Sephardic and Ashkenazis Recipes

The heterogeneous nature of culture in Israel is also manifested in Israeli cuisine,a diverse combination of local ingredients and dishes, with immigrants dishes from around the world. Israeli cuisine is a mixture of various Jewish styles of cuisine including: Mizrahi, Sephardic,Yemeni,and Ashkenazi.
Morrocan Fish

  Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
• 2 red bell pepper, seeded and sliced into strips
• 1 large carrot, thinly sliced
• 3 tomatoes, chopped
• 4 olives, chopped
• 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
• 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped
• 3 tablespoons paprika
• 4 tablespoons ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 2 tablespoons chicken bouillon granules
• Salt to taste
• 5 pounds tilapia fillets

Directions

1. Heat a large skillet on medium-high heat. Add the oil, then cook and stir the onion and garlic, until slightly tender. Add the bell peppers, carrots, tomatoes, olives, and garbanzo beans and continue to cook until the peppers are slightly tender.
2. Sprinkle the parsley, paprika, cumin, cayenne, and chicken bouillon over the vegetables. Season with salt to taste. Stir to incorporate. Place the fish on top of the vegetables and add enough water to cover the vegetables. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and cook for 40 minutes.

Matzo Ball Soup

• 2 (10 ounce) packages matzo crackers
• 1/2 cup butter
• 6 eggs
• salt and pepper to taste
• 3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley                                   
• 2 onions, minced
• 5 ounces matzo meal
• 96 ounces chicken broth

Directions

1. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil.
2. Break matzo crackers into small pieces, and place in a large bowl. Add water to cover; allow to soak for a few minutes, until soft. Drain off excess water.
3. Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat and stir in drained matzos; stir until mixture is dry and slightly brown. Remove from heat, and mix in eggs, salt and pepper to taste, parsley, and onions.
4. Mix in just enough matzo meal to make mixture hold together. Roll one golf ball-size matzo ball. Place matzo ball in the boiling water to test the mixture. The ball must rise to the top of the water and not break apart. If it does not rise, then too much matzo meal was added. In this case, add another beaten egg to the mixture and try again. When desired consistency is reached, roll all of mixture into golf ball size spheres.
5. In a large saucepan, bring chicken broth to a slow boil over medium heat; add balls to broth. Serve soup as the balls rise to the top of the broth. 
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Nutritional Information

Oma's Fabulous Matzo Ball Soup

Servings Per Recipe: 10
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 448

• Total Fat: 13.9g
• Cholesterol: 151mg
• Sodium: 965mg
• Total Carbs: 63.5g
• Dietary Fiber: 0.8g
• Protein: 16.9g

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Dafina(especially for Saturday)

6 to 8 servings

• 8 oz. (about 1-1/4 cups) dried chickpeas
• 3 Tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 medium yellow onions, chopped (about 1 cup)
• 4 whole cloves garlic
• 1 pound beef or veal marrow bones
• 3 pounds beef brisket, short ribs, or chuck roast, cut into 4 pieces
• 12 to 16 medium potatoes (4 to 5 pounds), peeled, *or* 1/2 cup bulgur
• 5 to 6 pitted dates *or* 3 Tablespoons honey
• 1 Tablespoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric *or* 6 saffron threads, crumbled
• About 2 teaspoons salt
• Ground black pepper to taste
• 1 recipe kouclas (dumpling, 2 options below)
• 6 to 8 large eggs, in shell

1. Soak the chickpeas in water overnight. Drain.
2. Heat the oil in a 6- to 8-quart pot over medium eat. Add the onions and saute' until soft and translucent, 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Add, without mixing, the chickpeas, garlic, bones, meat, potatoes or bulgur, dates or honey, paprika, cumin, cinnamon, turmeric or saffron, salt, and pepper. Place the _kouclas_ in the center of the _dafina_ and arrange the eggs around it. Add enough water to cover.
4. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer, occasionally skimming the foam, for 1 hour.
5. Tightly cover the pot, place on a _blech_ (a thin sheet of metal placed over the stove top) over low heat or in a 225-degree oven, and cook overnight. Or transfer to a slow crock-type cooker set on low to cook overnight.
6. _Dafina_ is traditionally separated into different dishes before serving: the chickpeas and cooking liquid in one bowl, the eggs in a second, the potatoes in a third, the meat in a fourth, and the dumpling in a fifth.

Kouclas bi Khobz Moroccan Bread Dumpling

• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 1 large yellow onion, chopped (about 3/4 cup)
• 3 large eggs
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour
• Salt to taste

Combine all the ingredients.
Wrap loosely in a piece of cheesecloth or aluminum foil and tie securely.

Kouclas bi Ruz Moroccan Rice Dumpling

• 1 cup rice
• 4 ounces ground lamb or beef
• 1/2 cup ground walnuts
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
• 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground mace
• 1 teaspoon grated nutmeg
• About 1/2 teaspoon salt
• Ground black pepper to taste

Combine all of the ingredients. Wrap loosely in a piece of cheesecloth and tie securely.

