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Fast Forward Why You Can’t Keep Kosher In Space
Kashrut-observant children who dream of becoming astronauts may have to rethink their plans. NASA’s Space Food Systems Laboratory, which develops, produces, and packages food for every American astronaut, only has one packaging facility, the lab’s manager, Vickie Kloeris, explained to Space.com. This means that foods that may have otherwise been kosher would come in contact…
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Food Making The Case For Kosher Wine
In “A Feminist Case Against Kosher Wine,” writer Liya Rechtman has taken an antiquated approach to Judaism while ignoring the rapid change occurring in the Jewish community today. Her advice not to drink kosher wine during Passover or any other time shows a powerful disconnect with what kosher wine truly represents. We can look at…
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Community Is Kosher Meat Always Moral?
My grandfather was a butcher. And though he has long since passed, I recall his passion for service and his love of animals, even though he thought that his obligation to the world was to use their flesh as food. The juxtaposition of a benign, kindly man flaying the flesh of an animal, their blood…
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Life A Feminist Case Against Kosher Wine
This Passover, Jewish women and the men who care about us have to stop drinking kosher wine. This is the year to take kosher wine off our Seder tables and think critically about what it means to consume with an eye towards gender equity and liberation. If you travel to almost any winery in the…
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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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