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This years Israeli arms exhibition, ISDEF2022, hosted, once again, delegations from various countries that are infamous for their severe human rights violation record. They came to examine a wide range of weaponry and technologies, some used extensively on the Palestinian population, amidst the war raging in Europe. This industry is an inseparable part of Israels position as a settler-colonial militaristic regime, with the investment of about 130 countries and the active support of the US and the EU. As long as Israels economic base is its military and security industry, continuing the occupation in Palestine, as well as arming conflicts, borders, and oppressive regimes, will remain in Israels interest.

Last month, the Annual Israeli Arms and Security Export Exhibition (ISDEF2022) was held in Tel Aviv. Israeli security companies such as Elbit, Masada, Anyvision, IWI, Maspenot and others, participated in the exhibition showcasing military equipment, weaponry, as well as cyber and policing technologies. Senior members of the security industry attended, including former Chief of Staff, Moshe Bogie Yaalon, former head of the Israel Police, Roni Alsheikh, current head of the Home Front Command, General Ori Gordin, former head of Israel National Cyber Directorate, Buky Carmeli and founder of Avnon Group, Tomer Avnon.

The ISDEF2022 was an international festival of Israels arms exports, attended by official delegations from around the globe, such as from Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, the Philippines, Greece, Morocco, Kosovo, Bosnia, Bahrain, Liberia, Nigeria, South Korea, European and North American countries and more. This list of countries includes those who have been, according to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reports, consistently committing human rights violations. A delegation from Belarus, which is currently taking part in the war against Ukraine, also attended.

Israel is the 8th largest arms exporter in the world, but per its population size, takes the first place; it has extensive and longstanding military relations with some 130 countries that are invested in Israels military industry by ways of import, export, training and other means, for the past decades. Some of these countries, such as Myanmar and South Sudan, are under arms embargo by a number of western countries, due to severe human rights violations and crimes against humanity that they are committing. Since Israels Arms Export Laws do not place any limitations on sales in the event of human rights violations, Israeli companies can legally export weapons and cyber technologies to any such countries.

But this is no news. Israel has in the past sold arms to the Apartheid regime in South Africa, the military Junta in Argentina and to Rwanda, when its regime was committing genocide against the Tutsi minority. With a war raging in Europe that has killed hundreds of civilians and led to the plight of millions of Ukrainian refugees, Israel once again chooses to invest its resources and promote its international standing by displaying destructive weapons and technologies.

It is not merely a coincidence. Israels far-right Minister of Interior, Ayelet Shaked, recently stated in a cabinet meeting that the war in Europe will make countries realize they need well-equipped armies, and thus expressed interest in utilizing the crisis in Europe for Israeli profit. Shakeds statement reflects a longstanding Israeli policy that goes hand in hand with deporting or refusing those who have sought refuge in Israel, deporting or refusing entry from the very wars it helped arm. In the Israeli profit equation, missiles are more important than refugees.

After all, in recent years, a considerable amount of Israels arms export has been directed toward militarizing state borders and targeting refugees and immigrants around the world. An example of this is Israels cooperation with the EU in the fields of cyber-security, surveillance and facial-recognition technologies, which are undergoing major development on the global scale, and are being utilized by more and more police forces worldwide.

From a historic perspective, Israel was established by means of expelling the native Palestinian population, and has since always maintained some form of military regime over other parts of the Palestinian population under its control. Thus, normalizing its arms export as the backbone of its economy, and the extensive web of ties the arms industry has to security forces, politics, the high-tech industry and academia in Israel seem like a natural evolution. Militarizing physical borders, as well as the political and civil spheres as well as criminalizing refugees these expressions of the military complex are complementary with the settler-colonial psyche, that constantly seeks to expand as well to create racial segregation from, and subjugation of, the indigenous population.

Given the reality in which merely existing as Palestinian serves as grounds for criminalization and being accused of terrorism using the Palestinian population, particularly in the Gaza strip, as guinea pigs for state-of-the-art weaponry, is inevitable, and further advances the militarization of Israeli police forces, with Palestinian citizens of Israel serving as the link between internal crime and the outside enemy.

Israels bombardments of the Gaza strip in the past decade, especially in summer 2014, have greatly contributed to Israels arm deals. For example, only two weeks after the last major attack on Gaza in May of 2021, Israeli Aerospace Industry (IAI) closed a $200 million drones deal with an Asian country. Cyber and surveillance technologies, such as facial recognition, cell phone hacking, wiretapping etc., were also developed in Palestine as part of Israels surveillance and control of the Palestinian population.

This state of affairs serves two parallel goals: Preserving the subjugation of Palestinians on the one hand while profiting from the advantage of having battle-tested weapons, on the other. In 2020 alone, a third of the global cybersecurity expenditure was invested in Israeli-owned cyber companies, many of which are run by former intelligence officers and military commanders in the IDF. That same year, the Israeli arms industry made approximately 8 billion dollars in revenue 4 times more than it did in the early 2000s.

As long as Israels economy continues to rely on the military industry, its interest to preserve the occupation in Palestine and support armed conflicts globally will prevail, inevitably compromising the safety and security of its own citizens it claims to protect. Twenty-five percent of Israels state budget is allocated to security, not including the nuclear budget, which alone receives billions of dollars. The intersection of colonialism, militarism and global capitalism is detrimental to the weakest of communities in Israel-Palestine, and provides a slippery slope toward ever-expanding state-sanctioned violence. Groups situated lowest in the socio-economic hierarchy, such as Ethiopian, Mizrahi and former Soviet-Union Jews and of course Palestinian citizens of Israel, will be the first to suffer the consequences.

