Table for Two 9 20 19

[Music] good morning everyone I am so excited to be here hello how you all doing good Erev Shabbos this is table for two with name you know I'm gonna I'm seagull Network I am thrilled to see you CK it has been a whole week I've done I mean over time I'm done before Rosh Hashanah we'll do four straight shows I hope that everyone has been tuning in and catching up because we've had a lot of fun in the studio's how crazy were those things last week that we made those arrays I made them last night for dinner finally in in my house so lots of cooking going on at this time for those of you are tuning in for the very first time and the yummy Nachman I'm about all the food all the time I love food I love shopping for it cooking it eating it eating at restaurants anything food related I'm a kosher personal chef my business club that I see gourmet I run chopped competitions I'm a two-time book author and I love traveling the whole world but I want to hear about your experiences too so if you eat ate somewhere cool or made something delicious email me this should be conversation Naomi at Nahum Siegel calm and I'd love to hear about or your exciting food adventures um couple of housekeeping notes that we need to take care of guys do you remember two weeks ago we had the Wall Street guys which I say yep Wall Street Grill they were on the show right and we did a giveaway well it is time to announce that giveaway you have a drumroll for me okay I'm thinking that we should get the drum roll on he's looking for it what have we got I've got a pause okay we'll do applause okay guys met my guest maybe we'll do the drum rolls okay we can shuck out they're gonna chip in my drama and the winner is for dinner for two at Wall Street Grill is roofing brick that is really exciting when I saw his name when I pulled out his name I was so happy because number one he told me it's his wife that he and his wife six wedding anniversary but they're really big fans of the night I'm sticking what network they love now I'm very supportive table for two and I was like wow that was amazing so I'm congratulations ravine you know how to reach me and I will I will get that out to you so Wall Street Grill one of my favorite Manhattan restaurants so go check it out it's a destination restaurant and there will be open on sakata which is really cool they have the most magnificent rooftop balcony that you can eat at so definitely put that on your list course soon to make a reservation I thought it was nice to go them and eye shadow generous okay now let's switch to Miami Beach because I spent a lot of time in Miami about ten days ago I was a book tour for the Jewish Book Council I did three demos down in Florida so just a shout out to my friend Michelle Sacco Miami foodie enter on Instagram and she took me around with some of the great crew that's down there Swilley cooks and I'm sure I'm gonna leave someone else Diana from the funny side of life have I'm saying that right and your Schwartz I hustled and hipster or his or he's also known as that your Schwartz on Instagram and they took me around we ate at so many insane restaurants if you do follow me on instagram you'll see but we added a restaurant called Samy sousou guys what you do is you it's a real Israeli restaurant everyone there speaks Hebrew there's like Israeli memorabilia all over the wall and it's like modern Israeli cuisine as they clear up your meal it's time for dessert you have to get this dessert guys they they wash the table down they put down brown paper then they come running at you with music and start dumping dessert all over the table it's like a show and he ends up with about ten desserts ten different desserts it was four of us all over the table like they painted on the table with custard and it was it was amazing so go check out Sammy sue sue it was brilliant how we went to hammer Bistro for lunch Grand Cafe in Fort Lauderdale the grove supermarkets Josh Schwartz just took it over and at the food department and he's gonna what's all food cuz it's a supermarket it helped managing the takeout as well and he gave me a tour a couple of them because it I kind of call them like the gamma glut of Miami's they have a few locations all over the place so kind of like oh by Glatt so I went there and of course so Grand Cafe Grove did I say tasty beach tasty [ __ ] is my favorite big thank you to Jeremy for showing us or your incredible food that you have going on there so um just if you are down in Florida and you are I know it's only Rosh Hashanah you are thinking about winter break but make reservations does not hurt way goes um way goes is another favorite of mine and Soho Grill in I want to say EV insurer I don't know what that is I don't know my area so well crudo fish it's a fish shop that also spoke about so many great places and that whole strip the carrot red rabbit Oh Rebecca I know that's my thing it right now I think that's in Teaneck also good places and he has the rusty go rustic oh sorry was rust ago so both ours and dairy so if you are down in Florida or Teaneck there you go go check out all those restaurants we have an amazing line-up for you today we have three incredible guests three people that have crossed my path in the last two months some even sooner than that so I'm gonna I'm gonna introduce everyone I'm gonna interview one at a time and then we'll all come together for chitchat okay so you guys know that I'm doing a birthright trip while southing a birthright trip around Hanukkah time and registration is still open so I'd like to welcome on the trip there are you the head director of Israel free spirit with oh you recruitment manager shaaka Avraham hello how are you excellent I'm very excited to have you it's fun being in the studio right he walked in he's like looking at all the memorabilia on the walls and stuff very nice okay so I've also got um in the house I've got Nicolas Quran from the vai cron I said it right really why okay he's got a really cool accent himself we'll talk about that is um was on my Instagram here safer whoever that my Instagram stories we're gonna have a great time talking about I'm gonna leave them hanging a surprise because I was blown away by this that what we're gonna talk about and then of course I have we're out with Rabbi David right oh there you are saying it it was hard getting in this morning right a it by the way I live in five towns and Nick lives in Great Neck and it took us an hour and a half to get here where are you I just came from downtown okay he could have walked it did you walk you from there you know that would be