready for use at a moment’s notice. ‘Just in case,’ she’d tell me when I asked where it was that she was always waiting to go to. ‘You never know when they’ll turn on the Jews.’”



At the time, Pollard didn’t understand what she meant, since Jews in Britain were integrated and thriving. Lately, though, as the anti-Semitism coming out of the British Left chills him to the bone, he has begun to understand her better.



Over the weekend, Britain found itself in turmoil. It was no longer possible to hide the shame. Anti-Semitism has reared its head from within the bastions of the Labour Party.



There were telltale signs along the way. But it’s easy to live in denial. What with Ken Livingstone, the former Mayor of London who was suspended from the Labour party and is at the center of the current commotion, acting as official host to the anti-Semitic Muslim preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi.





Labour member and former London mayor Ken Livingstone (Photo: Reuters)







Other Muslims warned him that his actions will encourage other Muslim extremists. It made no difference to him. Al-Qaradawi, they told him, is an anti-Semite and a supporter of Hitler. He paid them no mind. So why is anyone surprised now that Livingstone is continuing down the same path?



The current wave began when Alex Chalmers, then Chairman to the Oxford University Labour Club, resigned in protest due to anti-Semitic markers that started creeping up among other club members. It was the club’s decision to support Israeli Apartheid Week, which translates into additional support to Hamas and more lecturers who peddle anti-Semitic brainwashing rhetoric that broke the camel’s back.



It wasn’t contained in the headlines, though. Editorials also began to concern themselves with the issue. The Guardian, the Left’s flagship newspaper, tried to tiptoe between what it considered anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, obviously seeing the latter as legitimate.







But therein lies the proof, since even in its present incarnation, most of the British Left is in denial. There is no difference between denying Jews individual rights, which is the definition of anti-Semitism, and denying Jews the right to define themselves as a collective, which amounts to anti-Zionism. And there is no difference between demonizing individual Jews and demonizing the Jewish State.

There is, of course, a need to distinguish legitimate criticism of the policies put forth by any Israeli government from the invalidation of Israel’s right to exist, as there is a need to distinguish between criticism and demonization. But the Left is having trouble differentiating between the two, and in fact has long since crossed any and all red lines in the matter. Don’t say occupation, since those supporting the current anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic rhetoric aren’t against the settlements. They’re for Hamas and Hezbollah.

This isn’t coming from the fringes, either. It’s the story of the leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn. At present, he is having trouble handling the anti-Semitic crisis plaguing his party, while continuing to claim that he is against all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism, despite never having recanted his publicly-declared sympathy for Hamas and Hezbollah, two organizations intent on the annihilation of the Jews.



British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Hamas, the internationally proscribed Islamist Terrorist Organisation endorsed Jeremy Corbyn MP in the Labour Party leadership contest. He did not reject their endorsement.Corbyn has been a frequent speaker at pro Palestine Rallys in the UK and USA 
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But that’s Israel’s doing, certain members of the Left might tell you. There’s something to that. But it isn’t because of the real Israel. It’s because of the Israel they choose to describe. A “child murdering community,” as Mark Steel wrote in The Independent. If this is Israel, then it truly has no right to exist. But this isn’t Israel. It is a blood libel.

During the first year of the British-American invasion of Iraq, more children were killed, even relatively speaking, than during all the years of the Israeli-Arab conflict. But Steel and his friends from the Left would rather make Israel a child murderer while innocently claiming that anti-Zionsim isn’t anti-Semitism.



Adding to this is The Lancet, a prestigious British magazine that provides a platform for declared anti-Semites masquerading as human rights activists, despite their source material being the right-wing anti-Semite David Duke.

So there is a problem. The British Left and the Labour Party are just in denial over it.

The upside to the current disturbance lies in the fact that a discussion is being conducted at all, in which clear-headed and brave opinions are also heard. But this is only the beginning.

It is doubtful that the British Left will realize that the demonization of Israel and denying of Jews and Jews alone the right to self definition are the basis out of which the renewed anti-Semitism grows.

This insight hasn’t seeped in yet. And so the British Left is in for a long and arduous withdrawal process. One that it will doubtfully see through.

Israeli Celebrity Chef Eyal Shani invades Austria with his culinary arrogance

This will be the Israeli restaurateur's fifth location of his Miznon gourmet pita chain, and his second in Europe.