The veil of silence and ambiguity draped over Israels military industries, including its nuclear power, is a longstanding tradition that has been normalized and widely accepted. This silence allows the Israeli arms industry to continue operating with no supervision and in a complete lack of transparency, enabling Israels occupation of Palestine in exchange for military, security and nuclear agreements, backed by the US and EU. All of the above provide an irrefutable foundation to the corrupt nature of the ties between Israel and other oppressive regimes.

As Jewish Israelis, we believe that such critique of the Israeli regime is crucial in order to enable Israelis to strive toward a decolonized presence in the region, that is not based on superiority and violent expansion but rather a democratic state for all its citizens. Our demand that Israel (and other states) limit their investments in the military industry and allocate budget to health, welfare, marginalized communities and true safety and justice for all is part and parcel of resisting the militarized settler-colonial paradigm. The international community must hold Israel accountable for its human rights violations, both as an occupier and as a dominant arms exporter.

Keren Assaf and Jonathan HempelKeren Assaf and Jonathan Hempel are anti-militarism activists, directors of a Database of Israels Military and Security Export.

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Pakistani provocateur and leader of a Pakistani community organisation, Javed Aslam, was seen with the flag of Palestine on the way to Labour Day rallies in the centre of Athens.

Citing a social media user, Directus wrote: Now, what can Palestine, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Israel have to do with May Day? Only New Democracy knows who granted him asylum.

The President of Pakistan Community of Greece Unity often hobnobs with KEERFA (United Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat, Greece) and smaller Greek leftist oriented groups.

Although being granted asylum when SYRIZA were in power, his status was updated by the current New Democracy government.

This is despite the fact that he describes Greek as being racist, and even more concerningly, being wanted by INTERPOL for a 2005 case involvinghuman smuggling.

He also advises illegal immigrants how to avoid arrest and deportation, and especially on how to manipulate human rights clause to get asylum.

It is recalled that on October 9, Javed manipulated the Pakistani community into hijacking a leftist rally, warning his compatriots that if they do not join the rally, then the Greek government would deport more than 100 Pakistanis everyday.

He was using the anti-fascist rally on October 9 2021 as the occasion to gather illegal Pakistanis against Greek government by instigating the fear of deportations and to garner more support for SYRIZA.

Meanwhile, metro trains ground to a halt and ships were docked in ports as thousands of workers joined May Day rallies in the Greek capital to protest against soaring energy and food prices.

Gas and power bills have surged, with price rises exacerbated by sanctions against Russia following its February 24 invasion of Ukraine, taking inflation in Greece to multi-year highs.

Police estimate that some 10,000 people marched in central Athens and gathered outside the Greek parliament over the cost of living that they say is becoming unaffordable.

It is very tough, and every day it gets tougher for workers. We will fight it, because the working class cannot survive any more, said Katerina Dekaristou, a teacher, standing outside the parliament.

Pantelis Iordanou, an car body painter, said.: Everything has risen. Electricity has risen, gas has risen, necessities have risen. Its chaotic.

Javed AslamWe cant get paid fast enough to pay something else. We are trying with every means to cut out what is [not] necessary to pay these things, he added.

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The Palestine .. the central issue of the nation Conference, organized during the period 24-27 Ramadan month by the of National Salvation Government with local and Arab participation and international, was concluded Thursday in the capital, Sanaa.

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Palestine .. the central issue of the nation Conference, organized during the period 24-27 Ramadan month by the of National Salvation Government with local and Arab participation and international, was concluded Thursday in the capital, Sanaa.

In the conclusion, member of the Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Saleh Al-Nuaimi, referred to the connotations that the conference carried in strengthening stability and steadfastness, and unifying and integrating the roles of the resistance axes to confront the Zionist enemy and the puppet normalization states.

He explained that the Zionist entity had not persist in its crimes against the Palestinian people and the occupation of its lands except after most of the normalizing countries played the role of the Zionists in their suspicious actions.

Al-Nuaimi called on the peoples of the Arab and Islamic world to sense responsibility, and to hold conferences and symposia to awaken enthusiasm and call for vigilance and liberation from colonial domination in the region.

In turn, the Prime Minister, Dr. Abdulaziz Saleh bin Habtoor, praised the Palestinian revolution, its greatness, its martyrs, its wounded, and the size of the sacrifices given by its people over a period of more than a hundred years.

He considered the size of participation in the conference and the large attendance at its closing session as evidence of everyones interest in the issue of Palestine, the central issue of the nation.

The Prime Minister indicated that there are Arab regimes protected from the Zionist colonial capitalist West, which were designed and functionally formed in order to destroy the Palestinian cause.

He went on to say: These regimes must realize that the real liberation revolutions in our region, including Yemen, are volcanoes that cannot be extinguished or brought down, because they depend on a broad, solid and conscious popular will.

At the conclusion of his speech, Dr. bin Habtoor expressed his thanks to the main organizers of the conference related to the central issue of the nation, which achieved scientific, academic and political success.

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A logo at the Toronto Police Services headquarters, in Toronto, Friday, Aug. 9, 2019.Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press

Toronto police say they will be increasing their presence in the downtown core this weekend in anticipation of more than a dozen protests.

Police Chief James Ramer says he has heard concerns about possible hate speech and confrontation between participants of an Al-Quds Day protest which is planned for Saturday afternoon and those who are opposed to the event.

Al-Quds Day is a yearly demonstration to express support for Palestinians and oppose Israel.

Ramer says officers from the police hate crime unit will be on the ground to gather evidence to investigate any suspected hate crimes, hate speech or signage.

He says the police will add more cameras and deploy officers who speak different languages to record what is being said amongst the crowds during the protests.

Ramer says the force supports peaceful demonstration but will not tolerate intimidation, harassment or hate motivated behaviour aimed at specific communities.

He says the police will also not allow civil disobedience or violence for hateful behaviour that crosses the line into criminality and that anyone committing these actions should expect to be arrested and prosecuted.

