How did Kosher come to the USA? Join us on this episode as we speak with American Food Historian, Roger Horowitz.

Roger is a historian of American business, technology, and labor and an expert on the nation’s food. He currently serves as director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library and teaches history at the University of Delaware. He is the author or editor of seven books, most recently Kosher USA: How Coke became kosher and other tales of modern food, which prizes from the Jewish Book Council and American Historical Association. Additionally, he is a trustee of the Delaware Jewish Historical Society and treasurer of the Business History Conference.

Roger and I get really comfortable with (Industrial) Kashrus: How it started, some of its early tensions, and what the importance of incorporating Kashrus into mainstream food production tells us about American Orthodoxy. We also discuss Roger's background and what made this book so personal. Its a great listen for America 250; a mix of micro and macro of a big piece of the Jewish story in the United States.

Roger's Website: http://www.rogerhorowitz.com/

You can get his book, Kosher USA, here: https://www.amazon.com/Kosher-USA-Traditions-Perspectives-Culinary/dp/0231158327

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Ever wonder how the Jewish Link got its start? Join us on this episode as we speak with its publisher, Moshe Kinderlehrer.

Moshe is the publisher and co-founder of the Jewish Link of New Jersey – Expanded Edition, and the Jewish Link Media Group. After nearly two decades in the nonprofit and fundraising field, he launched his first paper in 2013, the bi-weekly Jewish Link of Bergen County. With G-d's help, it was an immediate success and from this first paper, which soon became a weekly and was renamed the Jewish Link of New Jersey in 2014, he expanded his media and print efforts by founding the Jewish Link of the Bronx, Westchester and CT in 2015. He has helped launch papers in Rockland County (Monsey Mevaser), the Philadelphia area (Philly Jewish Link), and the DC/Maryland area (Kol HaBirah). He is also affiliated with the Queens Jewish Link and Bukharian Jewish Link, and is working on other media and print-related businesses as well.

Prior to entering the Jewish media world, Moshe enjoyed an extensive career in the nonprofit and fundraising arena with his last job serving as a Director of Institutional Advancement at Yeshiva University with responsibility for the Azrieli Graduate School of Education, the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, and the YU High Schools. Before YU, he served in senior fundraising roles at American Friends of Leket Israel, Friends of Jerusalem College of Technology, OHEL, Gesher, as an independent nonprofit consultant, and as a consultant for NYC-based nonprofit consulting firm Perry Davis Associates. Moshe is an ordained Orthodox rabbi and served as the assistant rabbi at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue from 1998-2000

We discuss all things Jewish Link; why it got started, why Moshe believed in it, and how it has grown over time. Learn what it really takes to publish a brand new newspaper, and why it is not for the faint of heart. At the end of all that, Moshe blindly ranks some of his favorite sections of the Jewish Link

The Jewish Link's online presence: https://jewishlink.news/

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On the second episode of Frum But Relatable, we speak with Eli Lebowicz.

Eli is a world-class comedian, performing standup at Jewish communities all over the world. He is also the co creator of JSketch videos, a series of Jewish comedy sketches. Perhaps most impressively, he used to work at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Eli and I discuss comedy: The fun, the serious (yes, there is a serious side to comedy), and what, ideally, comedy is supposed to be and accomplish. We talk about how he got started, crack some jokes of own, and get into a heated conversation about the definition of "Yeshiva League."

Find Eli here: https://www.elicomedy.com/

Watch JSketch here: https://www.youtube.com/@jsketch613

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