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Anyone who could unify / conquer all of Europe could do it. Britain (and maaaaybe France) could also do it if they had incorporated their colonial empires instead of extricating from them during decolonization.

I can't believe I forgot to mention carp! Yeah, that features in Jewish cuisine. Gefilte fish? Carp.

A Central or Eastern European Muslim society's cuisine would probably look a lot like premodern Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine. Instead of pigs, Ashkenazi Jews ate (and still eat) poultry (chickens and geese), mutton (lamb/sheep, and goat), beef, and fish. A Muslim society would eat all of those...

POD: Israel takes Latrun, beats the Jordanian army in the Battle for Jerusalem, and advances to the Jordan River. When the '48 armistice agreements are signed, Egypt keeps Gaza as OTL but the Jordanians get nothing. How does the conflict proceed? Presumably the Nakba is worse, as it now also...

Rome also had more sophisticated glassworking techniques than Han Dynasty China did, I'm pretty sure.

And Jewish farmers. Read the YIVO article I linked above.

Buy food from whom, dude. https://yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Agriculture

Or Jewish Jamaica, since it was (I think) 20% Jewish at one point during this period.

Sure; but in my experience as a religious Jew, kashrut just isn't restrictive enough to prevent agricultural life. What do you think all the Jews in the Pale of Settlement did, starve to death in their shtetl farms?

Yeah. That's why I said above that I can see a state (or small Caribbean island) going Jewish, but not the whole continent.

I can't think of a single commonly-eaten domesticated farm animal in the West, except for pigs, that isn't kosher. (Horses aren't commonly eaten in the West so I'm not counting them.) Most of the farm animals humans have domesticated have cloven hooves and chew their cud, or are non-predatory...

While you're right about farming, you're wrong about kashrut. Jewish religious food taboos are very similar to Islamic ones, and are not particularly specialized to being a minority urban population. The only non-working farm animal that Christian Europeans and Americans eat which Jews do not is...

It's less ASB than you think, A significant pirate force of Sephardi Jews sought to harass and harm the Spanish and Portuguese during this time, in retaliation for the Inquisition; the British and Dutch gladly issued them letters of marque and reprisal. Additionally, huge numbers of Sephardi...

I don't think we really know what the "causes" of the Greek Awakening were. It was part of the so-called Axial Age, which is still being studied and debated. So until we can isolate roughly what causes that movement in Greece (and the related religious and philosophical movements that happened...

Finding ways to make alt-Jesus appear in every timeline is borderline ASB. If Judea was sovereign at the time, there wouldn't be a major Messianic movement wherein the Jewish populace expected some kind of magical scholar-warlord to save them. No expectation of an imminent Messiah means no...

Like I said above: they were Hellenized Jews and didn't see a contradiction there. The Maccabean rebellion wasn't so much in opposition to Hellenism as it was a fight between two different groups of Hellenized Jews over how Hellenized the Jewish people should be, and the less-Hellenized faction...

Why? How?

That would make sense based on what I remember, but I really think I'm missing key information on the political interplay between the Hasmoneans, the Temple-centric Sadducees, and the populist Pharisees. In fact, I think that the Sadducees became the "pro-Hellenism" faction because of...

At the end of his life, John Hyrcanus gave secular authority to his widow and the High Priesthood to his eldest son Judah Aristobulus I the Philhellene. Aristobulus wasn't happy with that arrangement and threw his mother and four brothers into prison to usurp their secular power. So a potential...

The Hasmoneans were Hellenized Jews and didn't really see a contradiction there; they maintained good relations with both Rome and Ptolemaic Egypt. The legacy of forced conversion under the Hasmoneans is mixed. While John Hyrcanus forced the Idumeans to convert, there is no historical evidence...