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Fast Forward Texas Ex-Con Drops Kosher Food Lawsuit After Release
(JTA) — A former Texas prison inmate who won the right to receive kosher food and have it provided to all observant Jewish inmates in the state dropped his 12-year-old federal lawsuit against the prison system. Max Moussazadeh, 40, was serving a 75-year prison sentence for serving as a lookout during a 1993 murder when he filed…
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Fast Forward Belgium’s Flanders Region Plans To Limit Kosher Slaughter
(JTA) — A cabinet minister in Belgium’s Flemish Region announced that a majority of lawmakers have decided to impose new limitations on ritual slaughter of animals in 2019. Ben Weyts, the animal welfare minister of the Flemish Region — one of three autonomous states that make up the federal kingdom of Belgium – on Thursday…
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Food Kosher Pizza War Simmers On After Brooklyn Rabbis Rule
This article has been updated with new information since its original publication. There’s a kosher pizza war being waged in the heart of Hasidic Brooklyn — and a Jewish religious court has laid down a Solomonic decision about how the pie is going to be sliced. Basil Pizza & Wine Bar is an established gourmet…
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Yiddish World WATCH: Matzo brei like Bubbe (or Zayde) used to make
Some have it sweet but this one is savory!
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Fast Forward Brandeis Physicist And Wine-Lover Invents Drip-Free Bottle
Brandeis physicist Daniel Perlman loves wine, but hates wine stains. So he put himself to studying — for three years — how wine flows out of wine bottles, Daniel Perlman and has finally figured out how to prevent wine from dripping down the side of the bottle. Perlman’s invention is simple, consisting of a small…
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Fast Forward Paraguay Orders More Humane Kosher Slaughter After Forward Expose
(JTA) — The government of Paraguay will move to require more humane ways of kosher slaughter following a Forward expose about questionable practices. Slaughterhouses will have to stop using the shackle-and-hoist method of slaughter and instead use the method of rotating pens, which is seen as more humane, The Jerusalem Post reported. The international organization…
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Fast Forward British Chickens Keep Kosher For Passover
You are what you eat. But if you’re lucky, that chicken you pick up for Passover dinner won’t have any chametz in it. According to the London Board of Shechita, a group that oversees kosher slaughter in Britain, poultry that is sold for consumption during the holiday has been fed a non-grain diet in the…
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Fast Forward Did You Know? Chickens Eat Kosher For Passover, Too
For Passover, observant Jews abstain from eating any leavened foods, or chametz, for eight days. As it turns out — chickens and turkeys in Jewish slaughterhouses eat kosher for Passover too. “All poultry sourced for Pesach has to be fed on a non-wheat feed diet,” a spokesperson for the London Board of Schechita told the…
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