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THE JEWISH LEDGER • Thursday, May 29, 2014 • Page 3
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Mazel tov to Carly & Joshua
Payne, children of Jamey &
Marlene Payne, on their B’nai
Mitzvot, which will be celebrated on Saturday morning, May
31, at Temple Sinai, 363 Penfield Rd.
Congratulations to Zachary
Micah Till Tabachnikoff, son
of Rabbi Debbi Till & Rabbi
Jonathan Tabachnikoff, on his
Bar Mitzvah, which will be celebrated on Saturday, May 31, at
Temple Beth El, 139 S. Winton
Rd.
Zachary is in the seventh
grade at Twelve Corners Middle
School. He enjoys baseball and
hopes to be the first Jewish lefthanded catcher in Major League
Baseball someday. He is the
grandson of Annett & Stan Till,
Paula Tabachnikoff & Rabbi
Barry Tabachnikoff, z’l.
Mazel tov to Olivia Heilbronner, daughter of Lawrence Heilbronner & Laura Heilbronner,
z’l, on her Bat Mitzvah, which
will be celebrated on Saturday,
May 31, at Temple B’rith Kodesh,
2131 Elmwood Ave.
Sabra Trying to
Establish U.S.
Hummus Law
(JTA) — If the Sabra Dipping
Co. has its way, the use of chickpeas and tahini in making hummus will become U.S. law. The
hummus manufacturer, which
is co-owned by PepsiCo and the
Israel-based Strauss Group, has
filed a petition with the Food
and Drug Administration to create a standard for which dips
are considered hummus.
The standard Sabra is seeking
would mandate that hummus be
comprised primarily of chickpeas
and contain no less than 5 percent tahini. The 11-page proposal
asks that hummus be defined as
“the semisolid food prepared from
mixing cooked, dehydrated, or
dried chickpeas and tahini with
one or more optional ingredients,” according to a news release
issued Monday.
Similar standards exist for other
condiments, such as ketchup,
mustard and mayonnaise.
“As the popularity of hummus
has soared in the United States
over the past decade, the name
has been applied to items consisting primarily of other ingredients,” Sabra chief technology
officer Tulin Tuzel said in the
statement. “From black beans and
white beans to lentils, soybeans,
and navy beans, everyone wants
to call their dip ‘hummus.’”
Sabra controls about 60 percent
of the market, according to Information Resources Inc., a Chicago-based market research firm. b
Congratulations to Scott
Cooper and Mandy Bruno on
their recent engagement. Scott
is the son of Joan & Michael
Cooper and grandson of Geraldine & Sanford Appelbaum
and Marilyn Cooper. Mandy
is the daughter of James &
Trina Bruno.
Congratulations to the following members of Congregation Beth Hamedresh-Beth Israel on their recent college
graduations:
Rachael Bobb, daughter of
Paula Bobb, of Brighton, and
Mark Bobb, of Washington, DC.
Masters Degree in Special Education with honors from Simmons College. Rachael plans to
teach special needs children.
Aviva Schaffer, daughter
of Elaine & Stan Schaffer, of
Brighton. BA (Magna Cum
Laude) from the University of
Rochester with a major in International Relations as well as
an interdisciplinary major in
Arabic and the Arab World.
Acclaim to
Mark Kolko,
Jewish Senior
Life’s Chairman
of the Board, on
receiving the
Trustee of the
Year Award from LeadingAge
New York (LANY).
The LANY award program
acknowledges the best of New
York’s non-profit long-term
care, housing and services
providers and the people who
contribute their time, energy
and professionalism to the field
of aging.
Mazel tov to Kathy London
on the birth of her granddaughter Rebecca Sylvia Mecias.
Rebecca is the daughter of
Shira Faye London & Jose Armondo Mecias and is also the
granddaughter of Dennis London, Armondo Mecias and
Mabol Cerpa Martinez. b
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