quite a trek but okay good good yeah there was insane traffic welcome to work work yeah right city bike okay city bike and we will be talking about City torrents yeah we'll be talking at Citi Field in a couple of minutes for the oh you mean the Queens this Sunday this Sunday you should know I was on jam in the a.m. Thursday morning we're recording this on Thursday yes I'm doing this on a Thursday guys you see five pre-recorded so Wednesday per term doing on a Thursday knock'em had me on jam in the a.m. this morning he wasn't got to get a bagel in Woodmere and we spoke about the events we got lots of shout outs okay great I still have to finish signing up okay alright Chuck had talked to me about birth right when did that oh you get involved with birth right since its inception which was what how many years ago approximately 20 years ago when birthright Israel was established okay can you tell us a little bit of history about birth right sure okay we got foam from the top well I can't go with so much into that history of birth rate but I'll tell you a little bit more about the trips that we run and specifically about Israel free spirit okay that's what we went to Israel free spirit yeah so Israel free spirit birthright is one of the trip organizers that part that is in partnership with birthright Israel to run official birthright trips right now birthright also means Taglit right the organization is Taglit birthright Israel okay under them are a number of different organizations and institutions that partner with birthright Israel and operate official trips okay yeah so Israel free spirit birthright which is affiliated with the oh you the Orthodox Union has been around since birth right Israel's inception and we run these which started in 1999 and we run these life-changing trips anywhere from seven to ten days taking Jews of all backgrounds from North America to Israel for just an incredible experience and yeah it's just a lot of fun I personally have staffed a number of trips and yeah people have there's been [ __ ] okay mate huh yes they're having okay so um let's talk about the specific one the one that I'm gonna be staffing about food when did you first start food trips a couple of seasons ago yeah I don't remember the exact season but it's it's one of the most popular trips okay you can imagine everybody loves food and just seeing the culture in Israel so okay so it's a food and culture i staffed run with my husband in 2015 was consider like a regular birthright you've happened to been an orthodox trip they don't always have you know everybody's there because as we said all walks of life and I'll actually we're still in touch with all our kids that is awesome kids you know young adults some of them were kids right out of high school all the way through 25 26 at the time and we are like we hear all the good news sometimes there's bad news but we're we're still in touch with it's a really nice thing that's great okay so tell me - tell us a little bit more about the trip about the hilum that join and all that sure so just a little bit more about the trip itself each trip has a very similar itinerary in which we're hitting all the hot spots throughout the country and you're going north south east west from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to the north and in the Golan Heights seeing beautiful sights I even going on the border of Syria and Lebanon and going as far south as the Bedouin tents which are a little bit south of bear Sheva oh yeah I remember that one yeah that's all I was we were there in August and it was hot like anything but at night it gets kind of chilly yeah was fun I got to sleep in there in you slept in a tent no no no I I got a house our house yes yeah I think after 40 get another I don't think many participants know that the staff have like their own staff house okay but in regards to the hilum they're at a certain high eleum soldiers they join as birthright participants for a certain number of days of the trip it's typically around five days and they become integrated into the trip so essentially being participants they get to meet these Americans and the Americans obviously get to meet them and it's really incredible for them for both sides to learn about what it means to be Jewish both in Israel and coming from the United States and I think not many American young adults really know what a high al who's 19 what a 19 year old boys and girls go off and do in America they've got a college they get a job in Israel they go off to the army it's really eye-opening for them right place what do you mean you're not partying in college you're on the front lines right right and for them it's really eye-opening because they're meeting a soldier and they realize and learn very quickly that they're just like them they're the same age they want to have fun and you know they have similar interests and one of the most fun things that we do is a little so when the Israelis come that's called me for gosh like we meet them right that's what the program is called to me gosh program so some trips at least the ones that I've done in order in a way as a way to prep for the Israelis coming we do a little prep activity in which we split our group up and visit before the Israelis comes so we split the group into let's say five different groups and we give each of them a name of an Israeli who's gonna come and we tell them a little bit about their interests because we receive that information before and we tell them here's a poster board here's some markers just just draw them and the pictures are hilarious their joy and they don't know if they're male or female we don't tell them we're just like here's what they're into and they make a pie stiple they just make a little like picture they draw them and then at the end of them if gosh program let's say after the five days that they've joined us we do a closing ceremony with them and we actually we have a surprise where we showed each group comes up and shows the Israelis that like what they thought they were what they thought they looked like before and it's hilarious everybody's crying now because over those five days you really got to know them one day on birthright is like a week oh yeah it feels like oh yeah it's yeah you're making friends for a lifetime friends for a lifetime I absolutely loved it and it's so called you know like um you wanna tell everyone what certain things from birthright are mandated every birthright trip goes to several like several as besides the hospice that you would talk about several things of yet for sham and the Kotel you have a sham