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.
comment If I d have stayed, I would have died, says driver of bus torched by Haredi rioters
Eyal Tzipori arrived in predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak with five passengers and was attacked by mob enraged by police efforts to enforce health regulations; he was rescued by paramedics who fought tooth and nail to save him
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Published: 01.25.21 , 12:14
Public bus driver Eyal Tzipori arrived in Bnei Brak on Sunday night with five passengers, precisely as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox extremists were clashing with police over the enforcement of coronavirus restrictions and crackdowns on unauthorized gatherings at synagogues and Haredi educational institutions.