Cholent Weekly

Here are some inspiring, insightful, interesting, shocking stories seen on the web this past week...

1. Hareidi boy goes missing in north Israel - brought to safety, this one is about unity.

2. All dressed in green shirts around 50 anti-semites walk into a supermarket in France and empty its shelves of "products from Israel" in an attempt to boycott Israel. No police around? Very disturbing video.

3. Is American Jewry in trouble? Salomon says (video)

4. Don't let life pass you by - learn from it. The School of life. Lori Almost Live (Video)

5. Obama Let My People Grow! That's artwork

ENJOY!

What's Cholent?

Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholent

Cholent (Yiddish: טשאָלנט, tsholnt or tshoolnt) or hamin (Hebrew: חמין‎; also chamin) is a traditional Jewish stew simmered overnight, for 12 hours or more, and eaten for lunch on the Sabbath ... There are many variations of the dish, which is standard in both the Ashkenazi and Sephardi kitchens The basic ingredients of cholent are meat, potatoes, beans and barley. Sephardi-style hamin uses rice instead of beans and barley, and chicken instead of beef. A traditional Sephardi addition is whole eggs in the shell (haminados), which turn brown overnight. Ashkenazi cholent often contains kishke or helzel – a sausage casing or a chicken neck skin stuffed with a flour-based mixture. Slow overnight cooking allows the flavors of the various ingredients to permeate and produces the characteristic taste of cholent...