really the koto is the one is the one location that is mandatory all tight inner areas are really subject to change but we go to places like I'm a shaman another I remember we went to independence on Masada and which I think is under construction right now know what so I yeah I last trip didn't go I've been cheated on many times over the last whatever how many years old I am and it was the first time when I went on with mirth I took that I went to Independence Hall yeah I knew it was it's not it was not always open so I think once they opened it and they started using it I guess they needed to upgrade it yeah but it was really cool Independence Hall is in Tel Aviv and it's where they sign the Declaration of Independence I walked into that room and you just felt 2,000 years of history just this is happening right now we are sealing the deal this is back to ours and it was amazing it was an incredible experience and something unique about our niche trips like one of the ones that you're running the foodie culture trip is that again the itinerary is pretty much the same but throughout the trip or throughout the itinerary there are I'd say two to three excursions or activities that are unique to the trip so for example typically the foodie culture trip will do a tour of the food market in Tel Aviv Jerusalem I guess specifically a food tour they'll go though they'll visit a winery and they'll do fun things like that that are you know to the niche right and what these trips are therefore ifs we run a multitude of different trips for juice of different backgrounds but also people of different interests so obviously the foodie culture trip we run an arts and entertainment trip for people who are interested in music art entertainment theatre and those also will have their own activities and excursions specific to those trips something really unique to us also is a trip organiser that we run ships for people in recovery from drug addiction and from other addictions and people who are in recovery and that's something that's unique to us so for people who are in those situations they it's very not just for them and we also have special needs trips as well and which we run through Yahoo yeah partnership with Yahoo and and trips for people who are medically disabled as well I'll call the yalla my friend my friend Elisheva ganz you know playing Jewish geography yes she lives right on malaria Giavotella Sheva yes so she does the yellow trip for birthright but these are really incredible opportunities for people we really want to give everybody the opportunity to experience Israel no matter your background we try and cater to everybody what is the point of birthright really people like what's birthright what is birthright Israel like why did these guys stop it I said I'd say it's because they want they want Jewish people from around the world to connect and strengthen their relationship with their Jewish identity as well as with the State of Israel and if not their local Jewish community the global Jewish community really establishing that greater connection you know when when this is a story that really struck with me when I was I was leading our staffing our birthright trip we were in the gush gush etsion 20 minutes from you shall I'm we had stopped on Dara they're not Derek Efron Thank You rabbi I'm Derek abort and and then because we had a religious trip right so we were sitting there with out with our campus staff kids right disciplines not just offense there you go for the right word I work in camps I'm still used to same campus campers only last month I know I'm saying see that mountain there see that trail that's where Ifrah Hamm walked with you f Hawk to their cat if you're watching me on the YouTube channel you'll actually see me point like I'm pretending this amount in there like that's where Avraham walked this is history right here right now your connection they're Jewish her you guys miss them with Brooklyn kids I'm like Avenue J what was there before in Brooklyn I loved Avenue J don't get me wrong I love Brooklyn but what was there before not Avraham Avinu right there Avraham walked you learn about this every single year in Persia and Amish you know and and and there it is right there and it was they were like ah and he that's when she is sure all anointed of it on that rock you know when you do that tunnel tour you know like that will like blown away and these are kids who grew up learning Torah right you know so I found that very that was my big take home for me even you know I was a big groan about four kids at the time and I felt that was a big take home for me um okay cool so let's talk about how one signs up for birthright sure take it away so they can go so you have a special referral link yes I do and we're running that promotion I have it all we're running that promotion which actually ends today today wasn't yet when you're listening to this today okay writing right you take it so remind me your link I think it's Israel free Israel free spirit calm slash Naomi forward slash Naomi if you go to that link you can register for birthright Israel with Israel free spirit you can see all of our trips that trip will specifically select the foodie culture trip because you're promoting it yeah and basically you'll see the application you'll sign up you'll fill in some basic info and then our team will just follow up with you right but the the giveaway we have the giveaway which ends today I think that's where we're going yes you can still sign up even after yes that is correct so right but you we're doing anyone who signs up for my trip through New York music well Inc you you could win a free perfect flavors that's correct okay so that ends this afternoon and what did we say yeah we have at 12 p.m. we're at Friday 9:20 at 12 p.m. shall gave me very specific notes okay great so they can do that and then they can sign up to Israel come on a free trip to Israel I think you have to put down a little money that's right there is a trip deposit of $250 however it is completely refundable after the successful conclusion of a trip you get it back and yeah it's awesome so it is it is completely free unreal it really is it's it's it's an it's an incredible organization and just the whole movement it's awesome okay so guys get on that birthright trip and if even if you just talk about the qualifications you can't have gone to Israel sure so there are some eligibility requirements in order to go on the trip the most basic one is that you have to be Jewish next you have to be between 18 and 32 and aomi strip Naomi's trip is specifically for people