Gefilte Fish

• 1 1/2 pounds salmon fillets
• 1 1/2 pounds red snapper fillets
• 1 pound black cod fillets
• 1 pound ling cod fillets
• 2 1/2 large onions
• 4 carrots
• 5 eggs
• 1 1/2 tablespoons white sugar
• 4 teaspoons salt
• 4 teaspoons ground white pepper
• 3/4 cup matzo meal
• 3/4 cup ice water
• 2 onions
• 2 carrots
• 1/2 teaspoon paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1/4 cup white sugar

Directions

1. Grind the fish, 2 1/2 onions and 4 carrots together. Place fish mixture in a wooden bowl. Using a hand chopper, add eggs one at a time. Add 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar, 4 teaspoons salt and white pepper and continue to chop until very well blended. Stir in the ice water a little at a time throughout this process. Add matzo meal and chop again. Check to see if mixture is thick enough to bind together to make an oval gefilte fish ball and if not add in more matzo meal.
2. Meanwhile, fill two large heavy stock pots half full of water . Into each pot slice one raw onion and one sliced carrot. Add fish skins, if desired. Sprinkle in paprika, salt, black pepper and two tablespoons of sugar. Bring to a boil over medium heat and let boil for 10 minutes.
3. With wet hands shape the fish balls and carefully drop into boiling stock. Cover slightly and cook over medium-low heat for 2 hours. When done, let fish sit in the pot for 10 minutes, then remove pieces carefully to containers and strain remaining stock over fish balls, just barely covering them. Chill and serve. They will now keep in the refrigerator for up to 6 days.

                

                                                  

Israeli Culture Ouline

Reading 6

Israeli Culture

Introduction

A)     Do you think that Israeli culture has recently shifted or not?

Some aspects of Israeli culture have been influenced by the incorporation of global cultural form such as:

1)      Literature

2)      Music

3)      Nevertheless, religious has remained the same

         

Body                                                                                   

A)     Literature

1)      “Dor- ba- aretz a new Jew in a new land  who will be different from the Jewish galut

2)      “New Jews” and “native-ness” (poetic voice of Hebrew identity as separate and different for tradition Jewish identity.

                                                                       

                                                                                                                                   

B)      Music

1) At the beginning, text from the Bible were adapted

2)   Shira- Eretz- Israel incorporation of Russian or Arabian style ballads, through the danceable rhythm.

2) Shira- ba – tzibur (singing in public or communal singing)

C) Religious                                                             

1) Orthodox Jews don’t allow conservative Jews to function in the state of Israel.

2) Orthodox Jews’ worldview is just legitimate base on Bible (torah) and the holly text.

                                                                      

Conclusion

Several aspects of Israeli culture have changed since the creation of Israel’s state such as literature and music. However, religious is the only one which has remained the same.

 

Bibliography

Eby, L. (1998, Nov 02). "Religious Fervor vs.Religious Tolerance.". Retrieved Jul 025, 2012, from SIRS Issues Researcher.: <http://www.sirs.com>

Goldman, D. o. (1997). "Collapsing Jewish Orthodoxies.". Tikkun, 14-22. Retrieved Jul /Aug 01, 2012, from SIRS Issues Researcher.: <http://www.sirs.com>

Lowe Art Museum

Luna Wahnon Benayoun

Lowe Art Museum

 

It was a sunny, Sunday, afternoon on July 1^st 2012 when our reading class went to the Lowe Art Museum; we had to meet at the entrance with our professor Mrs.Porges, who was waiting for us.

First of all a tour guide took us around the museum and the first sculpture we could see was majestic. It was three big men, who were standing on their head a little men were surrounded them. I thought that the meaning of this sculpture was that the world   is dominated by wrong people. Then, we got to different galleries:

Glass gallery: every object was made in glass. For example we saw a representation with the main symbols of the estate of Arizona such as skull, boots, crocodiles, feather, and a map inside glass. Another representation, which called my attention in this gallery was “The grant wonder, 2005, glass, paint and cooper.” This is a large format book composed of five pages on which photographer image and test has been sand blasted and then painted.
Tapun gallery: The theme of this gallery is bride objects, which were made with pottery, stone, jade and were connected to the death.

Beaux Art Gallery: in this gallery we can find two kind of painting styles: the first one is narrative, which describes stories about people, place, and event. Fact and fiction can be traced and the subject was derived literature, scripture mitology, history, or current event. The second part is face and form. Portrait of important individual, who represents social models. At the beginning, artists transfigured the human body, but in recent years the figure had again taken its identity.

