{"id":30714,"date":"2016-06-15T21:58:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T03:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=30714"},"modified":"2016-06-15T21:58:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T03:58:19","slug":"chabad-rabbi-competes-on-food-networks-chopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/chabad-rabbi-competes-on-food-networks-chopped\/","title":{"rendered":"Chabad rabbi competes on Food Network&#8217;s &#8216;Chopped&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (JTA) \u2014 A Chabad rabbi is one of four clergy members competing in an upcoming episode of the Food Network\u2019s \u201cChopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an already taped episode that airs June 21, Rabbi Hanon Hecht, a Chabad emissary in upstate Rhinebeck, New York, appears with a monk, nun and priest, according to Lubavitch.com, the website of the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought my participation would be a fabulous platform for raising awareness about keeping kosher in this evolving food market,\u201d Hecht, 34, told Lubavitch.com. \u201cKosher presents a unique challenge that many other religions don\u2019t face in that there are not only prohibitions on what we eat, but also on how we prepare our food. The show was very accommodating. I was very grateful and touched that they were sensitive to my needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hecht teaches about kashrut at the Culinary Institute of America and, calling himself the \u201cSix-Minute Rabbi,\u201d offers one-on-one short Torah classes for businesspeople in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that I know how to take a tremendous amount of knowledge and condense it into six minutes certainly helped\u201d in the timed cooking competition, in which contestants have a limited amount of time to cook full meals using pre-selected ingredients, he said. \u201cI was able to pack an hour\u2019s worth of cooking into 30 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear how well Hecht performed in the competition or what he cooked, as all details of the show are under wraps until it airs.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Chabad%20rabbi%20competes%20on%20Food%20Network%27s%20%27Chopped%27\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139],"tags":[7890,7891,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30715,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30714\/revisions\/30715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}