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Fast Forward ‘Clean Meat’ Could Be The Answer To Kosher Bacon
Imagine a world with kosher bacon. It may be here sooner than you think. Rabbi Gavriel Price has the difficult task of determining how the Orthodox Union should approve “clean meat,” which is meat grown in laboratories from animal cells, the New York Times reported. The Orthodox Union is one of the leading certifiers of…
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Fast Forward Israeli City’s Chief Rabbi: Caterers Aren’t Kosher If Ethiopians Make The Food
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Rabbi Moshe Havlin, the chief rabbi of the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat, reportedly said he would withdraw kosher certification from a local catering company if Ethiopian women continued to prepare the food there, unless they could prove their Jewishness. Under Orthodox Jewish law, certain foods which were completely cooked by…
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Food Putting Kosher Restaurants On The Map — Literally
How long does it take to build a map of all the kosher restaurants in NYC? For Yossi Hoffman, creator of koshermap.nyc, a compendium of all vegan, vegetarian and kosher restaurants in the New York City area, the answer was a lifetime of preparation, and two weeks of intensive work. “I want it to be…
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Fast Forward New Yorker Dies From Salmonella Outbreak In Empire Kosher Chicken
NEW YORK (JTA) — Salmonella in Empire Kosher chicken has killed one New Yorker and caused 17 illnesses in the Northeast, the Centers for Disease Control said. Eight people have been hospitalized. The outbreak of the food-borne infection in the leading kosher chicken seller has shown up in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, according to a…
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Food Kosher Empire Chicken Linked To Salmonella Outbreak
The USDA released a safety alert regarding raw chicken products produced and sold from September 2017 to June 2018. Empire Kosher chicken may be guilty of causing a possible salmonella contamination. 17 people in four states have contracted salmonella-related illnesses from kosher chicken and one person has died, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control….
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Food The Kosher Dinner Club Without A Menu
At The Musket Club, the new kosher gourmet dinner club that operates on word-of-mouth, the menu only comes at the end of the meal. The chefs want the food to be a surprise, and it often is. The food is a cornucopia of different tastes and flavors, and if you follow the three musketeers behind…
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Fast Forward Tunisian Jew Barred From Getting Kosher Food In Prison
(JTA) — A Tunisian Jew who has been in prison for over a month is being denied access to kosher food, his family said. Ilan Raccah, who is his 20s, has been held since July 10 at the prison of Mornaguia, a western suburb of the capital Tunis, the Kountrass news site reported Sunday. The…
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Food Where To Find Kosher Haggis — Yes, It Exists.
Haggis is the national delicacy of Scotland and it’s not exactly known for its Jewish appeal. It’s a type of pudding made up of the liver, heart and lungs of a sheep, mixed with beef and oatmeal, seasoned with onion, cayenne pepper and other spices, then packed into a sheep’s stomach to be boiled. On…
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