Ramer says the police do not expect any of the demonstrations to be linked to the Rolling Thunder protests in Ottawa.

He says there will be static and rolling road closures downtown Toronto, but that they will not be similar to those put in place during the truckers convoy protests in the winter.

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The cover of Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe

Since 1963, most of Italys wines have become denominations, each one a name that is a legal term delimiting a wines place, appearance, and grape varieties, defining each as an origin based in large part on such ingredients. Fourteen years after the legislations start, on November 16 wine philosopher Luigi Veronellis appeals to Italian legislators resulted in a one-day seizure of bottled Coca Cola though the legal basis was that the brands bottles did not present an ingredients list, part of Veronellis official complaint was the lack of Erythroxylum coca and cola acuminata claimed in the products name, cast as a denomination and therefore a breach of article 5 of the presidential decree of May 19, 1958 number 719 which states that the drink must be produced with substances from the fruits or plants in the name. Louder and clearer in Veronellis accusation was the need to protect Italian food and drink. And so there is another ingredient to consider in those protected designations of origin: such names are a medley of raw materials, provenance, and in my reading of Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe, edited by historian Ilaria Porciani and published in 2021 by Routledge nationhood.

The book is announcedly transnational. The authors of this book do not share the framework of unreflective nationalism, Porciani sets out, thus we have chosen to avoid chapters focusing on individual countries. Mentions of what it means to make a food into a heritage, or for that matter what heritage itself is all about, cross European borders, too, into middle- and farther-east nations. Between that introduction (Food heritage and nationalism in Europe) and her conclusion (Careful with heritage, cowritten with medievalist and food scholar Massimo Montanari) are sandwiched 10 articles, a varieties of writers, on, fluidly, European food traditions. This collection acts as a series of comments on those three title nouns, whose placement is, naturally, also transtemporal. A food tradition, like recently yoked heritage (nationalism of the culinary kind, has been a true object of academic inquiry since only the past few years, Porciani notes) is not just something that is malleable and changing. Each is also a thing that exists because you are experiencing now, somewhere on its path through past and ongoing transformations, several of which are, if no less loved for it as in the case of the Italian Mulino Bianco brand, as good as staged. Preparations of voices from whats already happened mixed with instances of belonging at some time, food heritages arrive on plates so often made more of contemporary needs and longing than they equip today with some authentic materials. Plates which sidestep any tools, assumptions, and ingredients no longer available, or touchable, or known. Such heritage is also the sound of undifferentiated voices, whose enforced inclusion in a predominantly nationalistic model obscures the many cultural, class or gender differences involved in feeding rituals and habits, not to mention division and conflict within the local community itself. As sites of always changing cooking and eating habits, I imagine such communities can be a way out of the authentic: curious visitors should respect, wonder, listen humbly which includes confusion; do not codify; remember this is now.

For the connections between food and place to be seen as natural, writes Laura Di Fiore in chapter two (Heritage and food history: a critical assessment), first, the foods need to be claimed as exclusive in origin to a particular place and local culinary tradition, and second, the claim needs to be upheld by an official institute. UNESCO, the part of the United Nations concerned with recognizing anthropological culture and a driver of tourism, is the most global incarnation, but when it introduced its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 1972, food was not included in such heritagization (a process to adapt use of culture heritage to promote images favorable for the political management, defines Per ke Nilsson in the Athens Journal of Tourism. It is a final stage of a social process, where cultural heritage is used in order to have wished political impact on the visitors.) of places. The first edible UNESCO designations came in 2010, and included Mexican cooking. Winning its nomination as a native, traditional and feminine, Di Fiore fills in, stressing its deep roots with no reference to its cosmopolitan overtones, that cuisine was turned to the exclusive province of male chefs, a transnational class of professionals trained in the French tradition. The accent was also placed on global ingredients and techniques, tailored to the taste buds of cosmopolitan consumers. But UNESCOs recognition of food and heritage is just as changeful in time, meant to be a recording of existence, of that now, and not of authenticity. As [ICH] stated in 2011 and 2012, Di Fiore makes clear, UNESCO does not intend to fix intangible cultural heritage in some frozen, idealized form, since it is not concerned with the question of how original or authentic an element is or what its ideal form should be, rather what matters is how an element figures in the lives of its practitioners today. The image, Montanari can be read as elaborating in chapter seven (A taste for diversity) of plain and simple values of the past has been revived, and a fat price charged for them.

Nations are of course also highly intentional lines, their foods wildly pre- and post borders. Old as well as recent hostilities between countries have often fueled food wars, making multinational UNESCO nominations difficult. Kimchi, an application with descriptions of these fermentations as an essential part of the Korean way of life, conflicted with Indonesian and Malaysian claims to the same. Turkish, Iranian, Greek, and Armenian meat and barley stew kekek was added to the UNESCO list in 2011 as food ceremony of the former. In 2014 western Asia flatbread lavash was added as Armenian. There is a Greek and Romanian conflict over sarma or feta cheese; a contested nomination of the chewy lokoumi sweets of Greek Cypriots, Cypriots, and Turks. (These things are important for us because our cities need to become a brand, said the governor of one Turkish city upon another strain of UNESCO recognition in 2019.) Falafel contested between Palestine and Israel; hummus among Israelis, Palestinians, and Lebanese; a 2017 dispute between Israeli and Palestinians around zatar, the plant, also called hyssop on a list of 257 protected species signed into law in 1977, and not the mix to which are added in varying permutations sesame and herbs akin to thyme: Palestinians wish to repeat ancient rituals and get together to gather it, while Israeli authorities are trying to protect this herb, probably mentioned in the Bible and in danger of extinction. The outcry over Virgin Atlantic Airlines couscous dish presented as Palestinian salad which led to a generic name along with the companys reply that Maftoul is Palestinian, just like pasties are Cornish and pt de foi gras is French. Here, Porciani notes, precisely [because] this dish has a distinct pre-national origin in Jewish cuisine, [is] a clear example of how a dish may become nationalized when its long diaspora history, characterized by mediation and hybridism, is neglected. In opposite movements, she reminds us that chicken tikka masala is of course English; and Japanese tempura a re-do of Portuguese Catholic-minded fried-green-beans peixinhos da horta. The economic worries from the side of the Venetos delicate sparkling Prosecco wines in Italy over Dalmatias sweet and deeply colored Prosek in Croatia come to my mind as well. But the question is not just economic: identity plays a by no means secondary part, writes Di Fiore. In a sign of co-national hopefulness, 2016 saw the ICH inclusion of Flatbread making and sharing culture: Lavash, Katyrma, Jupka, Yufka, at the joint request of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, the very countries of western Asia that had contested the nomination for lavash bread going to Armenia. Concurrently, the idea of local differences is suspect, a myth that in Europe obscures a medieval mission to universalize dishes, which Montanari highlights in this book as well. I suggest, writes Porciani, that we read the construction of a gastronomic identity as a policy similar to the creation of museums and centres for history studies.

