‘Everyone and their bubbie is here’: a lively Jewish Sabbath at a Palestinian restaurant in Brooklyn

Ayat, which has faced hate since 7 October, fed a packed room of people dancing, praying and breaking challah bread

On Friday night in Brooklyn, the kitchen of the Palestinian restaurant Ayat brought out platter after platter of stewed lamb and piles of delicate rice for a line of people wrapped past the grocery next door.

Everyone and their bubbie is here," a graduate student said, bumping into friends from leftist, progressive, and queer communities.