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Fast Forward Belgian Rabbi Begs EU To Fight Ritual Slaughter Ban
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The chief rabbi of Brussels urged a senior EU official to intervene to prevent Belgium’s largest region from banning ritual slaughter of animals. Rabbi Albert Guigui made the plea to Frans Timmermans, the First Vice President of the European Commission, during a rabbinical conference on Tuesday in the Netherlands, where Timmermans spoke…
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Fast Forward ACLU Sues Idaho Over Lack Of Kosher Meals In Prisons
The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho filed a suit last week against the state’s Department of Correction over the prison system’s lack of kosher food. The class action suit, led by four Jewish prisoners of various denominations, asked for a preliminary injunction to force the prisons to serve kosher meals immediately. They argue that…
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Fast Forward ‘Fake’ Kosher Cheese Leads To Criminal Charges in Canada
For the first time, the Canadian government has introduced criminal charges against a company for falsely claiming that its products were kosher. The company Creation Foods and its vice-president Kefir Sadiklar have been accused by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency of sending non-kosher cheddar cheese to Jewish summer camps in 2015 with forged documents that…
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Community Keeping Kosher Down South — But Not Necessarily By Choice
On the way home from the health clinic yesterday, my cabbie declared how much he loved his lord and savior. While delivering his Sermon on the Mount, he resembled the star of the 1971 movie Shaft—a leather cowboy hat, a skinny beard and moustache and exclaimed, “you should get in touch with Jesus to avoid…
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Food Top 10 Kosher Meat Mysteries — Solved!
Kosher has become hip in recent years, for a variety of reasons. But for those who didn’t grow up in a kosher home and may be new to the laws of kashruth, the rules can be confusing — especially when it comes to purchasing beef. Whether we’re grilling in the summer or making a heartwarming…
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Fast Forward ‘Big Pork’ Is Getting Into The Transplant Business — Is That Kosher?
Smithfield Foods, one of the nation’s largest pork suppliers, has announced that it’s forming a biosciences division that in the future might pioneer the transplantation of organs from pigs to humans. “We want to signal to the medical-device and science communities that this is an area we’re focused on — that we’re not strictly packers,”…
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Community Ritual Slaughter Bans Don’t Help Animals — They Target Jews and Muslims
Many worry that a new proposal to ban ritual slaughter in the Belgian region of Flanders is yet another attempt to mask anti-Semitism and Islamophobia with a disingenuous argument for animal welfare — and they’re right to be concerned. The draft law requires pre-slaughter electrical stunning of sheep and poultry. This proposed bans violate kosher…
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Fast Forward An End To Kosher Corruption In Israel?
Critics of the state rabbinate contend that restaurateurs who want the kosher seal of approval have only to open their wallets for the kosher inspectors in order to receive the coveted designation. Now, the rabbinate is taking steps to end the perception of corruption in its ranks by adopting a new set of standards, reported…
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