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In creating exhibitions and events at the Both of you poo-poo heads shirt Also,I will get this culinary institute in Tel Aviv, and producing stories and content for the website and journal, Shefi and her team have prioritized Arab voices, too. In their first year, they reached out to every Arab researcher and chef they knew to ask them to collaborate, to teach them, and to share their knowledge. Still, not everyone has been on board with her vision. “Some people accept this invitation with enthusiasm, and others not,” Shefi says. In 2021, the Palestinian Arabic editor at the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, accused Shefi and the institute of “cultural and culinary appropriation,” writing that presenting Palestinian foods as Israeli cuisine reflects “the injustices of the occupation, discrimination, and cultural erasure of the Palestinians in Israel.”



“I totally respect and understand where people are coming from,” Shefi tells me. “I do.” She tries to convince potential collaborators as much as she can, “that what we’re trying to create is about providing space and about honoring truly, with all honesty, your culture, your influence, your history. And yes, sometimes it brings difficult conversations. It’s not all pink, not at all. But that’s part of the Both of you poo-poo heads shirt Also,I will get this job,” she says. “I mean, I can’t tell you that we’re going to fix [everything],” Shefi continues. “But I do feel like that’s the place of art and film and food. It’s people to people. So just to be more knowledgeable about people who live next to you. It’s really about that.” A month after that conversation, the Jewish Food Society co-hosted a Passover Seder with the designer Susan Alexandra in lower Manhattan. More than double the number of expected guests arrived, and extra tables and place settings were hastily crammed into corners to accommodate the eager crowd. The rabbi, Samantha Frank, said that it was in the spirit of Passover to make room, so none would be turned away. She pointed out the orange on the Seder plate, in recognition of LGBTQ+ Jews and others who are marginalized in the Jewish community, and acknowledged: “It’s only within the last 10 years or so that women could even lead a Seder like this.”“This is very different from the Seder I had with my family last night,” Shefi told me. Her mother, father, and sister, all in town from Israel, had shared an intimate and thoughtful meal the night before, reflecting on the ongoing political conflict and injustice in their home country. Meanwhile, at our non-traditional celebration, we were served eggplant tachin: a Persian baked rice dish from Orly Elyashar that traces its history to the Hamedani Jewish community Elyashar grew up in, in Iran. As far as metaphors for Shefi’s project go, it’s a neat one: subtle, a little subversive, and straight from the heart.


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