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Nashville's only kosher food show, KOSHERfoodFEST, will be Sunday, March 29, at the Gordon Jewish Community Center, 801 Percy Warner Blvd.

Shliach Cooking on TV! – Festival will Highlight Kosher Food!

Nashville’s only kosher food show, KOSHERfoodFEST, will be Sunday, March 29, at the Gordon Jewish Community Center, 801 Percy Warner Blvd.

The event will be 1–4 p.m. and will offer free food samples, recipes, cooking demonstrations, and a model matzah bakery where kids get the chance to bake.

“There will be many different vendors and supermarkets who will be there to display the kosher food they sell,” said Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel, director, Chabad Center for Jewish Awareness.

Sponsored by the Chabad Center for Jewish Awareness and the Gordon Jewish Community Center, the event is free and open to the public and designed to be of interest to both adults and children who want to learn about kosher foods.

“In 2008 there were 65,000 kosher-certified products and $5 billion in sales in the kosher industry,” Tiechtel said. “While 40 percent of the annual kosher sales are for the holiday of Passover, which will be less than 10 days after this event, these impressive numbers indicate that the interest in kosher foods goes far beyond the traditional Jewish market.”

KOSHERfoodFEST exhibitors will include Kroger, Harris Teeter and Publix and new exhibitors Trader Joe’s and Joyva Kosher for Passover candies.

The event will also include PARTYFEST 2009, an array of exhibits catering to Jewish family celebrations such as bar and bat mitzvahs and weddings.

The KOSHERfoodFEST is part of a series of educational programs presented by the Center for Jewish Awareness.

For more information, visit www.nashvillejewish.com or e-mail kosherfoodfest@gmail.com.

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9 Comments

  • seriously?

    very well done!!! cant wait for the fest! and zellig. be a bit open minded and not in ur lil box. its only ashkinaic jews who dont eat chummus. ser.

  • Chumus!

    We want to clarify the chumus quote was mentioned inadvertently, as we wanted to show this recipe for the KSOHERfoodFEST, and was not meant to connect for Pesach. In the show it came out as a mistake, and was not meant to say that Chumus should be eaten on Peasch. CHUMUS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE EATEN BY ASHKENAZIC JEWS ON PESACH.

    The recipe was supposed to be for the Kosher food Fest, as one can see on the TV website, it is listed simply as a Kosher recipe, and not one for Passover.
    http://www.newschannel5.com…

    Overall the show brought many people to become more aware of keeping Kosher, and aware of Shmurah Matzah on Pesach.

  • Fellow Shliach

    It is very confusing. I am sure many Ashkenazi Jews who watch this will be thrilled to have chumus added to the meager Pesach diet because a Lubavitcher Shliach not only said so, but showed it graphically on his site. There is no way that Zelig, or anyone else can be openminded about such a tragic mistake, as it says in the Hayom Yom about leaders who can either be n’zakei hrabbim or lehepech chas v;’sholom.
    Something printed, taped, or said in public must be thought out a million times before presenting. And this was obviously not. Not even thought about and edited.
    It is scarey. A comment in CHI will not help all those Ashkenazi yidden who will be adding chumus because the Rebbe’s shliach said so on the air.
    Please don’t make light of this, and may it serve as a lesson for all of us to think before we make a chilul shem Lubavitch with our behavior, that may be done innocently and with no harm meant, but can cause a churban.
    A koshern (chumusless) an\d freilichen Pesach with Moshaich Now

  • a lamplighter

    Dear Seriously,
    We have lightened up and gone beyond all boundaries that the Rebvbe and Halacha have set. Its “lighten up” about mixed events-dinners etc, its “lighten up” about showing women on our websites, “lighten up” about events with an Israeli flag, and we keep lightening up. Lighten up about Crown Heights sports groups, about proper dress for men and women alike, and vos noch. Now lighten up about irresponsible unedited show. We will remain empty shells after lighetning up so much. What will be left of us?
    We should stop the lightening on Halocho and chassidishe hanhogo and start lightening up on the real issues: ahavas Yisroel, noticing and looking for the problems that can be stopped before they flare up- in our youth and couples, lighten up on our rush for gsahmiyous, lighten up on machloikes. You could probably add more to the list. It is high time that we resumed our true identity and get the job that the Rebbe gave us done , and that will lighten us all, and enlighten the whole world with the light of Geula.

  • tzvi

    is not only for ashkenazy jews the marrocon jews and jews that came from Egypt aldo do not eat kitniyot.

  • YOEL

    “In the show it came out as a mistake, and was not meant to say that Chumus should be eaten on Peasch”

    BUT IT WAS CLEARLY CONNECTED WITH THE MATZO AND THE SEDER NIGHT AND NEEDS TIKUN I HOPE THE VIDEO IS REMOVED FROM “YUOTUBE” NOT TO CAUSE CHILUL SHEM LUBAVITCH

  • A Veteran Shliach

    Chametz or Chumus?
    Do you realize that most people who were watching the show are the ones who most probably eat Chametz and many are intermarried? Sure Chumus is something that many Jews do not eat on Pesach, but in the big scheme of things, are you saying it is making a churban and a chilul Lubavitch?

    Friend, get off your high horse, go out on Shlichus, see what is going on out there……..

    It is unfortunate that there are Lubavitcher Chasidim that all they can do is criticize a Shliach who is out on the front lines doing the Rebbe’s work. We should be an Ezer to one another, and be Chasidim In Mishpacha, and not the opposite.

    In 1991 the Rebbe called for all of his Shluchim to come and come to get the Maamar of V’Shavti V’Sholm El Beis Avi. The Rebbe understood that he is sending his Chasidim out with their families to environments that are cold and hostile to Yiddishkeit; the Shluchim need the Chizuk to carry out the Rebbe’s will. Unfortunately every time a Shliach does something that would not work in Crown Heights, there are the Kanaim that are experts in knocking them down. This is not what is going to bring Achdus in Lubavitch, or bring Moshiach any quicker.

    Even if you notice something that you think should be done differently, think about using your words with sensitivity and concern, the way you would speak to a not yet observant Jew.

    Thank you to the Shliach on the show, who made a Major Kiddush Hashem and brought honor to the name of Lubavitch, and Nachas to the Rebbe.