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Join us for a celebration of Jewish Food Society’s newly released cookbook The Jewish Holiday Table! Author and Jewish Food Society founder Naama Shefi, will talk with Gabby Deutch, Senior National Correspondent at Jewish Insider, about diverse Jewish holiday culinary traditions, food as an expression of Jewish identity and why celebrations around the table are more important now than ever. The talk will be followed by a vibrant tasting of brunchy global Jewish dishes inspired by the cookbook.

About the book: Collected by the Jewish Food Society, an organization dedicated to preserving Jewish cuisine around the world, the 135 recipes and accompanying stories in The Jewish Holiday Table are a dazzling expression of all the ways we celebrate through what we bring to the table.

Discover menus for a Persian Rosh Hashanah feast, a Ukrainian-Mexican Seder, an Iraqi spread for Purim. And a memorable Hanukkah tale of grandmothers competing in a doughnut duel, with one’s Moroccan sfenj recipe challenging the other’s Egyptian zalabia. Reflecting three thousand years of love and loss, culture and change, each dish captures the soul of what’s served in a Jewish home on a Jewish holiday.

Each ticket includes brunchy bites and each order includes a copy of The Jewish Holiday Table.

Naama Shefi is a kibbutznik and New Yorker whose work sits at the intersection of food, culture, community building, and art. In 2017, she founded the Jewish Food Society, a nonprofit organization, which preserves and celebrates Jewish culinary heritage through a digital recipe archive and dynamic events. In the summer of 2021, she launched Asif: Culinary Institute of Israel, a center in Tel Aviv dedicated to exploring the diverse and creative food culture of Israel. She lives on the Lower East Side with her husband, Ilan, and their daughter, Ella.

Gabby Deutch is the Senior National Correspondent at Jewish Insider, where she covers politics, foreign policy, and a diverse array of stories across the Jewish world. Her reporting since October 7 has focused on rising antisemitism at American institutions and the Biden administration's response to the Hamas attacks and the war in Gaza. Her work has been published in the Atlantic, Politico Magazine, Tablet, and the Washington Post. Gabby lives in Cambridge.