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331:, including members of the "Illuminoshi", an organization of Jewish food professionals, commemorated the original banquet with a "Trefa Banquet 2.0." It was an educational event, where they listened to a professor of Jewish history talk about the original Trefa Banquet, and ate treyf dishes made by Jewish chefs, including treyf meat.
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because it did not condemn or at least denounce that terrible misdeed of that said unscrupulous caterer". Disclaiming responsibility for the menu, Wise added: "It is about time to stop that noise over the culinary department of
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