In the 19th century, when heritage was inextricably connected to nation-making, food entered powerfully into both the discourse and the practice of the nation, Porciani writes of the trend throughout Europe, creating national identities. Foods roles in top-down nation-building continued into the European 20th century, above all with those protected designation of origin laws that moved steadily toward naming and protecting, as industrialization and global fast-foods formed new, unsubstantial and unworldly, landscapes drawn into existing or imagined geopolitical and mental boundaries, populated by official languages and, unofficial, dialects, filled with national characters. Because we are losing contact with things and practices which used to be alive and familiar, we turn them into heritage, she writes. And so, I see, the 21st century is turning to an interesting blend. Well-read, connected, tech-rich producers are reclaiming what they can find of older ways and insights when it comes to growing and making food. What they do is playing out across what is now a global landscape of farms, restaurants, and markets wherein real and regional ingredients, dishes, habits. Largely deterritorialized and marked by a new irrelevance of space, we are drawn to imagine food in terms of authenticity, tradition, and terroir, Porciani writes of all the foods that now come to us just as much histories and overlaps, vertical as well as horizontal movements, often presented without their turning points. After the defeat of the double monarchy in 1866, she notes, Hungarians nationalized goulasch, a southern speciality until then ignored and considered vulgar.

The cover of Acquired Tastes: Stories About the Origins of Modern Foods

With a different kind of origin, the 19th into 20th century is the focus of Acquired Tastes: Stories About the Origins of Modern Foods, edited by Benjamin R. Cohen, Michael S. Kideckel, and Anna Zeide and published in 2021 by MIT Press. For one thing, it is focused on the United States with outside forays such as London through beef extracts and Paris via American Josephine Baker, and while the nation-making subtext will be clear to anyone so tuned, it is never overtly analyzed. This book instead is a tracing of the U.S.s penchant for industrial foods back to the late 19th century. An eater sits down to a morning meal nearly a century ago, sets off the introduction in a near undifferentiated voice and noting no time or place. She spreads her slice of processed white bread toast with a thick layer of strawberry jam, sweetened with corn syrup. Her bowl of Shredded Wheat comes from a box emblazoned with the natural majesty of Niagara falls. An imported tropical banana lies alongside the bowl. The reader nevertheless is meant to know exactly where they are and with whom, at table inside a nation that tried to define itself from the top down, over the heads of its many very different voices, by foods it manufactured in its imagined image. The books 14 chapters stretch into the 1930s British white bread, the U.S.s push into the Philippines after the 1902 war through a million deaths then campaigns belittling what and how surviving people ate where they stop. Each is a theme of Modern food: as status, David Fouser writes chapter two; as globalized, Jeffrey M. Pilcher writes on the European beer styles that arose in the 19th century; as uprising, as suspicious, as racialized performance, as substitute food, as not your pet. Modern food, notes chapter five, is Burkina Faso green beans on Paris shelves in February, California strawberries in Toronto in March . . . Georgia peaches in Boston in May, . . . is the roughly 2,000 miles . . . your meal has traveled to reach your plate . . . is distributed food. There is century-straddling cookbook writer Marion Harland heavily relying, after her initial disgust, on canned foods. There is the casting of some average consumer in the same period so that industrial foods might address common complaints of feeling tired, hurt, bored, and constipated, with promises of eating natural food, that among other things was not touched by human hands during its production, hands understood to be those of immigrants, cast as outsiders then, as now, a fear of newfound germs as well as a trendiness of cooking among those more wealthy: sourdough bread became famous. Herein, the process of heritage-making plain in Food Heritage is an assumed value, the invention of a nation from the most basic features, including what it should eat, and a belief in itself un-indebted to any place or time, or grown subsistence. But what is perhaps its most symbolic food, image of sameness (and U.S. presence) in all places, is a kind of navigation device through more local realities: Even Coca-Cola, symbol of the levelling of tastes, writes Montanari, does not taste the same everywhere.

A praise of differences and defence of cultural identity are not some harking back to the past, Montanari had noted in Food Heritage. They belong to the present and the future, coming from a recent conquest which is still in the process of consolidation, an observation closer to overlapping with Acquired Tastes focus on un-erasing the past. The modern foods both books are concerned with do work to tell us stories about origin stories. Perhaps it makes sense to locate the tales of both not in insubstantial pasts, but in imagined futures and as acknowledgments of now being not just a loss but also a certain gain. Otherwise, and -where, Montanari reminds us, in spite of heritages reliance on times gone by, it is vain to pine for the past a past, let us remember, where famine was often the leading lady.

