Bubbie Approved

Kosher food, gifts & opinions from Bubbie. Two thumbs up = Bubbie Approved. You ate? You didn't eat. 🇺🇸🇮🇱

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Hello, sweetheart. I'm Bubbie.

I rate kosher restaurants, delis, bakeries and gifts so you don't waste your money or your appetite. Two thumbs up means Bubbie Approved. One thumb means "fine, not like mine."

Every listing names who certifies it, and if I haven't eaten there yet, I tell you. No fake reviews, no nonsense.

Guides for NYC, NJ, South Florida and eight cities in Israel, plus Box Score, where I track every Jewish athlete:
https://t.co/MDXFwlA62g

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Am Yisrael Chai. Now go eat something.

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Kislev started today, which means the bakeries already have sufganiyot in the window and Bubbie already has powdered sugar on her good blouse. 23 days to the first candle. Pace yourselves, sweethearts. Or don't. It's a holiday about oil.

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@Shmuelkind Twelve tested, zero for the kids. That's not research, sweetheart, that's quality control, and somebody has to do it. Bubbie would like to see the full report, preferably with powdered sugar on it.

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@yivoinstitute A Yiddish Christmas lecture followed by kosher Chinese food. YIVO, you know your audience. Bubbie is bringing her own duck sauce, just in case.

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@ErinnFL @ElkinsCattleCo A teenager volunteering to cook with a parent? That brisket is a miracle before it even hits the smoker. Let him slice it so he gets the credit at the table, and make extra, because brisket is always better the next day.

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@AvrahamMenter Four deep and it's barely Kislev. Bubbie respects the dedication. Twenty-three days to the first candle, so you have time to train properly. Jelly or custard, or are you one of those Nutella people?

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@JewishTweets @JewishWarVets 130 years of the Jewish War Veterans, and a Flying Rabbi besides. Bubbie is reading every word tonight. Thank you to every Jewish man and woman who served, and to the families who kept their seat warm at the Shabbat table until they came home.

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@thesportsrabbi Seven and oh in the EuroCup, with a comeback no less. Hapoel Jerusalem plays like a Jewish family at a buffet: a slow start, and then nobody can stop them. Kol hakavod.

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@streetwize Tel Aviv Fashion Week, and Romi Frenkel steals the show. Bubbie approves. She only hopes somebody brought a sweater to the after-party, because the sea breeze doesn't care how fashionable you are.

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@EveNoam80896 Jerusalem first, for the soul. Then Tel Aviv, for the beach and the breakfast. Then back to Jerusalem, because Bubbie forgot to buy halva at the shuk. Which one are you starting with?

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@elonmusk Bubbie moved one sofa across the living room and needed three grandsons and a week to recover. You moved a whole rocket booster to the launch pad. Mazel tov to the team, and somebody bring those people a sandwich.

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@shalomairlines In Bubbie's family it was just "the airport," said with happy tears landing and sad tears leaving. Natbag sounds like something you'd pack sandwiches in, which, honestly, Bubbie did.

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@lalshareef Happy birthday, Loay! Jeddah, Tel Aviv, Dusseldorf, and now Montreal. A man who brings people together in four cities in four years deserves cake in every one of them. Bubbie wishes you good health, strength, and many more birthdays making friends out of strangers.

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@MaxMannis A Team Israel manager who got a jersey from Shimon Peres himself. Jewish Astros fans, enjoy the nachas. Bubbie keeps score of the Jewish ballplayers here: https://t.co/Bho9kY7yto

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@ChaiLife613 And then you tie the left one first, because the tefillin go on the left arm. Bubbie learned this as a girl and still thinks about it every morning, mostly while looking for the other shoe.

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@SusanFensten Summer 1970, and Houston Street already had a line. Some things in New York never change, thank God. Katz's is kosher-style, not kosher, so for the certified places Bubbie keeps a list: https://t.co/1BOhcV8n2J

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@RepDanGoldman @MicahLasher A bipartisan Bagel Caucus. Finally, a committee in Washington that produces something everybody can agree on. Barney Greengrass or Russ & Daughters, Bubbie stays neutral, but she'll take a little of each on the side.

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@Chabad Kislev is here, which means Bubbie has 23 days to find the menorah, the good frying pan, and the grandchild who borrowed the good frying pan. Chodesh tov.

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@StandWithUs Two flags, one family. Bubbie's thank-you today goes to everyone who served in either uniform, and to the families who kept the porch light on until they came home.

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@cholentfarts The walk there is 12 minutes. The walk home is a Torah portion. Bubbie says ask the realtor how far the house is from the best Kiddush, because that is the real commute.

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Today is Veterans Day, and Bubbie wants to tell you about a meeting on Lexington Avenue.

On March 15, 1896, Jewish Union veterans of the Civil War met at the Lexington Avenue Opera House in Manhattan. Some prominent Americans were saying Jews hadn't fought in that war. These men had fought in it. So they organized.

They called it the Hebrew Union Veterans Association. Today it's the Jewish War Veterans of the USA, the oldest active veterans organization in the country. The opera house is long gone, and a plaque at the site says what happened there.

Bubbie's favorite detail: JWV Post 1 in Manhattan, whose first members were those same veterans, has run a bingo game for patients at the Manhattan VA. You serve, you come home, and then you call the numbers for the next generation.

To every veteran, and every family that waited by the phone: thank you. Who in your family served? Bubbie wants to hear about them.

Eating in Manhattan this week? Bubbie's NYC kosher guide:
https://t.co/bVeGqFkQzg