between 19 and 25 I believe and if you've done a trip and or if you if you've been to Israel before on an organized program how that's defined will depend on what that program was and in your application you'll indicate what type of program you went on and you'll give more detail so even if you've been to Israel before in an organized program there is a chance that you could go with birthright Israel for free again so I highly recommend seek a signing up I highly recommend Israel free spirit calm slashing it forward slash Naomi check it out sign up for Israel free spirit birthright we have trips not only in the winter but also in the summer and if you're interested in summer trips let's say for example you can't go this winter you can still go this summer we have trips from May through out throughout the whole summer from made us from May to August so that's that's great I can even register now for those I'm actually happy that I'm doing this a winter trip because I already did a summer trip so I'm gonna see a whole different vibe which I'm really looking forward to Wow I'll bring a windbreaker yeah that winter in Israel is still gorgeous that's still right yes like a light jacket jacket yeah yeah but it was nothing like that I'm a heat of 2015 okay great thank you so much for having us I'm I hope everyone signing up I'm just gonna put rabbi hard over here and then we'll talk at the end um yeah you're gonna you're gonna switch these and one last thing well I can actually give it to you that's why that one last thing Naomi I have some swag for you everybody know if you're on if you're watching this you can see the swag okay okay and maybe if you get on the trip you can also get some swag so first off we have a travel pouch you can use for cosmetics or anything really okay good great classic Israel free spirit birth rate water bottle in Israel even in the winter you got a hydrate yes absolutely we have a reusable Solo Cup or so maybe maybe for the college kids there you go and yeah oh and we also have a complimentary oh you pocketbook for you oh yes excellent yes okay cool I just want to make sure I trained it respectfully just a second in my bag absolute okay amazing shaaka thank you so much as nice to meet you in person we've been talking a lot the last couple weeks thank you all right we look forward to it another successful birthright trip okay amazing amazing well done and you guys can probably care back to the office together I'm making sure doc in pay for cab rides hello rabbi what do you need no just for you know what you can bet you I just said I can take a set it just it I mean you're gonna be in a studio I know in special one here we go I have actually really plug it into either Bowl hearings I this make guarantees me good hearing there you go okay how are you thanks for having me my pleasure thanks for nothing this is the first time actually I know it's a big reunion here like yeah I know meet up and missus rideshare I'd to be on my own oh yeah well yeah yeah that quite a rod getting in here this morning it's just the price of living in New Jersey yeah but we're here thank God for the Sunday pray amazing we are three days 20 hours out from the big event big event you've been preparing for months how many how many years have you guys been doing that oh you've been running this tour in New York is in year three that's the third year talk about the inception yeah yeah so it started vision of the current president of the oh you boys Ain who just thought that what why don't we do this one we get no one's done this no one's gotten the full breadth and expanse of luminary scholars and teachers under one roof for a full day of Torah learning there are there certainly you know events like it and and this of course is so different in so many ways in Seema Shas which is also is the once-in-a-lifetime experience you said let's do this and you'll come here and thousands of people will come and feel like they walk the way like I heard a great sheer or an amazing sheer and it's basically like a week before Rosh Hashanah at the time that we want to immerse ourselves in and that's where I I mean the the timing is really officious so for Ashkenazim who are beginning we close this Saturday night you can go to sleep house you'd be inspired and if you walk away you're like what am I gonna do with this inspiration or with this guilt no judgment on what what am I gonna do with it you know you could just like sit on it maybe you can eat your guilt some people do that or you could say I'm gonna channel it into a day of learning Torah I think it's amazing and people are probably thinking that this is a radio show it's loud is it too loud I know I can't there's no feedback actually into the headphones oh okay CK's like oh yeah that's good he wants to wear the headset to look cool it's all about looking right you got the microphone in front I have a I have a pacer radio so what we actually do have a camera right here alright you know the probably thinking a me you do a future why are you talking about you know Torah Torah cuz we always talk about Torah Torah is in our food we make brothers in our food right so every holiday yeah everyday coffee yeah um revolves around food there's the first right of the day right after before deafening I have my sure Huckle coffee and then I go to chakra David in the morning but um so I got a phone call from I think the first phone call from Rabbi Freeman you heard a Freeman um he made the introduction trust me we want to have the foodies at the oh you Citi field's hora and I'm like me what what am I going to be able to do they're like I'm not really Rebbetzin don't have AI don't know if I'd be able to give anything over so there was I know quasi right yeah my husband just did yes well yeah that's all him that he's amazing that I've just you know at our age to be able to go back to Shiva and work and learn is it was amazing that he did with my son-in-law um so we had to come up with a good half I said if I'm gonna be there it's gonna be it's a day of Torah like people aren't really interested in cooking let's put the two together let's do a halacha shear about cooking on yontiff and cooking on choppers and all the things that can go wrong because we want to get better at what we're doing we want to learn so that's exactly it so the bright so we were just from the inception to now the inception was let's let's do this if our if if the OU's gonna have a marquee event a physical event where people show up it's got to reflect in some really profound way what is our community's core value you dig down like what is it