kosher

The first Saturday of the month, our synagogue passes out free bottles of Israeli kosher wine to married couples celebrating anniversaries that month.

The city’s appetizing stores, which first appeared in the late 19th century, are a type of delicatessen that only sells products such as smoked and cured fish, dairy and nuts due to kosher law.

She starts by drizzling olive oil and sprinkling kosher salt on a slice of homemade sourdough before toasting.

Here, her incorrigible Eleanor barks at a grocery store clerk to fetch the kosher pickles and cackles with glee informing her grandson that his mother’s high school nickname was the “class mattress.”

So she knows what it’s like to be kosher, and I guess it’d be a good excuse for sneaking in food to the movie theater.