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I Ate A Crab Knish While Talking Treyf At Jewish Banquet

JL;DR SUMMARY At the Trefa Banquet 2.0 in San Francisco, Jewish culinary enthusiasts gathered to indulge in treyf, or non-kosher foods, as a means of educational exploration into Jewish eating practices. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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KosherJewish FoodReform JudaismConservative JudaismAmerican Jewish CultureSan FranciscoFood HistoryAlix WallTrefa BanquetJewish Culinary Practices

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San Francisco, California, United States
"I am with a group of 80 or so other Jews gathered at Brick and Mortar, a large, dimly lit music venue in San Francisco."
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
"Trefa Banquet 1.0 was quite a different scene. It took place on a muggy, sweltering night in 1883, in Cincinnati."

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