   

Eyal Shani's Miznon restaurant in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv's culinary happenings: Eyal Shani opens a new grocery store and more

La vie en pita

Israeli celebrity chef Eyal Shani is taking his everything-in-a-pita chain Miznon to Austria, the chef’s business group confirmed Wednesday. This will be Miznon’s fifth branch. The chain is expanding into Vienna, the new hot destination among Israelis.

Miznon initially opened on Tel Aviv’s Ibn Gvirol Street in 2011. At the time, it was was considered an unconventional idea - gourmet pita sandwiches at not-so-cheap prices with fillings that went beyond the standard street food fare. 

Shani later opened two more branches in Tel Aviv, and then launched a kosher branch in Paris two years ago. The French branch was very successful, drawing a clientele that went beyond Israelis.

Unconventional dishes at Miznon include Shani’s signature roasted cauliflower in a pita, as well as chewing gum-flavored ice cream served in a pita for dessert. 

Neta Bar, the group’s restaurant manager, said that renovations on the Vienna restaurant had begun a few days ago. It is scheduled to open in two months, and it will not be kosher.

The Vienna branch will have the same atmosphere and design as the other branches, and many of the dishes will be similar to those served in Israel, with the addition of a few local specialties, she noted. The French branch offers boeuf bourguignon in a pita, for instance, and the Austrian location is also likely to offer specialties in a similar spirit, she said.

Beyond his nine restaurants, including the new Vienna location, Shani is known in Israel for his antics as a judge on the local Master Chef reality show.

Antibes Restaurant Manhattan.... a long and unusual culinary road from from Mea She'arim in Zion

   

One of the delights served up at Eyal Tov's Manhattan French restaurant Antibes.Sasha Gitin
Eyal Tov, 34, was born to a ultra-Orthodox family in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood. “Yes, with sidelocks and tzitzit,” he says.

At age 14 he decided to abandon religious observance. Now he’s the owner of the French restaurant Antibes, the popular bar Schapiro’s and a falafel shop, all in Manhattan’s hip Lower East Side. It would be a shame to miss any of them if you’re in the area.His  road to New York was an interesting one.

“At age 14 I concluded that I was feeling suffocated and abandoned religion,” he says. “I moved to Tel Aviv, worked as a model, acted at the Tmuna theater, appeared in ad campaigns and was a photographer’s assistant,” he recalls.
He found his connection to food at the first branch of Cafe Cafe, now a major coffee shop chain, where he worked and eventually became an active partner. Then he decided to move to New York. His mother is American, which made the move relatively smooth.

But his start there wasn’t easy. Initially he worked as a furniture mover, like many Israelis in the Big Apple. He and his brother organized parties, which brought in some money. They had various business ideas that never developed. And then he decided to open a French bistro.

“I’d been to the city of Antibes on the French Riviera, and I very much liked it. The city has a strong connection to art, culture and the Mediterranean. It reminded me a bit of Tel Aviv, and I thought that a restaurant inspired by this city could find a place in New York. I launched the restaurant and later took on David Shemesh, who studied at Le Cordon Bleu and became our chef.”

Tov opened the restaurant in the Lower East Side, where he lives and was the first stop in the United States for tens of thousands of Eastern European Jewish immigrants during the early 20th century. “I love this neighborhood, with its atmosphere, its energy and its connection to New York history,” he says.

The French restaurant Antibes in Manhattan’s hip Lower East Side.Sasha Gitin

Once the Jewish immigrants became more established, they usually moved out to greener pastures and were replaced by groups of other immigrants. The neighborhood began to revive around 15 years ago, as artists, yuppies and hipsters began moving into the neighborhood, turning it in a popular entertainment spot for young people. Hotels and galleries have been springing up and real estate has skyrocketed.

Antibes, located at 112 Suffolk Street, is Tov and Shemesh’s flagship restaurant. The lighting is dim, it has an exposed brick wall and the floors are wood. The atmosphere is pleasant, with 1960s music playing in the background.

My favorite appetizer was the beets with goat cheese, roasted nuts and herbs. Other menu items include asparagus with wild mushrooms, creme fraiche and crispy Parmesan; grilled octopus; and goose liver pate served with caramelized pear and aged balsamic vinegar, micro leaves and port. My favorite dish was the grilled branzino fish served with artichoke hearts and a sesame-green garlic crust. I also recommend the melt-in-your-mouth Guinness-braised short ribs, served with a potato gratin and spinach.Notable desserts include the halva kadaif, an espresso mascarpone with curled halva and pomegranate sauce.


