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Food Dutch Debate Over Kosher Slaughter Ends
The Dutch Senate formally scrapped legislation to ban ritual slaughter in the Netherlands. Fifty-one of the 75 senators voted Tuesday not to ratify the law passed last year by the parliament. The vote is the final word in a protracted public debate about animal welfare, religious freedom and integration that began in September 2008, when…
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Food Ready, Set, Smoke: Kosher BBQ Competitions Heat Up
This past Sunday, I found myself standing in a synagogue parking lot, resplendent in bright yellow tights, red shorts, a red shirt and a yellow satin cape and a rack of ribs emblazoned across my chest. But, I didn’t stand out as much as you might imagine. I was at the first annual Long Island…
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Food Kosher Slaughter Escapes Ban in Netherlands
This story is cross-posted from JTA. Dutch Agriculture Minister Hans Bleker signed an agreement with Jewish and Muslim religious leaders and slaughterhouses that will prevent a ban on ritual slaughter. Under the agreement signed Tuesday, animals can continue to be ritually slaughtered as long as they lose consciousness within 40 seconds of their throats being…
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Food Kosher Traveler: Blending Traditions in Haifa
Built on Mount Carmel overlooking the Mediterranean coastline is northern Israel’s capital city and culinary hot spot, Haifa. Unlike Jerusalem where there are distinct Jewish, Arab and Christian quarters, the members of the five religions of Haifa (including two sects of Islam) for the most part peacefully coexist and often intermingle. The diverse population is…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Kosher BBQ Contest; Israel Wine Fests
18 teams of BBQ competitors will fire up their grills to compete in The First Annual Long Island Kosher BBQ Championship on June 10th. [Long Island Kosher BBQ Championship] If you’re spending the summer in the Holy Land, check out these wine events. [Israel Wine] Starting a bagel company is hard stuff. San Francisco-based pop-up…
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Food The Kitchen Table Closes for Good
“Oh no! Please don’t go!” exclaimed one of The Kitchen Table’s 1,700 friends as he read the restaurant’s announcement on Facebook that it is closing on June 3. Open since the spring of 2009, the upscale kosher fleishig dining establishment in Mountain View, California will shut its doors for good after its dinner service on…
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Food When in Rome, Zuckerberg and Chan Eat Kosher
The Jew and the Carrot doesn’t understand why people are so surprised that a guy who wears hoodies and jeans day in-day out is thrifty when it comes to food. Nonetheless, the fact that that Mark Zuckerberg and his new bride Priscilla Chan are anything but upscale foodies seems to have some commentators irked. We,…
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Food Veal, Lamb, Duck — It’s All Bacon to Them
Yitzchak Bernstein and Eitan Esan have a real thing for bacon. One might think this would be a problem for a couple of Orthodox kosher caterers, but it isn’t. In fact, it is their obsession with this taboo food that is bringing them and their new Oakland, California-based business, Epic Bites, a lot of attention….
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