we're going to celebrate as we get together and then the answer to that was Torah we get we gather around Torah the we want the event of the year that's gonna be awesome that's fun with something for everybody that you're gonna walk away from have great memories from pictures from at an event about Torah and NASA this is my first year running via run of the show and we said if this is a day about Torah so sure am are deathly Torah there's no questions from our tour but Torrez more than Shoreham how can we highlight and elevate and celebrate Torah in every aspect of everything we do so that we do a heck of a lot of cooking I certainly do a heck of a lot of EJ tonight and the good people in my life accommodate me by doing it okay I'm so happy my husband got breakfast and lunch made by moi okay so we do we do a heck of a lot of eat tour as part of that so that's that's what we're showcasing is yours truly yours Truly's made to you now means going to do a cooking demo but it's not just cooking them now because you can go elsewhere for cooking demo tour New York you come for a cooking demo that's a shear rabbi Gerson from ou a kosher is going to co-present we're gonna cut percentage here talk about all the things that can go right or wrong on cooking on Chavez and yontiff that's and you know if you're coming to prepare for free on set so you're you're coming to see where I'm a lot of people are saying how am I gonna cook and hopefully people thinking like when I'm cooking on yom tov what is what do i have to know what has a different from Shabbos what is it what what is it that my mother never taught me what is it they don't know what can I improve on right oh so many little things I was somewhere um in Israel on Shabbos and someone was making a salad and they were cutting something up that I knew that I didn't do because of talking right grinding you cannot cut up parsley so small cause of grinding we don't grind it right so I'm like thinking she's pretty from she probably you know I was talking about she know she didn't like she just didn't realize you know so I think that like it's it's really interesting to to think that you know like we don't know everything yet and you know that way young person veteran you know if there's always room to grow there's always room to learn I like to think you're coming to this event to learn and grow so we came up with this really cool idea we haven't even met yet in person reproduce and I but we've spoken and you know what art scroll did they printed out recipe cards for the recipes that I'll be demoing I read on the back of the card some recipes from my book that will be perfect for Rosh Hashanah cause you know my book is called perfect flavors so we called it perfect for russia shana and we have a coupon code at the back for anybody who what did we cook oh you torah i think is the coupon code and then people can get perfect flavors with free shipping if they don't have it already and i'll also be selling them there yes so stock your library Thank You library with arts : o you books and all the good stuff stock your kitchen full of delicious spices yes so so it's gonna be like who else is presenting oh my goodness I mean we have a if you you head over to the website at or NY org we have a very full stack of speakers I'm almost scared to run through a mental list of names I think you can leave some out it's okay I mean not not you human you know we can't remember everything just off the top of our plenary speakers of our locally on ski which is very exciting he's released a book recently has been really elevated in the community uh versus V Ramone coming from Israel uh no dr. Jeffrey wolf tasked or whisk in Shawnee tarragon okay Savannah has me here is is a returning fan fave and she's actually on she hoots for the entire year here in America your husband yeah world Mizrahi actually came to North America she's in the five towns isn't she I think she's based on yeah some days how swamped ah somebody just told me about her and I should have her over for a meal I can't remember who told me ha well I'm gonna make an intro on Sunday yes you're making intro someone said she's gonna be in the five towns she I'll tell you crazy story for those of us you know with her our eyes to the east Israeli elections for the second time this year happens this week okay and bp's we don't know yet we still don't know know knows okay it's highly contentious there's a move towards a unity government but i don't know if this is that kind of show I love funny stories I met Bibi and I was on the Jewish media summit in November oh great there was a whole bunch that's very tidy it was elitist not at all and like I don't know I was invited I went me and some food bloggers and journalists from all over the world and gentleman New York will win on this um Jewish media summit it was unreal one of the things was to go to the Knesset where it's kind of like winding down at all they're like we weren't sure if it could meet with us but we met with Michael Oren and we met with a lot of politicians and then we we had that your tools official I'm and people got to choose different tracks that they wanted it was incredible forget it were wrapping up the Knesset or like maybe can meet with you quickly quick quick they take our whole group into like a meeting room or press room out and over yeah but as we walk into that so go back a half an hour we walk into the Knesset and the whole place smells like schnitzel okay it all comes back to food and everyone's like offered other journalists like food bloggers come over here we want to talk to you why does the Knesset smell like schnitzel like we bet you there's a cafeteria here I'm telling you the entire Knesset all I remember besides meeting people whose I'm gonna just say I think he's amazing very dynamic speaker if we caught the face he's quite the steaks and he live central since upper room whether you're pro politics or not I'm living inside he lights up the room I was in a room with him and he just illuminates the room but were like it's all everywhere oh and we found the lunchroom with it or frying schnitzel fresh yeah we didn't get a chance to try it they're like we're so soft dogs we ended up getting some falafel some hole in the wall those ads they're doing that was those that schnitzel I you know they said when you want to sell a house you put cookies in the oven to bake when you want to get the politicians going you fresh schnitzel in the Knesset Israeli politics is just a different animal yeah it was unreal and the animal is chicken yes right fried fried chicken doesn't get better