Japan and Israel Meet Cute at Brooklyn’s Shalom Japan

When I first saw that there was a restaurant named Shalom Japan, I thought it was a gimmick; I envisioned cartoon rabbis eating sushi (which would still be pretty great). But the Brooklyn restaurant Aaron Israel and Sawako Okochi own and operate is much more thoughtful; it is a statement of a true American restaurant, and what happens when two people from different cultures meet in America and open a restaurant together. ...