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Community Israel Bans Gruesome Shackle And Hoist Slaughterhouse Method Imports
Israel is Ending “Shackle and Hoist” Imports. The United States must follow suit. What is the price of consuming kosher meat? Is it a means to achieve a level of Godliness here on Earth, or is it the violent perpetuation of cruelty and needless pain on innocent creatures? The contemporary response can only be a…
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Community Why Are Most Kosher Restaurants So Terrible?
Editor’s Note: Since publication on May 16, 2017, this piece has sparked many heated and thoughtful discussions online. In the coming days, we’ll be featuring several responses from readers and Jewish communal leaders alike. To pitch your own take, send us an email. An abandoned hostess stand greets you. Delivery orders are piled high on…
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Fast Forward WATCH: In Minnesota, Kosher Cookies Served By The Bucket
Kosher fair fare? It sounds unlikely, but at the Minnesota State Fair, family owned area business Sweet Martha’s serves warm cookies by the bucket and ice cold milk to hungry visitors. Area chef and TV personality Andrew Zimmern says the cookies are so good, he eats “about a bucket and a half a day.” Watch:
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Opinion How Tasting Bacon On Pizza Changed This Ex-Hasid For Life
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Kosher kosher kosher! That refrain lingered in my ears loudly, even years after I left the tight-knit Hasidic community I grew up in. The necessity of keeping kosher was instilled in me in the most powerful way from a very young age. It wasn’t enough if the…
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Food Southern Kosher Barbecue Steps Up To The Smoker
The unmistakable smoky scent melted into the air — the kind of smell that sticks to your hair and clothes and refuses to leave. That’s barbecue. More specifically, that’s barbecue at the Atlanta Kosher BBQ Festival, an event I attended in 2016 and in which my father, Eric Solomon, competed. May is National Barbecue Month…
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Fast Forward Is Bacon Kosher?
Almost everyone knows that bacon is forbidden under kosher laws, but a rogue group of rabbinic scholars is challenging this assumption, according to a recent article in Haaretz. Dr. Robert Gnuse, a professor in the Religious Studies Department at Loyola University, argues that the kosher and clothing rules found in the Book of Leviticus (where…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Slams 92nd Street Y For Serving Non-Kosher Food At Gala
A little-known rabbi has launched a media assault against the venerable 92nd Street Y for serving a “kosher style” meal at its May fundraising gala. In a full-page ad in the latest issue of the New York Jewish Week, Rabbi Sholtiel Lebovic issued a “COMMUNITY ALERT AND PROTEST!!!” against the major Manhattan Jewish community center,…
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Fast Forward Fidget Spinners Ruled Kosher For Shabbat
Rabbis at the leading Israeli center for Jewish law and technology have given a kosher stamp of approval for kids to use popular hand-held spinner toys on the Sabbath. The Scientific Institute of Technology in Jerusalem, which both reviews and creates technology in accordance with Jewish legal codes, issued a ruling on the use of…
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