than that though BB is not coming unfortunately he sends his regrets but uh-oh you told me crazy story I'm telling you crazy sir and Yvonne or having me here is here for the year with her husband yeah Ashleigh theme world news rocking one of her very first appearances and her earlier princess will be at or New York and I got an email early this week that see van has been recalled to Israel to report on the elections and I freaked out she's a she's an important journalist so they go back to Israel is like oh my god does that mean she's not showing up Sunday nope she is coming back the money time the muscles make sure to be their fourth or New York no delay something no well you know whatever we'll get there hopefully their private jet their dad's won't get hit by car like my my train did yeah we have no liner rabbi finer which you know he's first cousins with rivets and tarragon she is not there please oh you're right I'm still I'm there first both of them are siblings and their first cousins with our foodie friend Melinda Strauss Wow yeah so I was time at all in our power is family those two with with fede blogger and at cavana now she's cabana she was running Havana conference about having coven and believing yourself and she at first cousins with their rabbi tarragon yeah I didn't realize I we did this family room without realizing only learned afterwards yeah and he was speaking with a finer oh yeah you're driving my sister my mother told me I was like yeah yeah shoutouts to the Finers and the russek's so about a finer will be there Rabbi David Forman good friend of mine I've known him for 35 years he came to Australia on counterpoint when I was a kid in the high school that's so funny I don't if you know what you don't count upon I do it's a it's a cure of program that comes from America and Israel to Australia why to engage in the school yeah was why you program it is why program yep Melbourne gets um why you and Sydney gets from Israel Oh interesting say who was that a program yeah he's amazing what a brilliant speaker very us very very dynamic very dynamic he's got a great voice a radio he does he does got that podcast God Allah fader actually people who we set up a deal with all of a that anyone who signs up for tour in New York he gets a three month subscription to elevator for free okay good not cool yeah yeah be great friends his wife is one of my closest friends will be there hopefully Reena I hope to see you there more speakers we have rabbi Joey haver at Brooklyn we have rabbi avraham kahan a young of Beeston I was gonna give a really incredible shear Rabbi levy Langer is a roach kollel from Pittsburgh have a Judah Michelle I sure can't ask camp ask well okay I'm running the Jerusalem marathon for camp ask look at that yeah everything you can sponsor me oh and drop a link there it's on my Instagram rabbi yaakov new burger from my my corner of town Brogan field Hagan Phil why you Rocha Shiva CB New Rochelle I love her she's amazing yes she is she's terrific I mentioned Rove OC Ramona Michelle Robinson from this fine city the rabbi of Lincoln Square synagogue okay no and also from the Commonwealth oh he's British he's British there you go yes I know you all know each other no no right I just met Nick and he's from Ireland we'll talk about that that's gonna be amazing I cannot wait to check mr. Madera rosensweig will be presenting Rabbi Jonathan Sacks I'm skipping means people who are associate with programs I'll tell you about our Jewish after mrs. Dina Schoonmaker Shira smiles guys we've got a huge lineup we have one very important question okay remember this is a food show what foods gonna be served there there is there are the concession stands yeah we know which concession stands that we can give them a shout out I don't know yet is it the ones at Citi Field like yes so like hotdogs I mean there's gonna be a lot more food than hotdogs there's gonna be I'm just I did not prep this part of the inner ok contract I thought I thought of it I thought of it now like we could've talked about the food part because you know know the food's delicious and we were down there were you we're using we're using Citi field's kosher caterer okay so good there it feels fresher cater so those who have been I love baseball so I've gone you out a few yeah isn't that funny I learned it when I heard this country yeah I've been to a World Series game yeah I know it's tough yeah yeah I did I did a really good one the Diamondbacks play the Yankees in what year and the the 2001 yeah 2001 the Diamondbacks versus the Yankees Yankees Wyeth our in the 11th inning yes Derek Jeter played got up to bed at midnight they called him mr. 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I turned my PhD into a masters and I arrived shiny and off the boat in New York City I had a job lined up in Midtown and I was ready to take on the world and he did it and I did it and I had been involved with the B'nai B'rith organization I'd done some tours to both the US and to Israel and through friends of friends I was introduced to somebody else who had just moved to the city and she said come to the Sephardic Education Center the sec for a lecture and i said the sec i'm Ashkenaz i'm not going to a Sephardic thing no no no no please come please come please come and lo and behold that's where I got introduced to a whole new world for me the Sephardic community of New York and later on I married the then president Vivian and the rest of our love story is is a long one and a beautiful one it's so nice so so when we got married I said we need to get a host test trolley and she said what and I said we've never heard of this in the end at that time no it really wasn't anywhere in the u.s. at all but it had been in the UK for probably 30 to 40 years this product was made for a secular market originally by Philips Electronics you know those stereos and Wi-Fi systems so Philips made this product to keep food warm it then got bought out by the current manufacturer and it's been around for a very long time so when we got married I wanted to buy one couldn't find it in the US and so we decided to go and find the license and become the distributor for the US and Canada and we got that all organized in 1998 and we've been bringing it in since so the first thing that we decided was look my family has been using this for Shabbos forever it didn't have a Chicago or any type of vet guidance but we knew that it was good for Shabbos based on our own comfort levels but we decided that to make it work for the Jewish community here in the States we should bring it to the O you and look