“Adapting and Adopting”. Ways of changes as east encounters West gallery. The integration of foreign influence and its contribution to the development of modern and contemporary Japanese art is the underlying theme. Paintings of this gallery were made by the students of Miami University and are composed by two corridors. In the first one, we saw that the predominant colors were red and black. For me, red represent the east culture and black represents the feeling of mourning or grief. This painting reflects the struggle that individuals, who come from Asia to America, had to do in order to adopt another culture and leave behind their own roots. In the second corridor, at first we could appreciate painting with symbols of the Asia culture and at the end of this corridor there was a picture, were we could see Japanese imprisoned, his face had an expression of anger and he was looking at a female figure that was outside. For me, this picture is a projection of the conflict between leaving his own culture in order to improve his economic status, or staying in the hometown.

The last two galleries were amazing, both of them were the reflects of Japanese’s’ history.

Edo periods (introspection) this is a peace period of Japanese culture where we can see Japanese symbols such as writing, cloth, nature, and animals were traced.

 Meiji Periods (awakening) this is the end of period of peace, when Japan was invaded by United States. It is a period of transitions. Painting reflects the war through the fire, people adopted western clothes, the imperious was established, and a new era of industrialization started.

In the Museum Lowe Art, we could see the evolution of the paintings from one stage to another and the reflection of history of the nations though out them.

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Luna Wahnon Benayoun

EAP 1620

Reading 6

July 4, 2012

Judaism

Movie: Trails of world religions

Produced by: SWR and Deutsehe Wille Transted.

1) What are the values that are admired?

Six million Jews lived in United States. More Jews lived in the rest of the world than in Israel. The majority of them speak English or another language and most of them don’t speak Hebrew at all. Israel a small nation within different nations. Jews have a country but the majority don’t live there. Jews have been persecuted through the time. However I think the most admirable condition they have is that Israel has remained as a nation despite the adverse condition that they had to face.

2) How people interact with one another?

People interact with one another like a brotherhood. Some Jews are Orthodox another group are Reformists, and others are conservationists, but they have something in common, they share a common destiny. The base of this destiny is the interactions between three elements: people of Israel, land of Israel and the religious of Israel.

3) How is the culture similar or different from mine?

The culture of Israel is my culture. I am an Orthodox Jew. My way of thinking and conducting myself is in accordance with the Bible( Torah) which is Jews’ religious laws that regulate human behavior.

4) What did you learn about the culture from watching the movie?

I learned that the tolerance is the main element in the union between the people of Israel. Consequently, if all the people around the world are more tolerant with one another we will have a world full of peace.

5)      Would you like to visit the country? Explain your answer.

I would like to visit Israel because it is the land of my forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the nation of the Bible (Torah). Moreover, the land that G-D promised to Abraham. Therefore, Israel is joined to my roots, my history and my life.

Israel Culture

Israel, Israel, Israel ... land of my forefathers. Israel is a mixture of immigrant cultures, a cosmopolitan city, people with diverse cultural background come from different countries and bring with them their own way of life. Israel culture not only reflects Jewish history in the diaspora but also reflects religious roots .: Judaism is the official religion, but eighty percent of the population is Jewish, fifteen percent are Muslims, and four percent are Christian and Druze.  Jews believe in the Hebrew Bible or Torah. There are different communities such as orthodox, conservative, reform, and Reconstructionist congregations. Rabbis are the religious leaders of the Jewish community. They are ordinated in Jewish law. The main religious figures in the Muslim community are Muezzins, who are scholars of the Koran. Jews pray in synagogues and Muslims worship in mosques.
 Omar Mosques
Western Wall

Cousin: The variety of culture in Israel is also manifested in Israel´s cousin, which is the fusion of local ingredients with immigrant ingredients from around the world. Jews have to fallow dietary laws called Kashrut, which forbid the consumption of pork and shellfish, as well as the consumption of both meat and milk product at the same time. Some typical Israeli food:

Falafel
Ask folks overseas what Israeli food is all about and chances are the first thing to pop out of their mouths will be falafel. Falafel, the pita sandwich stuffed with fried chickpea-based croquettes, chopped salad, humus and tehina, remains the ultimate Israeli street food.

Humus
If you really want to eat like the natives, grab some pita bread and dip straight into a bowl of humus. That classic chickpea based spread has found its way onto the menus of restaurants as far away as Chicago and Sydney, and even beyond. But the origins of this healthy spread are right here in our own backyard. Humus is served in numerous variations in Israeli restaurants—the best is usually found in tiny dives, often in Arab neighborhoods and towns.
For the “complete” humus experience, order it with a dollop of “ful” (fava beans) and a hard boiled egg.





Shwarma
Want to try the Israeli meat lover’s street food? Then by all means, go for a shwarma. You’ll see these huge revolving skewers of meat (in Israel it’s usually turkey) on nearly every corner of our cities. If you’re really hungry ask for the meat wrapped in a “lafa,” otherwise go for a pita sandwich. And the shwarma tastes great when accompanyied in that pita with humus, tehina and chopped salad. For the most adventuresome, ask them to add a bit of “amba” – a mango chutney introduced to Israel by the Jews of Iraq.