Five minutes away by foot is Schapiro’s, at 120 Rivington Street, one of the Lower East Side’s main streets. Unlike Antibes, Schapiro’s is colorful and noisy. The site was the home of Manhattan’s last winery – and a kosher one at that, Tov notes.

He sought to turn the site into a bar while preserving historic elements from the old neighborhood, he says. The walls bear prints from an old printer, there are lights from a subway station, and the bar even sports a large menorah. Tov promises patrons great cocktails.

“Our barmen don’t just mix drinks. The level of our barmen is such that they know as much as the chefs.”

He asks the barmen to give us a sample, and it was indeed a treat. The West End of London is made of Ford’s gin, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, pernod and concord grape juice. I also tasted the Person of Interest, made of Old Forrester bourbon, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, crème de peche and sage. I particularly liked the Club 57 made of Eldorado rum, cardamom syrup, fresh-squeezed lime and pineapple juice, and the Schapiro’s Pimms Cup, made of Pimms, Campari, lemon juice, ginger syrup and crushed strawberries. Most of all, I enjoyed the Lush Life, made of Pueblo Viejo tequila, pineapple cilantro shrub, lime juice and agave.
Another speciality of Eyal Tov's Manhattan bistro Antibes.Sasha Gitin

For those who prefer wine, the wines are all American, as are most of the beers on offer. “We wanted to preserve the American character of the place,” Tov says.

If it’s food you want, Schapiro’s, which is open until way past midnight, offers matza ball soup, with the matza balls made from matza meal from Streit’s, once the only commercial matza bakery in the city and also formerly located in the neighborhood. Shemesh is the chef here, as well. The menu includes other typical American fare, like meat loaf and steaks.

On the other side of Rivington Street, at No. 127, Tov has another eatery called The Falafel Shop, which he opened with his brother Elnadiv. Here you’ll hear lots of Hebrew. Maayan arrived only a few months ago from Israel and the confectioner, Zacharia, comes from France.

We began with a freshly squeezed drink called The Beat, comprising beets, carrot, apple, celery and ginger. You can also have a local version of sabich, and of course, falafel and hummus. The pitas are imported semi-frozen from Angel’s Bakery in Jerusalem and baked on the premises. The menu also lists shakshuka and salads.

Given that Mediterranean and Middle Eastern food has become increasingly trendy in New York, Tov plans to open another falafel shop on Second Avenue, not far from the Israeli consulate. “I believe we can further develop the falafel business and open more branches,” he said.
Only recently, he added, The Falafel Shop became kosher, “which is bringing a clientele here that didn’t come before.”

So where does he stand with regard to religion nowadays?

“I’m not religious and I don’t wear a kippa, but I put on tefillin [phylacteries] every day. Today I’m more of a believer than I was in Israel. When you live in Israel, your Judaism is self-understood. After many years of living abroad, my faith has actually strengthened.”
Antibes, 112 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002; Shapiro’s. 120 Rivington St; The Falafel Shop 127 Rivington St, New York, NY 10002

Italkia Ba'Tachana Restaurant... Italian with Polish,Class and Consistency in the Tel Aviv Old Train Station (Hatachana )

Italkia Ba’Tachana.... Nice atmosphere polish, classy and consistency .... well worth a visit (or two)

Located in one of Tel Aviv´s historical sites, in the renovated Old Train Station area (“Ha´Tachana”), Italkia Ba´Tachana (“Italian in the station”) restaurant offers a Southern Italian fare of meat, fresh seafood and classically inspired specialties. Best described as rustic in appearance, in a restored building dating back to the beginning of the 20 century, Italkia Ba´Tachana offers delicious cuisine with a full menu of Italian favorites from the kitchen of well known Chef Amir Marcovitz.

Open for business 7 days a week for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Weekdays opening hours are from 10:00 AM till midnight. On Saturdays and Sundays we open at 10:00 AM. We offer a business menu for lunch Sunday through Friday, between noon to 5:00 PM. Parking is never a problem when you visit us as the parking of the Old Train Station is only minutes away.