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This summer, not only will traditional events return to University Heights, but there will be a new celebration. The Inaugural University Heights Juneteenth Celebration will take place from 1:30 to 8:30 p.m. June 19 at Walter Stinson Community Park on Fenwick Road.

Juneteenth is the holiday commemorating the end of slavery by marking the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free. Juneteenth has been recognized as a federal holiday after growing support nationwide for observing the day of reflection and celebration.

Performers will include the All City Choir, DJ Marcus Alan Ward, local poets including Raja Belle Freeman, dancers and a concert from Forecast. Local Black fraternities and sororities will participate. The emcee for the event will be Kierra Cotton from WKYC.

Food trucks will be on site at The Walt, including The Dawg Bowl Cajun Cuisine.

Last year after Juneteenth became a national holiday, Mayor Michael Dylan Brennan called for the establishment of a citizens committee to plan for an annual celebration. Geoff Englebrecht, the citys director of housing and community development, is helping to organize the celebration.

For both visitors and residents, I am hoping they are both educated and entertained during the event, Englebrecht said in a news release. I believe the Juneteenth Celebration will help showcase the city as a great place to visit, and will give residents something they will be able to enjoy and look forward to every year.

Forecast will headline the event. A quintet from Cleveland, Forecast plays a musical blend of jazz, funk, rock, reggae and pop. The band has headlined across the region and has served as the house band for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the stage band for the regional Emmy Awards.

Juneteenth Celebration will be hosted by Kierra Cotton, a digital reporter at WKYC.

Englebrecht and Brennan thanked the planning committee members for making the event possible, including Alicia Sloan, Lauwanna Anderson, Faye Benson, Saundra Berry and councilman Justin Gould.

This year, Juneteenth falls on Fathers Day.

Instead of just grilling out at home, bring your dad to Juneteenth, Englebrecht said. Its a family-friendly event that everyone will enjoy.

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After Susie Fishmans three children were launched into adulthood, she told her husband, Ive been cooking three meals a day for 23 years. Im going to take the next 23 years off. A lot of spaghetti dinners ensued.

Then, in 2019, while the Palo Alto couple was attending a family bar mitzvah in Israel, Fishman got inspired. She had been there before, but this was the first trip where she was free to explore, no longer having to tend to her childrens needs.

The Machane Yehuda shuk in Jerusalem was the spot that drew her in, and where she kept returning. I couldnt tear myself away, she said. But it wasnt just the shuk; she fell in love with Israeli cuisine as a whole. She ended up buying an additional suitcase to fill with spices.

When she got home, she began experimenting.

I ended up setting up a lab in my kitchen and started concocting my own spice blends, said Fishman, an engineer by training. If you walked into my house at that time, youd be roped into doing a taste test.

Not long after, she started her own online company, Meet My Kneads, where she sells her spice blends, including at least one All Shuk Up whose name references her original inspiration. A large part of the proceeds goes to fighting hunger on college campuses.

It is important to her that her company be kosher to serve the widest Jewish audience, so she orders spices from a kosher company and mixes them at the Chabad house in Palo Alto with supervision by Rabbi Yosef Levin, no slouch in the kitchen himself. And with names like Meshuga for Mexican (which is delicious sprinkled on avocado), Zaydes BBQ, A Shtikl Pickle and Ungapatchke Challah (Yiddish for excessively kitschy), shes got some of the Jewiest marketing around.

The Yiddish tickles your funny bone, she said. Plus, I love to name things, and business-wise, the names are a key differentiator. They add to the charm.

She sells the spice jars individually or in boxes of four. The outside of the package says Yallah! Challah! on one side and gives a shout-out to Bubbe on the bottom with Im shepping nachas from these spices!

These are my go-tos. They make my life so much easier. I can pull one off the shelf and have a fabulous roasted chicken, or fabulous roasted veggies, she said.

They make the best hostess gift if youre going to someones house for Shabbat, or they can be party favors at a shower, Fishman added. Theyre always welcome, because who doesnt love some spice blends to play around with? They add instant deliciousness and spread good vibes.

Because her blends are made in a Chabad kitchen, they have become popular in that community and are certified by the Vaad HaKashrus of Northern California. She said she approached the Orthodox Union about its certification but was told that her business was much too small for them.

Fishman grew up ultra-Conservative, she said, and has been a member of the Reform Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills for 25 years. She also supports three local Chabad houses. I dont want to label myself or anyone else, she said.

Meet My Kneads supports two organizations that fight hunger on college campuses, a cause where she felt she could have some impact. Challah for Hunger, recently renamed Nazun, was founded by college students who raise money to combat food insecurity by baking and selling challah, and Swipe Out Hunger allows college students to donate unused funds on their meal plans to their peers.

At first, Fishman just gave away her spice blends to friends, but right before the pandemic, she launched it as a charitable business. Now she has many repeat customers and said she is grateful for all the people shes met along the way.

While the blends currently are sold only through her website, she hopes to expand further, perhaps into kosher stores or on Amazon.

Hopefully, thats the next frontier, she said.

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EMERGING from a year of COVID restrictions and believing the pandemic was behind us, Yom Haatzmaut last year was a real cause for communal celebration. After keeping our distance during the past 12 months, we could finally come together en masse with friends, family and fellow community members to enjoy the Jewish states 73rd anniversary.

The naches though was short lived. Just two weeks after the birthday bash, we looked on in horror as 45 worshippers were crushed to death and around 150 injured during the traditional Lag bOmer pilgrimage to Mount Meron.

It was the worst civilian disaster in Israels history. But the nation hadnt even finished sitting shiva before the scene was set for a fresh military conflict, with tensions flaring in Jerusalem over Sheikh Jarrah and the Temple Mount. Rioting and bloodshed throughout the country was overshadowed only by the bombardment of rockets raining down from Gaza.

