Saprir’s brisket recipe is below ... It always yields a very tender brisket. Kosher beer, butter and onions makes for an easy yet complex sauce to serve with the brisket.

If you're in doubt, consider a beautifully charred brisket ... Israeli dishes are cooked barbecue-style, there's a lot of input from there that's used in Jewish barbecue as well.

Bilitzer also said his family always made matzo ball soup during Hanukkah and brisket ... Courier Journal's extensive recipe archive that are often eaten during Jewish holidays.

He does it all himself, from the prepping to the cooking, adding his own style to the food he makes from his grandma's Jewish brisket, to the popular Jewish snack knish, to smoking his own pastrami.