Italkia Ba´Tachana, Ha´Tachana area, 03-5222664

Cameo in Zion... New Restaurant in the Hatachana Complex in Tel Aviv

Cameo is one of the  hottest new restaurant-bar in the old train complex ,Hatachana, Neve Tzedek,Phone:03-558-9855

Like any cosmopolitan city whose entertainment economy is heavily geared towards the gastronomic, the White City can sometimes overwhelm with new places to try. Luckily, one new restaurant stands firmly above the pack: Cameo, a new venture by local chef Eric Kiel  in the old train station complex.The focus of the creative menu is on modern Mediterranean cuisine, with a strong emphasis on fresh, local ingredients. Diners can indulge in new twists on old classics, such as the tuna tartare with shallots and a chili vinaigrette, or papaya salad with peanuts, mint and coriander.

Amongst the mains: chicken liver with mushrooms, onions, figs and balsamic vinaigrette – but the pièce de résistance of the menu is no doubt the foie gras served with brioche and yellow chutney. Vegetarians can also get in on the action with a Loretta cheese dish served with colorful cherry tomatoes, olives, and basil.Dining at Cameo becomes a multi sensory experience with its hotspot sprawling alfresco bar and night-out feel. The proprietors have constructed a fine atmosphere without being stuffy. The indoor restaurant boasts a sleek lounge bar, various nooks for dining and décor inspired by the Rococo period, while the outdoor open terrace is all about the party – playing host to live music with private cabanas for intimate parties.

Ready to get the night started with bottle service? With its breezy outdoor space and eclectic menu, Cameo is undoubtedly the perfect summer venue for summer wining and dining.

Jews in Politics : Lord Mayor of London to Lets Dump Trump's Orthodox Jewish Daughter and Hiliary's Jewish Son In Law and Step Dad

• Sir Benjamin Samuel Phillips, first Jewish Alderman and was Lord Mayor of London, serving in 1865. Also served as Sheriff of the City of London before becoming Lord Mayor.
• Sir David Salomons, first Jewish Lord Mayor of London, serving in 1855. Also was the first Jewish Sheriff of the City of London
• Sir Samuel Joseph, Lord Mayor of London in 1943
• Sir Bernard Nathaniel Waley-Cohen, 1st Baronet  He was the 633rd Lord Mayor of London, elected in 1960.[1]
• Peter Keith Levene, Baron Levene of Portsoken KBE (born 8 December 1941 - in Pinner) is chairman of Starr Underwriting Agents Limited and was Lord Mayor of London 1998 to 1999.
• Sir James Michael Yorrick Oliver (born 13 July 1940) was an investment banker and Lord Mayor of London for 2001-02.
• Sir David Thomas Rowell Lewis (born 1947 in Hong Kong) was Lord Mayor of London for 2007–08.
• Ian David Luder CBE JP (born 1951) was the 681st Lord Mayor of London, serving from 2008 to 2009.
• Sir Michael David Bear (born 21 January 1953, Kenya) was the 683rd Lord Mayor of London, whose one-year term began on 12 November 2010 and ended 11 November 2011.

Of the 687 Lord Mayors of London to date that go back to the 14th Century, over 80 have been Jewish .That us an incredibly high percentage given that today Jews represent just 2% of the population of London ( today). 

The mayoral election campaign should have been a difficult time for London’s Jews. Happily this is partly wrong. My erroneous prediction was based on two developments. The first was the early entry into the race of notorious race-baiter George Galloway. As he had done in the past in parliamentary elections both in London and in Bradford, it was expected that Galloway would try to whip up sectarian tension within local Muslim communities. This time he could have done so by both questioning the devoutness of the Labour Party’s Muslim candidate Sadiq Khan and by a whisper campaign reminding the voters of the Jewish roots of the Conservative Party’s candidate Zac Goldsmith. The second was the landslide election last year of far-left MP Jeremy Corbyn, friend and endorser of terrorists, anti-Semites and Holocaust-deniers as the new leader of the Labour Party. Corbyn’s victory of course does not mean that the majority of Labour members share the opinions of the odious characters their party leader has happily shared platforms with, but it does indicate they were unperturbed by it.