The IDFs response, targeting the terrorists behind the deadly onslaught, led to the all-too predictable attacks on Israel on these shores and a concomitant spike in antisemitism. Jewish students felt the heat on campus, while various politicians and pundits condemned Israel, echoing the poisonous propaganda of the pro-Palestinian protesters who thronged through the streets of the CBDs.

Our Israel solidarity rallies, by contrast, mourned the innocent victims on both sides and drove home a message of peace. The gatherings heard from senior politicians from both major parties endorsing the Jewish states right to defend itself against those intent on its destruction.

Hostilities eventually drew to a close and just two weeks later Israel woke to a new dawn with a broad coalition forming a post-Netanyahu government stretching from left to right, and including, for the first time in history, an Islamist Arab party.

Back home in Australia however, things were not so bright as Melbourne and Sydney were plunged back into lockdown. Undaunted, our team here at Zionism Victoria, like other communal organisations, rose to the challenge, serving up a range of online events addressing everything from the Olympics to the Ben & Jerrys boycott, and all manner of topics, from culture to cuisine, in between.

And so to today. With the shadow of COVID hopefully passing, we come together as a community once again to mark Israels birthday. But while we pray that the celebratory spirit lasts a little longer than last year, we recognise that both the Jewish state and the Jewish community here in Australia face considerable challenges.

As we head towards Israels 75th anniversary, the BDS movements successful targeting of the Sydney Festival in January sounds alarm bells. No doubt bolstered by their unprecedented achievements, they will seek to strike elsewhere.

The recent Amnesty Report, meanwhile, branding Israel an apartheid regime fans the flames of enmity among those who wilfully oppose the existence of the Jewish state and those beguiled by the reports mistruths and misconceptions. And then there are individuals and groups within our own ranks who down Israel at every opportunity, even so far as opposing the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, and in so doing undermine the united front required to preserve and promote our communal identity as proud Jews and proud Zionists.

Instilling that sense of pride in our youth, advocating for the community and for Israel, especially when the country is under fire both literally and figuratively and reminding ourselves and our fellow Australians of all that has been achieved in just 74 years the miracle of the modern state that is our mission here at Zionism Victoria, a mission no doubt shared by all our communal roof bodies and mainstream communal organisations.

Yes, there is still a way for Israel to go. There are inequalities in society that need addressing, political schisms that challenge government stability, tensions between Charedi and less religious members of the population, and, of course, there is that all-too elusive peace with the Palestinians. But, and its a big but, diplomatic breakthroughs with erstwhile enemies and an Arab party in Israels governing coalition prove that progress is not elusive.

And so, this Yom Haatzmaut we pray for a peaceful year ahead and, indeed, the realisation of an enduring peace that once and for all will finally confine the ArabIsraeli conflict to the pages of history.

With those hopes and prayers in mind, we urge you to show your support for Israel at next weeks Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut events in your respective states mourning the fallen, celebrating its accomplishments and rejoicing in the possibilities of what is still to be achieved.

Zeddy Lawrence is executive director of Zionism Victoria.

Yom Hazikaron commemoration is at 7pm on Tuesday, May 3 at Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash Clayton. Register.

Yom Haatzmaut community festival is from 4pm on Thursday, May 5 atCaulfield Racecourse. Register.

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L.A. Underwater: The Prehistoric Sea Beneath Us at Natural History Museum. Photo by Christina Champlin

If the start of a new month has you itching to get out and explore Los Angeles, then youve come to the right place.

This May 2-6 in L.A. youll find a new exhibition at the Natural History Museum, the start of the 2022 L.A. County Fair, Cinco de Mayo celebrations and special menus, free jazz at LACMA, a May The Fourth Be With You edition of Movies on Location, Lucha Libre at The Mayan, and more.

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L.A. Underwater: The Prehistoric Sea Beneath Us -> Opening today (May 2), the newest exhibition at the Natural History Museum focuses on L.A.s prehistoric past, when much of the land we see together was covered by ocean, and sea creatures. Included with general admission to NHM, which starts at More info here.

Netflix is a Joke: The Festival-> Netflixs first-ever live comedy festival will bring over 100 live shows to 25 Los Angeles venues from April 28 to May 8. The lineup is, frankly, too big to list here, but if they have a Netflix comedy special, rest assured theyre probably part of this show. More infohere.

Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse-> The first west coast display of the iconic fashion designers works is now in exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art .Mind, Mythos, Museexamines McQueens artistic legacy through a display of garments from the Collection of Regina J. Drucker alongside artworks from LACMAs permanent collection. Runs through Oct. 9. LACMA is open Thursday to Tuesday. More infohere.

Your (Un)natural Garden-> A new installation experience created by artist Adam Schwerner is now open daily at Descanso Gardens.Your (Un)Natural Gardenoffers colorful, interactive pop-up works and installations located inside the Sturt Haaga Gallery, Boddy House. Touching the art is definitely encouraged. Runs through Jan. 8, 2023. Included with garden admission. More infohere.

New at Skirball > Two new exhibitionsare now openat the Skirball Cultural Center, both firmly rooted in the immigrant experience.Ill Have What Shes Having: The Jewish Delitraces the Jewish immigrant experience in America through the lens of the delicatessen, whileTalking Back to Power: Projects by Aram Han Sifuentescenters on stories of immigrant garment workers in the United States. Skirball is openTuesday through Sunday. General admission is $12, and free on Thursdays. You can find a photo preview of the new exhibitionshere.

