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| Susie Fishbein |
Two years after organizing a kosher tailgate party outside a Green Bay Packers game to show that it could be done, Chabad-Lubavitch of Wisconsin will be hosting a kosher cooking demonstration and presentation by bestselling cookbook author Susie Fishbein at an upscale gourmet food emporium in Milwaukee’s downtown art hub.
According to Rabbi Shais Taub, who told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2007 that the tailgate barbeque was a demonstration of Jewish pride, this year’s event – which will entail scouring cooking services at the market’s professional demo kitchen to ensure compliance with Jewish dietary laws – is rooted in the same goal of promoting Jewish life everywhere.
“Judaism is not relegated to the synagogue or the study hall,” Taub said two years ago. “When you’re a Jew, you’re a Jew everywhere. If a group of Jews want to go to a Packer game, we do it like Jews.”
Similarly, the rabbi announced in an e-mail that Jewish life needn’t be checked at the market door or stadium gate: “We can do anything,” he said, “and do it Jewishly.”
After the Nov. 16 demonstration, Fishbein will be on hand to sign copies of her cookbook, Kosher by Design.



