A Sweet Coffee from a Moroccan Family to Break the Yom Kippur Fast

“Living in my household was almost like you were still living in Morocco,” Andre Fedida explains. When he was five-years-old, in 1959, his family moved to New York City, but “once you entered the door, we spoke French exclusively. It was a very traditional Moroccan upbringing,” he adds. They listened to Arabic and French music and the dishes his mother Renee cooked were always Moroccan — couscous she let dry in the sun in the backyard, chicken tagines, lamb and beef kofta kebabs wrapped around celery, and her dafina, that cooked slowly on Shabbat evenings and throughout Yom Kippur. 

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