Food

The first Kosher Kitchen for Yale Graduate Students opened in the fall of 1959 in the Young Israel Synagogue, a twenty-five minute walk from campus, serving only week-night dinners. Today, the Lindenbaum Kosher Kitchen, run by Slifka Center, functions as a seamless part of the Yale University Dining System, in the middle of campus. Slifka Center serves breakfast, lunch and dinner during the week, family-style Shabbat meals, pizza and learning on Sunday, and semi-regular bagel brunches that draw over 400 students several times a semester to chow down on H&H bagels and mounds of lox.

Learn more about the Kosher Kitchen or find out what’s on the menu today.

The Kosher Kitchen is open to the public. Delicious kosher meals – a bargain.

But there’s more:

Social Action

• Sunday evenings, Slifka Center partners with New Haven’s Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen to serve dinner to those in need.
• Student activists debate the modern ethics of kashrut – asking whether social and environmental certifications should be added to halachic concerns

Education:

• Slifka’s Director of Catering works with students to host evening Cooking Minyans, bringing guest chefs from the local community to teach cooking classes that take kosher food beyond challah and cholent.*
• *Slifka also hosts regular challah baking sessions, and community members have been known to share their cholent recipes, cooking in our kitchen on Friday afternoons.
• Rabbi James Ponet, Head of Slifka Center has begun a quest (with local chefs and passionate students) to reinvent Jewish cuisine and holiday foods.