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Shabbat
Across America’s Chicken Soup Challenge
As a means
of reaching out to new audiences and generating interest in the
8th annual Shabbat Across America program, NJOP initiated Shabbat
Across America's Chicken Soup Challenge. From the more than 500
entries that poured in from across the country, five finalists were
selected to compete in a cook-off on February 24, 2004 at Abigael's,
one of New York's premiere kosher restaurants. In the end, native
New Yorker Rosely Himmelstein claimed the bragging rights to "the
best chicken soup in America" as well as a trip for two to
Israel. [Click here for winning recipe.]
Scores of articles on the contest appeared, including coverage in
some of the nation's top newspapers, including USA Today, the New
York Daily News, and the Washington Post, as well as on major broadcast
outlets in New York, including Fox 5 news and two popular radio
stations-WPLJ (95.5 FM), Q104.3 FM.
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Chicken
soup: Long simmered in tradition For American Jews, it's a
cultural touchstone
(March
29, 2004)
Chicken soup has played an important
role in Jewish life for centuries and is a tradition at many
family meals for Passover, which this year begins next Monday
at sundown.
It's also a common element that links Jews of all backgrounds
and all degrees of religiosity.
''It's something cultural,'' says Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald,
director of the National Jewish Outreach Program (www.njop.org),
which he founded in 1987 to educate non-observant Jews about
their religion. ''Most people identify that classic, greasy
chicken soup with the Jewish faith.''
CLICK FOR FULL
ARTICLE
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It's
the chicken soup du jour (February 25th, 2004)
Super Tuesday came to New York a week early….CLICK
FOR FULL ARTICLE
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Food:
The best chicken soup in the U.S.?
UNITED
PRESS INTERNATIONAL
….
The contest was also to draw notice to the Shabbat Across
America on March 12, when tens of thousands of Jews will throw
open the doors of over 700 synagogues in the United States
and Canada in an effort to bring in members of the Jewish
community not usually found in synagogues on Friday nights…..
CLICK
FOR FULL ARTICLE
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IT'S
OFFICIAL: CHICKEN SOUP CHAMP CHOSEN
(February
25, 2004)
Bragging
rights to "the best chicken soup in America" officially
belong to Rosely Himmelstein of New York City. CLICK
FOR FULL ARTICLE
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Comfort
soup's layers of flavour make it a winner
(April
5, 2004)
EXCERPT:
"Rosely Himmelstein's chicken soup is no longer on the
back burner.
The New York grandmother and psychologist has won Shabbat
Across America's Chicken Soup Challenge. She triumphed over
more than 500 other home cooks in the United States in the
contest run by the National Jewish Outreach Program.
"It was our goal to remind people that Jewish life can
be fun - and delicious," says director Rabbi Ephraim
Buchwald, director of the organization, which runs programs
in North America and around the world."
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CHICKEN
SOUP WITH A MESSAGE
AMATEUR COOK USES RAINBOW OF FLAVORS TO CELEBRATE DIVERSITY
FOR SHABBAT CONTEST
(February
13, 2004)
EXCERPT:
A
62-year-old amateur Belmont cook and retired Silicon Valley
computer executive, Greenberg is one of five finalists --
out of 700 entries -- to compete in the first national chicken
soup contest in New York. The Chicken Soup Challenge is designed
to encourage unaffiliated Jews to become more religious. Contest
organizers openly admit their ulterior motive is for families
to enjoy their freshly made chicken soup tonight to celebrate
Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath…Chicken soup may be a panacea
for the masses when they catch colds or get the flu, but it
is first and foremost an integral part of the Shabbat meal….
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Rosely
Himmelstein (New York, NY)
WINNER, BEST CHICKEN SOUP IN AMERICA
SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM
(February 24, 2004)
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Jewish
group cooks up culture in the kitchen (March 06, 2004)
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