1982: The Summer of Movies -> What did the blockbuster look like 40 years ago? Starting this week, American Cinematheque takes you back to the summer of 1982 with a slate of classic film screenings that continues through May 13. The series opens this Tuesday with Fast Times at Ridgemont High at Los Feliz 3, and you can also catch John Carpenters The Thing at Aero Theatre on Friday. GA tickets are $13. More info here.

Beyond the Lists: Can We Eat Our Fish and Have It Too? -> Every first Wednesday evening of the month, the Aquarium of the Pacific hosts a free guest lecture and cocktail reception. This month, Kimberly Thompson , director of the Aquariums sustainable seafood program, interrogates the myths, realities, and sometimes conflicting messages associated with sustainable seafood. Free to attend with RSVP. Runs 7 to 9 p.m. More info here.

Movies on Location -> My Valley Pass celebrate May The Fourth Be With You Day this Wednesday with a special screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at Neiman & Companyin Van Nuys, the former home of Industrial Light and Magic. GA tickets start at $20. More info here.

L.A. County Fair -> This week the centennial edition of the L.A. County Fair returns to Fairplex in Pomona with a new spring timeframe, and its usual assortment of carnival rides, concerts, and way-too-greasy food. Advanced purchase adult tickets start at $15. Open Thursday to Sunday through the end of the month. More info here.

Cinco De Mayo at Desert 5 Spot -> On Thursday, Desert 5 Spot celebrates Cinco De Mayo with a complimentary three hour open bar with Avion Cristalino Tequila starting at 8 p.m. Guests can also expect a Mariachi band and a menu of specialty cocktails.

Cinco de Mayo at I|O Rooftop -> Spend Thursday taking in the scenic views of the city at I|O Rooftop enjoying tequila tastings, live food stations, and live DJs. The fun starts at 3 p.m. and goes till midnight. Tickets cost $10 per person. This is a 21 and over event.

Martial Arts Museum Free Admission -> Every first Thursday of the month, the Martial Arts Museum in Burbank offers free admission from 3 to 6 p.m. If you want more free museum ideas for this month, check out our May cheatsheet.

Lucha Libre Rides Again with Cinco de Mayan -> This Thursday and Friday, The Mayan hosts a special two-night Cinco de Mayo celebration featuring Lucha VaVooms signature combination of Mexican masked wrestling, burlesque, and comedy. Tickets are $65. More info here.

Cinco De Mayo Mercado -> This Friday, San Gabriels Cinco de Mayo Mercado brings a festive evening to the Mission District, including a tribute to Selena by Grammy Award-winning artist Adelaide Pilar and a live performance by Ballet Folklorico Sol de Fuego. There will also be artisan vendors to browse, a beer garden, and food trucks onsite with bites for purchase. Free to attend. More info here.

First Fridays at NHM: Plant Powered -> Natural History Museum continues its 2022 First Fridays series in May with Plant Poweredon Friday, May 6. Dance to tunes spun by DJ Sammi G and catch a panel discussion featuring Ricardo San Martin, director of UC Berkeleys ALT:MEAT lab and Jocelyn Ramirez, founder of Todo Verde. Cap the evening by enjoying live musical performances by Empress Of and Loyal Lobos. Tickets are $20 for non-member adults. More info here.

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Jazz at LACMA -> This Friday at 6 p.m., the Los Angeles County Museum of Art welcomes the Louis Van Taylor Quintet to the Smidt Welcome Plaza as part of the ongoing Jazz at LACMA series, which continues every Friday evening through June 24. Admission is free, however seating is limited and first come, first served. More info here

PCH Movies & Moonlight -> Long Beach retail center 2nd & PCH continues their free outdoor movies series this Friday with a screening of The Goonies, to begin just after sunset. Seating is complimentary, but spots are first come, first serve. Get more info here.

Capri Opens at Eataly L.A. -> Eatalys latest pop-up concept, Capri, aims to transport guests to the Amalfi Coast through southern Italian cuisine and refreshing beach side sips. Named after the island of off the coast of Naples, the space is decorated with the regions world famous lemon trellises with plenty of Limoncello drinks featured on the beverage menu as well. Beverage Director and Napoli native Luigi Capasso developed a special cocktail menu for the pop-up where guests can build their own spritz, enjoy an Italian ice pop swirled in a glass of Prosecco or keep it simple with a selection of Italian beers and wines. Open for lunch and dinner the menu created by Executive Chef and another Napoli native Giuseppe Mancois pays tribute to the beachside restaurants along the Amalfi coastline. Guests are treated to tender baby octopus in tomato sauce served with grilled bread; Scialatielli pasta with mussels and clams; Frittura di paranza (fried seafood) with potato crisps; and grilled swordfish dressed simply with lemon and capers. Other cant miss dishes include a Paccheri rag and a Caprese cart experience where guests enjoy fresh mozzarella served table side with a selection of local tomatoes and other accompaniments. Capri is scheduled to remain at Eataly for the rest of 2022 giving Angelenos a taste of summer all year long.

Pitfire Pizza x Sonoratown -> In celebration of Cinco de Mayo,Pitfire Pizza and Sonoratown have come together for an epic pizza collaboration to benefit No Us Without You. For one day (Thursday, May 5) all Pitfire Pizza locations will offerThe Chivichanga, a pizza take on Sonoratowns popular burrito. The pie starts with Pitfire Pizzas sourdough base where slow cooked shredded chicken, Monterey jack, mild cheddar are topped before going in the oven and finished off with sliced radish, onion and lime. The Chivichanga is served with dippers of Sonoratowns signature Spicy Chiltepin Salsa and avocado crema. The collaboration pizza (available for dine-in, take-out and delivery) cost $15 with $5 from each pizza sold goes to support No Us Without You.

