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Fast Forward Barcelona Van Terror Attack Kills 13 Near Kosher Restaurant
A van crashed into dozens of people near a kosher restaurant in the center of Barcelona on Thursday and Spanish media said at least 13 people were killed. Police said several people were injured and described the incident on Twitter as a “massive crash.” The incident took place outside Maccabi, a kosher restaurant in the…
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Fast Forward Will Swiss Lawmakers Vote To Ban Imports Of Kosher Meat?
(JTA) – Lawmakers in Switzerland are set to vote on a bill proposing to outlaw the import of meat from ritual slaughter of animals, which is already illegal in the Alpine country. The bill, which was submitted in June by Matthias Aebischer, a federal lawmaker for the Social-Democratic Party of Switzerland – the country’s second-largest…
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Food WATCH: Learn How To Make 2 Perfect Beet Salads (In Yiddish!)
I hate beets. Even though I have some Russian blood through my mother’s side, I have never really gotten the appeal. Sure, they’re gorgeous to look at. Sure, they’re fun to cook with because they stain your hands like you’re a victim of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But delicious? No. However, this video by the…
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Food Is This Meme On Kashrut Symbols Funny? Forward Editors Weigh In
Someone who shall remain nameless sent this meme to me today. I don’t know where it’s from or who made it [update: I was just informed that this meme originated from a Modern Orthodox meme Facebook page called “Torah U’Memeda”], but it states that one should “take some time to learn different kosher symbols before…
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Food WTF: Is Shark Kosher?
A day ahead of the start of Shark Week, a couple of chums in New Jersey made history this weekend by catching the largest shark in the state’s history, a 926-pound shortfin mako shark. Though it won’t count as a state record because it took so many men to bring the shark aboard the boat,…
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Fast Forward Jamaica’s First Kosher Restaurant Serves Spicy Jerk Cuisine
(JTA) — Jamaica has its first kosher restaurant. Kosher Hot Spot, run by Chabad of Jamaica, will serve the island nation’s famous jerk cooking in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet marinated with a hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice. The eatery, which opened last week, is located on Montego Bay’s “hip strip,” which is home…
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Food How An Orthodox Mom Made Marijuana A Mitzvah
Selling cannabis edibles is hardly the typical job for anyone, let alone an Orthodox Jew. But that’s exactly what Shifra Klein, a mom of four and member of Los Angeles’s Ultra-Orthodox Lubavitch community, does. In fact, before she became a producer of kosher edibles with her company Mitzva Herbal Co., she used cannabis to treat…
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Fast Forward Chicago’s Wrigley Field Going Kosher
(JTA) — Kosher hot dogs are coming to Wrigley Field, the home of the 2016 World Series champion Chicago Cubs. A kosher food stand will open up at the 103-year-old ballpark on Friday featuring Romanian hot dogs, Romanian Polish sausages, pretzels and drinks, Tablet magazine first reported. A subsidiary of the Chicago-based catering company Danziger…
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