Cholent, slow-cooked Shabbat stew.
The Bnei Brak Municipality has launched a campaign to encourage vaccinations among yeshiva and Kollel students age 16 and up: everyone who gets vaccinated on Thursday receives an Erev Shabbat care package that includes cholent, a bun, and a bottle of cola.
Cholent is a traditional Jewish stew that simmers overnight for 12 hours or more and is eaten for lunch on Shabbat. This slow-cooking dish conforms with Jewish law that prohibits cooking on Shabbat and still offers a nice warm meal on the holy day. The cholent pot is brought to a boil on Friday before candle lighting and is kept on a source of low heat. It has been suggested that a variant of cholent originated in ancient Judea, possibly as far back as the Second Temple era. The hamin is a Sephardi version of the Ashkenazi cholent and works on the same principle.
Health Ministry battles rabbi over unfounded vaccine claims
Yuval Hacohen Aherov, longtime vaccination opponent who presents himself as man of medicine , says coronavirus vaccines turned Israeli public into guinea pigs and pathogen is merely the flu; his videos have had hundreds of thousands of views
Korin Elbaz Alush |
Published: 02.08.21 , 14:19
Rabbi Yuval Hacohen Asherov is not a professionally trained doctor and has no authority to give medical advice, but presents himself as a man of medicine as he casts doubt on the recommendations of health experts - even when it comes to matters of life and death.
Many doctors have refuted his claims and the Health Ministry, which is trying to have his videos removed, has issued a warning about their content.