Guerrilla Tacos One Day Only Taco Bell Inspired Menu -> Guerrilla Tacos is hosting a Cinco de Gringo special putting a spin on Taco Bell favorites. Only available on Cinco de Mayo, menu items include Bell Beefy Beefer, GT Mexican Pizza, Cinnamon Twisties and Baja Blasted Cocktails. A portion of proceeds from that evening will go to No Us Without You.

Get Machete-Style at Trejos Tacos this Cinco de Mayo -> Trejos Tacos invites guests to turn tacos on the menu at Trejos into Machete-Style tacos. For $2 any taco can be served Machete Style in a burnt cheese-crusted tortilla topped with avocado slices. A Strawberry Fantasy Jalapeo Margarita ($13) will also be on special for the day, made with Strawberry Fanta, jalapeo, tequila blanco, and lime. Say hello to the man himself on Cinco de Mayo, Danny is set to stop by his Farmers Market Trejos Tacos location from 4-5 p.m. and his Hollywood Trejos Cantina from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Lunetta Taste of Puerto Nuevo -> Chef Raphael Lunetta is taking guests south of the border with his four course Taste of Puerto Nuevo menu. Kicking off this Wednesday at Lunetta in Santa Monica and running for two weeks the tasting menu ($68 per person) starts with tortilla soup and then a choice of starter like campechana made with Spanish octopus, rock shrimp, bay scallops, cucumber, and heirloom tomatoes; a choice of main like the wood-grilled Mexican wild shrimp and carne asada plate; or a crispy Mexican Seabass and a Tres Leches berry parfait to complete the meal.

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Holy Basil -> Holy Basil is getting into the Cinco de Mayo spirit offering two special menu items on Thursday. The Thai hot spot in Downtown Los Angeles will feature a Taquito stuffed with Thai basil and potato top with shredded Beef Panang curry and pickled shallots; and a Sope with Kua Kling Ground Pork Avocado, stink beans and salsa verde.

Cinco de Mayo at Gracias Madre -> The plant-based Mexican restaurant in West Hollywood is throwing an all-day Cinco de Mayo extravaganza complete with a live DJ, mariachi band, raffle, taco cart, flowing tequila, mezcal and other surprises. Stop by on Thursday between 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Gracias Madre as well as event sponsors that day will be donating a percentage of proceeds from select cocktails sold at the event to No Us Without You.

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Everyone has pondered over who their ideal celebrity dinner party guests would be - and on Sunday, Jessie Ware fans were invited to live that dream, in a way, with a show that feels like you're a guest in her own home.

Jessie and her mum Lennie are the perfect hosts with their interesting conversation and infectious obsession with food. Theyve taken their award-winning podcast - Table Manners - where they interview some of the biggest names in showbiz, from Sir Paul McCartney to Dame Joanna Lumley, on tour.

They get into hearty discussions about nostalgic food memories and ask guests to set out what their last supper would be, and why. The first stop for the live performance was Edinburgh, before Birmingham and London, but Bridgewater Hall is extra special for Lennie as its her homecoming, as her daughter puts it, as she grew up in Salford.

Also for the evening, were graced with a surprise guest, who turns out to be the wonderful Adam Kay, of the adored This Is Going To Hurt book and BBC TV series. Equally as quick-witted as the comedic mum and daughter duo, Adam ignites screams of laughter from the audience as the threesome bond over their shared Jewish heritage and its rich culture of traditional cuisine.

While the podcast sees either Jessie or Lennie host and cook for the celebrities, being on tour makes it a bit tricky in the kitchen department, so they decide to order a takeaway. However, as the singer shares her excitement over her lunch at Sugo Pasta Kitchen, shes a little embarrassed by their offering of broccoli and aubergine from Viet Shack for their vegetarian guest.

They make up for it though with champagne, and ask us to raise our plastic cups of wine to join them in a celebratory cheers, and a cheesecake, which suits cheese-lover Adam, who says his last supper would be mac and cheese and that his guilty pleasure is cheesy chips.

In his presence, Jessie says the crowd - a mix of very fashionably dressed groups of women, mums with daughters, and gay couples - is being far too polite for Manchester, but the atmosphere understandably turns sobering as Adam opens up about his devastating departure from the NHS after a terrible day at work.

Without going into too much detail, the former doctor explains how each day would be a matter of life or death, and confesses to the immense pressure this can put staff under - the one thing medical school didnt train him for. Jessie, who first started out in journalism, moves the talking points on at just the right time throughout and gets answers to questions everyone wants to know, including Adams go-to from the hospital vending machine (a Twix).

We applaud Adam goodbye before the show breaks for a short interval, and when we return, Jessie says its time to kick back and take off our shoes, as she does with her black pointed heels. Watching just the two of them, their loving bond becomes even more abundant, and wraps the auditorium in a warm hug, making me wish my mum was sitting by my side too (no offence to my fabulous plus one).

Lennie, darling, is being a classic mum and needs help with the iPad, where she reads out questions sent in by the audience during the interval. Theyre asked who they would 'snog, marry, avoid' out of their guests thus far, who has been their worst, and who has been a dont meet your heroes', along with the biggest diva, and while it feels like were all gossiping among friends, they keep it professional by remaining shtum.

But Jessie admits there was one recorded episode with a male guest that never got to see the light of day, invoking a salacious giggle from the throng. The second half continues to be intimate yet more laidback and casual, as Jessie does a Joss Stone, walking around the stalls shoeless taking more questions as we hear about Lennie's love of roast dinners and the singer's unusual but comforting cheese on toast, where she adds peanut butter and marmite.

The show concludes with a bit of a quiz to find their biggest fan of the podcast, as they dish out Lennies famous chicken soup to the lucky ones at the front.

Five years later and 13 series down, its evident why Table Manners has been such a big hit, and their tour is no exception offering a night out that feels like a cosy night in; entertaining, joyous, and a sense of togetherness over our love of food.

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