Posted on 09/17/2026 9:57:41 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
An Israeli-owned restaurant in New York City has found itself at the center of an online controversy after adding arayes to its menu, prompting accusations from pro-Palestinian activists that it was appropriating Arab and Palestinian cuisine.
Shifka, a Mediterranean pita restaurant located at 324 Bowery in Manhattan, recently added an “Arayes Burger" to its menu, consisting of beef, caramelized onions and tahini-yogurt.
According to a report by Al Araby TV, a video published by the restaurant promoting the dish sparked criticism on social media, with users accusing the Israeli-owned establishment of “stealing" another Arab dish.
Al Araby presented the controversy under the headline, “‘Stealing another dish’: Israeli restaurant in New York adds arayes to its menu, sparking outrage," placing the dispute within the broader debate over the origins and national identity of foods eaten throughout the Middle East.
Shifka, however, does not identify the arayes burger as an Israeli dish on its menu. The restaurant describes its cuisine more broadly as Mediterranean street food.
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Now Ottolenghi might be marked for death by Hamas for collaborating with a Zionist Occupier restaurant, even lending his name to it.
The original prohibition was against cooking a kid in the milk of its mother. So if it is beef, not goat meat, maybe it’s OK.
Nope. Rabbinical cautionary decrees even against chicken and milk mixtures. BTW, unless you ate goat meat at least once as a child, you will not be able to digest it, due to an enzyme deficiency.
How do the Italians feel about pizza, kanoli, calzones and spaghetti being so thoroughly coopted in America. Mama mia.
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Sounds like something mrs jimfree and I would throw together if the right items were in the refer. Tahini yogurt? Not sure about that, with dairy yogurt we’ve probably done this already.
Recently, I was in Japan for a family trip. At one of the temples in Tokyo, you can rent kimonos, and we saw tourists walking around in them. I made a joke about cultural appropriation.
My daughter-in-law, who is experienced in the culture, and can speak passable Japanese, said "the Japanese are not stupid", and they like it when people appreciate their culture.
When Nixon was President, they were going to have an Orthodox Jew for a dinner at the White House, so they tried consulting the Bible to find out what the rules were for kosher food. I think it was a rabbi who told them they needed to consult a more recent source.
The Free-Free Palestine crowd are very stupid, and are getting mad at restaurants for cooking stuff, and ordering Palestinians to also get mad. Are Belgians mad at Americans for eating “french fries” and not calling them “Belgian fries”? That’s where it comes from. Joyce Kilmer wrote about it while soldiering on thru the Belgian boonies in WW I.
Try it. You’ll like it.
“...eating all sorts of cuisine with a good conscience was the hallmark of a liberal...”
I’m still waiting for the socialists to admit they eat crow on many occasions.
wy69
I believe what’s known variously as Qahwa (Arabic; cannot figure out my laptop’s Arabic keyboard; my phone is easier, but is missing too many fine points of the language), קפה שחור (modern Hebrew), Turkish coffee (English), or in Greek as ελληνικο, and in Turkish as Türk Kahvesi, is merely the way that coffee was first prepared before people got fancy about it. Kudos to the Arabs, who simply call it “Qahwa,” which means “coffee”. I can’t imagine Arabs getting all upset about arayes burghers in an Israeli restaurant. Blood libels, sure. They do that at times. But “cultural appropriation”? “الاستيلاء الثقافي
aliastila’ althaqafiu”? Nah.
I recall something in the scriptures about not cooking the calf in its mother’s milk as defining that part ol Kosher.
What the actual F@=#
Are you insane.
That claim is completely false. The human body does not need childhood “exposure” to goat meat to digest it, and there is no specific “goat meat enzyme” that you can be deficient in.
Here is how the biology actually works:
Universal Meat Enzymes: Your body digests meat using general proteolytic (protein-breaking) enzymes like pepsin in your stomach and trypsin or chymotrypsin from your pancreas. These enzymes break down chemical bonds in proteins regardless of whether they come from a goat, a cow, a chicken, or even plants like soybeans. [3, 4, 5]
I have this from a man who was very involved in the food industry, and he told me that a west indies themed hotel and restaurant that served goat meat met with a bad fate when nearly all of the guests became ill, and they checked the sanitation of the kitchen, the slaughterhouse, the hotel itself, and found nothing wrong. There are many enzymes, some of them peculiar to certain foods. A general protein-digesting enzyme does not make milk digestable to the lactic intolerant,f or example. At any rate, the hotel was a failure, and there was no remedy for the mature gastrointestinal systems that had never before ingested goat meat. West Indians and Arabs would not have this problem. I don’t know if goat milk could suffice to supply the missing enzyme. I’m very fond of it, and in Israel it’s just a little more expensive than cow milk. But I have no goat meat to test that hypothesis out on. I’ve eaten buffalo meat, venison, goose and duck, but never goat meat. It’s simply not on the market. Maybe this is why.
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