This is the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
Kosher
The Latest
-
Life Big Brother: Kashrut Edition
Israel is a spiritual place — a place where many say they can always feel God watching over them. Thanks to two newly proposed virtual monitoring initiatives — a virtual kosher supervisor and cemetery guard — God may not be the only one watching. The Chief Rabbi of Beersheva, Yehuda Deri (brother of former Shas…
-
Life This Week in the World of Kosher
What goes into making food kosher? The debate over this question has recently raged in America after the poor working conditions at the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse were exposed. The new Magen Tzedek certification has proposed that kosher food follow certain labor and environmental standards, but many Orthodox rabbis have disputed whether kosher certification can encompass…
-
Life From Heroin Chic to Chicken Soup Heroine
According to newspapers in Britain, Kate Moss has gone kosher-style — in the preparation of food, if not in its consumption. An article in the Daily Mirror suggests that the waifish supermodel was inspired to go kosher-style by Stasha Palos — she is the stepdaughter of her pal Sir Philip Green (the billionaire businessman) and…
-
Life ‘Thin Mints, the Rabbi Said, Are His Favorite Girl Scout Cookie’
News flash: The kosher-certification symbol was inadvertently omitted from boxes for Thin Mints Girl Scout cookies, leading to at least a little bit of confusion. This morsel of news comes to my attention not via Kosher Today, but rather from this Sunday’s New York Times, which devoted a whole news article to the tasty tidbit….
-
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….
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
- 2
Culture At Eurovision, Israel’s near triumph shows the limits of tolerance
- 3
Opinion I run The Jewish Theological Seminary. Here’s the real story about President Isaac Herzog speaking at our commencement
- 4
Opinion The profound internal contradiction that could spell doom for Hillel
In Case You Missed It
-
News The Black Jewish experience, and Black-Jewish relations, take center stage on Fifth Avenue
-
Yiddish אַ רעפֿעראַט אויף ייִדיש אין מינכן פֿונעם ליטעראַטור־פֿאָרשער נתן כּהן A Yiddish lecture in Munich by literature scholar Nathan Cohen
די „שלום־עליכם לעקציע“ וועט מען קענען הערן אויפֿן אָרט אָדער דורך דער אינטערנעץ.
-
Fast Forward Hundreds of Jewish leaders call on Israeli ambassador to apologize for attack on J Street
-
Culture Despite what (Ashkenazi) tradition says, not everyone eats dairy on Shavuot