This is the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
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Life Kosher Food — Made in China
Woody Allen once said, “My view of reality is that it has always been a grim place to be … but it’s the only place you can get Chinese food.” In this week’s New Yorker, writer Patricia Marx tags along with rabbis/kashrut supervisors working in China — the fastest-growing exporter of kosher goods on earth….
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Life A Kosher ‘Shield of Justice’
The Conservative movement’s Hekhsher Tzedek Commission has released its newly designed logo for their proposed “Justice Certification” seal that they are proposing to affix to kosher foods that meet certain labor, environmental, and corporate standards. While the merits of the new logo (which, to this reporter, is a bit migraine-inducing) are up for debate, the…
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Life Agriprocessors’ Bi-Coastal Critics
Agriprocessors — the kosher meat giant that has been in the national spotlight ever since its Iowa slaughterhouse was the target of a massive federal immigration raid in May — is taking flak from critics east and west. The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe both published editorials yesterday assailing Agriprocessors for its treatment…
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News Workers Speak Out at Nation’s New Leading Kosher Producer
Luis Molina lost part of his middle finger to a 2,000-pound food mixer while working at what is now the country’s largest producer of kosher beef, Alle Processing. Molina, 23, said that the accident, which happened when a fellow employee flipped a power switch, was not a surprise, given that he and others on his…
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News Keeping Kosher in Denver
Keeping kosher may be a challenge for religious delegates attending this week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver. There are kosher options at catered events held in the Colorado Convention Center, where many daytime panels, forums and caucuses are held, as well as at the Pepsi Center, location of the primetime convention program. But for average…
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Life The Jewish Press Leans (a Little Bit) Left for a Change
The Jewish Press, the nationally distributed, Brooklyn-based Orthodox weekly, can be counted on to lean pretty far to the right when it comes to both politics and religion. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised by a pair of remarkably progressive (by contemporary Orthodox standards) opinion articles on two hot-button religious controversies that were published last…
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Life America’s Biggest Kosher Plant and Largest-Ever Immigration Raid
Agriprocessors is racking up the records. Its Postville, Iowa, facility was already America’s biggest kosher meat plant. Now, it also can claim to be the site of what federal officials say is the largest immigration raid in U.S. history. The JTA has some more on the raid. Also, check out the extensive coverage from the…
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Life Jackie Mason Has Cow Over ‘Kosher Cheeseburger’
Talia’s Steakhouse on New York’s Upper East Side has started serving a “Kosher Parve Cheeseburger,” made with a beef patty and tofu cheese, but according to the New York Post, some observant Jews aren’t salivating over the prospect — including Jackie Mason. “I would never entertain the thought of eating cheese — real or fake…
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