When Taylor Cheney answered the phone on Friday morning, she was exhausted — she had gone to sleep at 3 a.m. the night before after working a long shift at Yalla, the Capitol Hill restaurant she owns. That Thursday, October 12, she had decided to donate 100 percent of the restaurant’s proceeds to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, a long-standing nonprofit that provides humanitarian and medical aid to children in Gaza and throughout Palestine.
The fundraiser brought in nearly $2,400 in just five hours, but it meant that Cheney and the only other worker at Yalla’s walk-up window were slammed turning out saj wraps, meze, and atayef, a
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