for some type of higher level serve occasion I think it's great a lot of the ovens ge has an O you right I think the stock hay in Baltimore also gives out hatches on certain ovens I'm just holding this up to our camera right so I mean what's kind of interesting about many of the ovens with Shabbat mode is that they still are not a hundred percent halacha Cliquot sure if there's any possibility of those ovens warming up after the door is open to get back to the maintained temperature then technically it's not a hundred percent sure what's going on there with our product it literally once you plug it in it gets hot if you open the doors it doesn't get any hotter it does not have a thermostat it does not have a light switch there's absolutely nothing to make this product get hotter or colder unless you unplug it so we brought it to the O you and we had the sclusively with Rabbi bielski Oliver Shalom and he looked and he examined and he took questions from everybody and unbelievably he was able to fight off all of the naysayers and he decided yes this is ideal for Shabbos people sort of said to him but but but rabbi you know it's harsh and therefore look his answer was if you leave anything on a hot enough surface eventually it'll cook you break an egg on a hot sidewalk eventually it'll cook but you're not gonna eat that egg it's not going to be edible and it's not going to be healthy so we we were able to really feel comfortable that our product was kosher for use on Shabbos and yontiff it is not hot enough to cook so people ask us can you leave challenge in overnight to cook and really the answer is no I I asked that question I wanted to know if I could put my Yap stick my overnight potato kugel in there and he's like nah you can leave it in there once it's cooked to stay warm overnight no problem you can leave a potato kugel in overnight you can leave you can take a potato kugel from the fridge on Shabbos morning and push it in to warm through assuming that there's nothing liquid or otherwise that's where I was gonna go with that guys it's still you can still not saying you can use it you still can't have liquid Ashkenazim hold you cannot heat liquid on Shabbat right so the overview I didn't have a different they do they did they do so there's a whole set of guidelines from the oh you and I certainly don't get in to halakha and often I'm asked you know is this kosher for this reason or that reason and I refer people back to the O you letter because it's way beyond my purview to be starting to give Halawa advice and all I can tell you is that we have many rib a.m. who use our product on our product endorse our product and are very happy with this way of keeping their food heart on Shabbos and yontiff and I should also tell you and this is one of the hard things for us to figure out from an advertising point of view our product has been safety tested for being plugged in for three days straight which is amazing because we have three they aren't of or the all the time it should be not this year but Pesach guys watch out pace are two years the next two years Pesach will be three three day yontiff so what I like about our product is that from a safety point of view this is far safer than any type of black or Plus or anything else that you may have and when you hear and see about the horrific fires that happen within our communities it is heartbreaking to think that a small error could cause such tragedy and potentially loss of life our product is safety tested if a shelf was to burn out the worst that happens is the Shelf stops working there is no fires there's no tragedy and I can't advertise on that but it is something that is so important to us as we talk about our product from a safety point of view to keep families safe right I mean you have a family yourself you want to keep themselves safe you use this product yeah and many times I get asked um oh I have young children so do I need a special safety child lock or a door lock or otherwise and the answer really is no this product gets hot for warming purposes only so if a child was to put their hand on a shelf they're gonna go out harsh but they're not going to hospital with a blister and I will tell you that it's not advisable to leave Barbie dolls inside your trolley because and I know this from firsthand experience when my daughter was young she thought it was a great place to store her Barbie doll we plugged it in we didn't know all that happened was it slowly melted the makeup didn't look so good anymore but there was no fire and she aged very fast from a safety point of view the kids are fine I knew when I first met Nick that he was going to be a great guest on table for two because he's such a great right CK is cracking up great he's amazing it's you know it's it's always fascinating and and I get this you know cuz being an Aussie um I'd love to know if the Americans listeners do you hear a difference in our accents ZK do you hear a difference a little bit guys email me near me and I'm single comms you have a difference in our access because I get asked to my Australian all the time also do I get asked affirm South African Oh British well British yes of course but yeah when I'm in Israel no one will ever say to me oh you sound American now go are you English or Australian but I'm like hello I live in America for 30 years would you still say Austria I still say I do I still send astray very much oh yeah I Wieck well I cuts I work hard on that but always joke around this how I got my job because I sound in Australia come in Miriam invited me to do this show different accent um you know it when we met it was you know we spoke about that it's called VY Kron which is an acronym of my wife's name Vivian Braun VI k ro n not vikon it's VY know what a good spike you called it vikrum vikrum vikrum I could have Vic run but it's Vikon yeah um they they kind of rebranded the name for themselves right and we changed the name from you know in the UK it's called host s trolley we sort of felt host s was sort of an antiquated name for America and it wouldn't really work so we called it a buffet cars and it seemed to resonate better with the US market so it's now called the micron buffet cart you know people were seeing this on my Instagram yes and when you came over and you bought me mine I'm to the house people were my Instagram was on fire people had a million questions they were asking questions about it all they had it or their grandmother had it in England or South Africa and there were there's been a lot of curiosity we are gonna put up a link I'm gonna put it up we would give it to you