Janet Kisri, 75 years old from Modiin, decided to set yet another world record and made the largest potato latke ever.
Kisri says she used her grandmother's recipe (from Poland). Adjusting it for the larger than normal portion required her to use 87kg of potatoes, 60 eggs, 17kg of flour, plus salt and pepper. It has a diameter of 1.60 meters and took 6 hours to prepare
I want to know how they had a frying pan large enough for this. and then how they flipped it.
Kisri shared her latke with the other people in the apartment complex she lives in, as they assisted in the project along with soldiers stationed nearby. 280 people partook in the consumption of this latke.
She does not tell us if they ate it with apple sauce or sour cream...
What a great story from a couple of yeshiva high school kids in Chicago (well, Skokie, actually)Wonderful and amazing kiddush hashem!
Excerpt from CBS:
What would you do if a lot of money – actual American legal tender – fell right at your feet?
A couple of high schoolers in Skokie recently stumbled upon some cold, hard cash – fresh off an armored truck. CBS 2’s Steven Graves set out to meet those honest students, who turned in the money.
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For a day in Skokie – it was like money grew on trees and came down like fall leaves.
“It was so windy – literally, money was floating in the air!” said Zev Goldstein.
Goldstein and his friends were walking from breakfast Thursday morning outside Fasman Yeshiva High School, at 7135 Carpenter Rd. in Skokie, when more green than the grass started appearing.
“There’s tons of money – hundreds of 20s just lying on the ground in this area that floated over the bushes.”
“I was like, whose is this? Where is this coming from?” added Coby Kamish.
Kamish figured something was off. He tried to give the cash to a man in the distance who was rushing to pick it up.
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It turned out that man was guy was pocketing the money.
“And then we look across the street and we see the armored truck,” Kamish said.
Across Touhy Avenue in the Village Crossing shopping center, there is a Bank of America ATM – where the bank says a third-party vendor somehow let money get out of the armored truck.
“Because of how windy it was, it was futile,” Goldstein said. “We just gave up.”
He said the students did recover an estimated $790, which is now in the hands of police.
“I thought the right thing was to give it back to the p[people that actually, it’s their money,” Kamish said.
But there was a fleeting feeling that these young men won’t soon forget.
“This is the best day of my life, initially,” Goldstein said. “Yeah, I wish it could happen a second time.”
A prominent Palestinian human rights activist recently filed a complaint in New York state, charging that a Ben & Jerry’s boycott in the West Bank and occupied territories is contributing to “more hatred” in the strife-prone region.
Bassem Eid, 63, filed a complaint with New York state’s Division of Human Rights last month against Conopco Inc., the US division of Unilever that owns the popular ice cream brand.
Eid, a longtime activist who has been critical of abuses by both Israeli armed forces and the Palestinian Authority in the past, claimed the restriction on sales of ice cream in Israeli-occupied territories is “counterproductive to peace and creates only more hatred, enmity and polarization,” according to the complaint.
An award-winning human rights activist who was born in East Jerusalem and grew up in a United Nations-run refugee camp, Eid said the boycott will have an adverse effect on the people it is trying to help.
“I, as a Palestinian, as well as many of my friends, family and other Palestinians, are regular shoppers at Gush Etzion commercial center … where we also frequent to eat ice cream,” said Eid in the complaint. Eid is a resident of Jericho in the West Bank.
“This shopping area is the true realization of coexistence, as both Jews and Muslims from both Israel and the Palestinian-controlled territories … work and shop here,” he said.
Eid likened the boycott to the controversial Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which many Jews have criticized as anti-Semitic. The complaint was filed under New York state’s Lisa Law that prevents New York businesses from engaging in anti-Israel boycott activity, said David Abrams, the New York-based attorney who filed the complaint on Eid’s behalf.
A spokesman for Ben & Jerry’s refused comment, and referred a reporter to a page on the company’s website where it addresses the boycott. “Speaking and acting on our values is neither anti-Israel nor anti-Semitic,” the website says."speaking and acting on our values is neither anti-Israel nor anti-Semitic".
