This is the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
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Opinion Following Ultra-Orthodox Money Trail
You’ve already heard about the wave of violence by ultra-Orthodox zealots in Israel: grown men spitting on and cursing terrified little girls trying to walk to school; harassing women who refuse to move to the back of public buses; stoning those buses, private cars and the police, and starting full-blown riots. But did you know…
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News Sundance Town Goes Kosher
The picturesque resort town of Park City is known for many things — among them powdery snow and a prestigious independent film festival. Kosher cuisine, not so much. This may be changing. Just in time for the Sundance Film Festival, which descends on this winter hamlet each January, Canyons Resort opened the glatt kosher Bistro…
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Food Modern Japanese Cuisine Easily Goes Kosher
As a Japanese chef specializing in modern Japanese fare, Kaz Okochi of Kaz Sushi Bistro in Washington finds cooking a kosher meal fairly easy. Shellfish aside, Kaz’s Japanese cuisine relies mainly on fish and uses sauces made of soy sauce, miso and mirin, all of which can be easily converted to kosher without making too…
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Food Kosher Camp Can Help You Lose Weight
We’re a few weeks in to the New Year, and for those of us who have sworn off (again) from eating that second piece of cake, and resolved to take the stairs and park an block away, the novelty may be wearing off. Losing weight is the most common New Year’s Resolution according to the…
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Food Sundance Goes Kosher
Indie filmmakers may never have to eat treyf again. A new restaurant in Park City, Utah, just a snowball’s throw or so from the Sundance Film Festival (January 19-26) is serving up new kosher cuisine. The 85-seat restaurant, Bistro at Canyons, is described as the first kosher restaurant at a North American ski resort. There…
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The Schmooze Kosher Prison Food Not Only for Jews
Eating kosher, even in prison, is a constitutional right — not only for Jews, but also for Christians. On January 11, a three-justice panel of the California 3rd District Court of Appeals issued a ruling that overturned a lower court one that had denied Margarito Jesus Garcia kosher meals from the state’s Department of Corrections…
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Food Kosher Sex and Lure of Forbidden Fruit
You don’t need to see the movie “American Pie” to know that there’s a complicated, but very real relationship between food and sex. Earlier this month, an Islamic cleric in Europe called for a ban on women touching the seemingly innocuous banana and cucumber, for fear that foods resembling male sex organs would arouse them….
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Recipes Mixing Bowl: Hanukkah Edition, Part 2
Cook the book makes “Kosher Revolution’s” Be-All, End-All Chicken Soup. Check out the recipe. [Serious Eats] Two Jewish brothers are heating up the kitchens at some of Brooklyn’s hottest restaurants. [Jewcy] Microbrews for Hanukkah and some Jewish beer history. Bottoms Up! [NPR] The recently shorn Matisyahu shares his recipe for vegan sufganiot. [Grubstreet] Some kosher…
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