now or I'm gonna also put up on my Instagram and on my Facebook and stuff and we're gonna do a Naomi Nachman special price and we're gonna leave that up all year and you're gonna get some nice discount if you follow the hot link from Naomi's and that's why I was saying was you know the hot seat because we're talking about item exactly I'm physically hot and hot amazing so I was able to put in yesterday I made dinner I tested it out I put a ton of things in there put in the french fries great you think french fries would go soggy veggie not go soggy and the pizza with a meat inside like we had with knife last week delicious amazing attempt on the bread and it was still crispy just saw my Instagram you saw me do that I loaded it up and I can't wait to load it up for yontiff it also comes I'm just gonna show for those who are watching it comes with three glass pyrex dishes that have got like a spot for it it's like a groove for these dishes and you put it in on top and it heats up nicely this is and I thought when when we met and I'm like this is so perfect for yontiff I want you in the beforee on serve cuz I think people really need to be able to order this Shabbos yontiff circus coming up you can't put it in your sucker you told me I would rather that it wasn't left outside I mean can it be wheeled out to the sucker during collar mode yeah of course but to leave it out for two or three days with potentially rain and you not so ideal so but I think you know we're slipping up and down like my kitchen is up a flight of stairs oh my sucker is I'm gonna bring mine to the den and I'm gonna leave it plugged in the den and just go from there it is absolutely like a fantastic item to have it looks like a piece of furniture so it can match your house yeah so you don't realize that this is like looking at it okay do you need one of these so that comes it comes in four different colors at the wood effect carts and then we have a higher level line which are the real wood units and much more expensive but looks like a piece of furniture functionally the same size-wise inside exactly the same but they look like a finished piece of furniture which is this there you go little fancier and I by the way if I'm going back to the pictures it's the the top slide open yeah so you can open it and close it it's very neat looking my husband likes things neat and this is very very very neat and you can you would say that your mom puts her dishes inside your dishes should be warm so look the idea is that these units are designed for tableware so you don't just have to use your pots pans and aluminum although of course that's fine but this is designed for China and Pyrex and glass in fact anything that doesn't melt is absolutely fine to go into this we've often done takeout and taken the plastic put it on a dinner plate and put it inside the unit just just one till you're ready but you know my mother puts her her table plates into the unit in a stack and therefore she's taking hot food on to hot plates onto the table my wife doesn't do that we do a family-style very European do it like your mom like my mother we could we just talk a little bit cuz I know everyone's gonna ask what was it like growing up in Ireland as a as a Jew so growing up in Ireland for me it was normal living we didn't realize the rest of the world may not be like that the community when I was very young was probably about 5,000 strong Jews have been in Ireland since the 1500 s my people came in the 1750s in one side and the 1890s on the other um Europe no well sort of so on my mother's father's side were version who knew I have an ancestor that isn't great Nick and I live in Great Neck so my mother's father's side and David Shoshone made a trek from Iran from his name a Shoshone that's shoeshine Hamid on Purim story here to Amsterdam and he brought his wife Bella and children and then they moved outside Amsterdam to a small town called as well eeeh and they lived there and then his grandson became a merchant and he traveled to Ireland in the 1750s and met Jewish community and state my mother's mother's family Lithuania and he's got one of those tremendous stories where his father was taken away by his by the Cossacks his mother remarried that man was arrested and he walked from a small town all the way across Europe about 1,200 kilometers took a boat from Hamburg to England probably on his way to Ellis Island but Ellis Island sounds very similar to Ireland and he arrived in Dublin not knowing any English he had Jews synagogue and rabbi he found his way to the community and he said he'd like to be a Hassan and they looked at them and said every boy from the Haim wants to be a Hassan he got taken in by a family many years later he married their eldest daughter Leia and they went on to have 11 children adopted a nice so there was 12 of them bees my grandmother was number nine and they were a from family so lunch was two sittings every day and that family came home an Asian shifts and my great-grandfather god bless him he he came with nothing and he became a very prominent businessman he owned theaters and cinemas his one of his sons Louis Elliman and became an impresario in the theatre world and he traveled out to Hollywood and in fact I'm working with one of my mom's cousins to put up a website at the moment called Louis Elliman and it's about his life as an impresario with Judy Garland and Jimmy Cagney and Jimmy Stewart and when they were all kids traveling to Ireland and going on on stage and that's going up as a history did I tell who's gonna be a great guest fascinating we need another hour we need you back here well we can arrange it we can arrange it okay guys why crime you need this in your house I don't you see I'm always talking about with great passion everyone with about all my guests I love everything this is a necessity kay is like grinning from ear to ear he sees and he's seen everyone we are so impressed we're even over our hour just so impressed by the Vikon and and having you as a guest that was incredible God what's the link one more time before we sign up so you're gonna go to micron comm VI k ro n comm slash Naomi - AK man and that's your landing page and we've got the special pricing right there for now me okay amazing all right guys this is an incredible show thank you one hour just went by so fast okay we have an incredible show coming up next week um thank you so much for listening to table for two in there me now that I'm single network we have music sponsored by our friends at get him right up until left benching wishing everybody a shabbat shalom [Music] [Applause]