Rafid Rashed, the owner of Taboonia, a new Druze restaurant in the Garment District that’s currently seeking kosher certification, is a survivor of the Nova Music Festival massacre.

Until recently, the only Druze eatery in New York has Gazala’s, an Upper West Side restaurant run by Gazala Halabi. When ...

(New York Jewish Week) — Opening a kosher restaurant in New York City wasn’t always in the cards for Raif Rashed, a Druze from the village of Usfiya in northern Israel. But as Rashed, the ...