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"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast. It is hosted by ADL New York/New Jersey Director Scott Richman and focuses on ADL's efforts to fight antisemitism and hate in the United States and around the world. New York is most certainly a frontline when it comes to antisemitism and hate as the state which is consistently home to the most antisemitic incidents across the nation, as well as the site of many hate crimes and home to many extremists. The mass shooter in Buffalo a few weeks ago is one horrific example. ADL's Center on Extremism together with our partner organization - the Community Security Initiative or CSI, has just put out a major new report, entitled “Hate in the Empire State: Extremism & Antisemitism in New York, 2020-2021.” It is a first-of-its-kind look at the state of hate in New York. Its author is Rebecca Federman. She is a Threat Intelligence Analyst for CSI who is physically embedded in ADL's Center on Extremism - a really meaningful partnership between two important organizations. She was the guest on this edition of "From the Frontlines." To read the full report, visit https://www.adl.org/resources/report/hate-empire-state-extremism-antisemitism-new-york-2020-2021. This podcast originally aired as a radio show on WVOX 1460 AM.
Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of History and Acting Chair, Department of History at Yale University, chats with Rebecca Federman, Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library. Paul provides insight into 19th-century American restaurant dining based on his recent article in The New England Quarterly, "American Restaurants and Cuisine in the Mid–Nineteenth Century" (March 2011). We hear about the most popular dishes, regional differences in menus, and which dishes could make a modern-day comeback.
Do you have a dinner reservation tonight? Today, booking a table can be harder to get than tickets to a Broadway show. You love to go out to eat, but don’t want plan 30-days in advance or pay for a reservation. What do you do? Follow @LastMinuteEatin on Twitter for real-time last-minute reservations. The OpenTable + Twitter hack was created by New York entrepreneur and software engineer Jason Davis. Jason will talk about his experiment in immediate gratification and schedule free living. Also on this show, a follow-up from Episode #2 and New York Public Library’s Rebecca Federman’s recommendation to use Eat Your Books to digitally organize your cookbooks. Eat Your Books co-founder Jane Kelly talks about this unique online platform. This program was brought to you by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons. “It [@LastMinuteEatin] sort of mimics the way my behavior would work if you were looking for a table that day.” [15:00] –Jason Davis on Tech Bites
Collecting cookbooks and menus is so important to our culinary life, whether it’s for our personal memories or sharing public knowledge. This episode of Tech Bites looks at two of the country’s top culinary collections, curation and preservation in the digital age. Guests: Marvin Taylor is the Director of the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. Rebecca Federman is the Electronic Resources Coordinator and Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library. This program was brought to you by Rolling Press. “I think we live in a hybrid world now and we will for quite some time […] Researchers want both [digital and print]. They want the convenience of an e-book but they want to read the print.” [29:00] –Rebecca Federman on Tech Bites
Rebecca Federman is the Electronic Resources Coordinator and Culinary Collections Librarian at the New York Public Library. She spoke with us about the online crowdsourcing project, "What's on the Menu?"
On this episode of A Taste of the Past, Linda Pelaccio is joined in the studio by Rebecca Federman of the Culinary Collections at the New York Public Library. Today, they are discussing the NYPL’s old menu collection and the new What’s on the Menu? program. Hear about old menus from the inauguration of President McKinley to the dedication of the Statue of Liberty. Help out the NYPL by helping to digitize some of these menus to create a searchable database! Tune in to learn about some of the more obscure NYC menu items, as well as the role of midday lunch in building the restaurant business in the city. This episode has been brought to you by White Oak Pastures. “There are the everyday menus that I find very graphically beautiful and interesting. Or there are children’s menus that I find really adorable.” Restaurants are such a huge part of our social history, that to not have these documents is such a loss.” — Rebecca Federman on A Taste of the Past
Rebecca Federman, librarian, blogger, and menu aficionado, takes CHOW into the bowels of the New York Public Library, sharing stories about the librarys menu collection and its founder, Miss Frank E. Buttolph.