This is the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
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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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Fast Forward Mexican Jewish Teen Challenged To Cook Non-Kosher Food On TV Reality Show
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A 13-year-old Jewish girl who cooked pork during a primetime reality show on Mexican TV said “my grandfather is going to kill me.” Batia Bresca was clearly uncomfortable cooking non-kosher food during the premiere of the Mexican edition of “MasterChef Junior 2017” last week and invoked Jewish law when a referee asked…
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Food Grateful Bread — New Israeli-Kosher Bakery Gets Warm Welcome In San Francisco
On December 25, 2016, the first day of Hanukkah, Maureen Krantz and her family made a special trip into the city from their home in Berkeley just to try the Israeli-style sufganiyot at Frena, San Francisco’s highly anticipated new kosher bakery. “We had been hearing about it for weeks,” said Krantz, who is director of…
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Fast Forward Searching For Kosher Food Where The Soviets Made A Jewish State
Observant Jews in far-flung locales face difficulty in getting kosher food, but perhaps nowhere is the challenge more acute than in Siberia’s Birobidzhan region, where a community of a few thousand — the remnant of a failed Soviet experiment in creating a Jewish mini-state – is trying to procure a steady supply of kosher meat…
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Food How Cotton Entered The Food Supply
In 2015, some 50 years after concerns were first raised about a possible link between trans fats and heart attacks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruled that partially hydrogenated oils, the primary source of trans fats in processed foods, are no longer “generally recognized as safe” in human food. This action is expected…
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Fast Forward Ben And Jerry’s Launches Three New Vegan ‘Ice Cream’ Flavors
Ben and Jerry’s added three vegan ice cream flavors to their lineup this month, increasing the options available to those who keep kosher or who can’t eat dairy. The new flavors, Cherry Garcia, Caramel Almond Brittle, and Coconut Seven Layer Bar, join the original lineup of four flavors introduced last year. All seven of the…
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Fast Forward Tennessee Wife Killer Sues For Better Kosher Food
(JTA) — A prison inmate in Tennessee filed an over 200-page lawsuit alleging that the prison system is trying to force him to break the Jewish laws of kashrut by providing him with substandard kosher meals. Perry March, who has served 10 years of a 56-year sentence for the 1996 murder of his wife (though…
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