Too  much pessimism perhaps was put on Galloway’s rabble-rousing capabilities. They had already failed last year in the general election when the good people of Bradford resoundingly booted him out of parliament and they have been failing him again in London. With two weeks to go before the London election, the latest polls show his support at 0 percent. Hopefully we are now seeing the end of his malignant presence in politics and he will remain only in the fetid echo-chambers of social media and the studios of dictatorship-owned hate channels like Russia Today and Iran’s Press TV. Instead of being dragged by Galloway into vicious mudslinging, frontrunner Sadiq Khan has run a respectable campaign and gone out of his way to reassure London’s Jews that as mayor he will be on their side. Is this because Khan is fundamentally a decent candidate or simply a calculating politician? Probably a bit of both  But the calculation behind courting the Jewish vote, not only in London, but in many countries around the world bears further investigation.




Oy Vey: The most embarrassing Jewish moments of the New York primaries

New York may have settled it: The next U.S. president will be Trump or Clinton
Have the Children of Israel ever known such relentless praise and love? With the New York primaries of the two main American political parties barely over, across the pond London’s mayoral election enters it final stretch. The edifying spectacle of goyishe candidates wearing kippot, breaking their teeth on talmudic sayings and baking matzot is duplicated on both sides of the Atlantic. Is this good politics? Do the numbers of Jewish voters in the boroughs of the United States and the United Kingdom’s greatest cities warrant this kind of attention? That’s debatable. Psephologists in both countries who have analyzed Jewish voting trends are far from certain they are a crucial constituency in either electoral battleground. So why do candidates spend valuable and disproportionate campaigning time in synagogues and mock seders? Because working for Jewish votes is never just working for Jewish votes.

Blaming the Jews for every national misfortune and complete indifference to their fate were staples of Western politics in the not too-distant past. This was true not only of Nazi Germany and its allies, but of the Soviet Union throughout much of its history and shamefully, at times also of some Western democracies. If anyone wants a more recent reminder of how that used to work, check out some of the stuff being said over the last few years by prominent members of the ruling party in Turkey, including its president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to explain their country’s economic downturn and increasing diplomatic isolation. It is no coincidence that Turkey’s once-flourishing Jewish community is dwindling at a faster rate than any other around the world as its members emigrate to Israel and Western Europe. But in no other country have senior politicians followed Erdogan’s example.
In Britain, France and Germany, there are relatively large Jewish communities, but there are much greater numbers of Muslims. But none of these country’s leaders have tried to pander and in any way incite against the Jews, or even try to find favor by taking a tougher stance against Israel. The same is true in less-democratic Russia and Ukraine, where in the past politicians have routinely used Jew-baiting to garner popularity. It should almost go without saying that the same is true of the United States but as we are seeing now in the primaries, even in the country where Jews have been more successful than any other Diaspora community in history, things are not that simple. Sure, Donald Trump has taken part in the Jewish love-fest with the rest of the candidates but there is also a disturbing edge to some his humor directed at Jewish voters and he is clearly not above stoking sectarian paranoia and xenophobia as is evident in the way he talks about Mexicans and Muslims. There are other disconcerting tendencies on the left side of American politics as seen in some of the questions asked of Bernie Sanders about Jewish influence in media and the economy and the Internet hoax of his alleged Israeli citizenship. Sanders shrugged these questions off, but total complacency is a mistake.


It is tempting to believe that David Cameron, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel stand by their Jewish communities, even if this may not always be politically expedient, because for all their faults they are basically decent people. But the same can not be said for the authoritarian Vladimir Putin and hatemonger Donald Trump. There are at the very least signs, if not evidence, that their friendliness to the Jews is based more on their belief in Jewish power and influence; a belief which is just the flip side of open Jew-hatred. It is a belief which can manifest itself in a desire to be allied with the Jews but also in antipathy and hostility towards them. And that can be based on nothing more than naked political expediency. Such transformations are apparent right now throughout the West where once anti-Semitic and even neo-Nazi, far-right parties are trying to rehabilitate and detoxify their images by professing love and admiration for Jews and the Jewish state. At the same time, on the far-left there is growing tolerance and even acceptance of Judeophobia. In both cases it is a stark example of what happens when politics is not accompanied by human decency.

In the Haggadah t, we l repeat the warning every year“that in every generation someone stood up to destroy us." That someone could be an unexpected turncoat, as the Talmud says of the “new king in Egypt” who enslaved the children of Israel: “One says he was actually a new king, another says his edicts were new." We sing and rejoice with it on Pesach but we should never forget that the Haggadah is also the Jewish survival guide; it warns us to always remember that a leader who has no decency will turn against the Jews and other minorities the moment it is politically expedient to do so.
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