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News Bitcoin’s Bad Week: Currency Crashed, Stolen — and Declared Unkosher
The global value of the Bitcoin — a digital currency invented in 2008 — has dropped nearly 30% in the last two days. The crash was likely caused by revelations that hackers stole 119,756 bitcoins — worth about $65 million at present prices — from the computer system of Bitfinex, a Bitcoin exchange based in…
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Food Did Jerry Nadler Cut Convention Line for Kosher Pastrami Sandwiches?
While Hillary Clinton works to get out ahead of Donald Trump in the presidential race, Rep. Jerry Nadler apparently had another epic contest on his mind: the battle for kosher deli sandwiches at the Democratic National Convention. The liberal Manhattan stalwart bypassed a 30-minute wait on Tuesday to procure two pastrami sandwiches from Kosher Grill,…
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Community Serving Kosher Food to the Hungry DNC Masses
Though food options abound at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Mordy Siegal is committed to providing convenient kosher food to the hungry masses. At the Wells Fargo Center, Kosher Grill is humming. Proprietor Mordy Siegal of Chicago said the stand, offering Polish sausages, hot dogs and other meat entrees, fed 10% of the entire…
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Food Worried About Chicken Welfare? This Surprising Ally Is Too
Animal rights advocates across the country, rejoice! Perdue, one of the largest producers of chickens for eating in the United States, has announced a four-part plan to move the company towards humane practices. Though Purdue is not a kosher poultry company, its new plan is surprisingly aligned with many Jewish values. The kosher meat industry…
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Fast Forward Jewish Triple Murderer Demands Kosher Food on Death Row
— A Reform Jewish death row prisoner in Kentucky is suing the penitentiary where he is incarcerated for kicking him out of the state’s kosher food program. In a lawsuit filed last week in federal court, William Harry Meece claims that he is being unfairly penalized for eating rotisserie chicken that had not been certified…
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Food Kosher Foods Go Missing in Vermont
A wide variety of kosher foods have disappeared from grocery shelves in Vermont after the state’s strict GMO labeling law went into effect July 1. At least one supermarket, in the capital city of Burlington, explained that it could no longer offer certain kosher products because their manufacturers did not update their packaging to comply…
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Food Kosher at the Convention
As the Republican National Convention winds down, it’s safe to say that some of what went down wasn’t exactly kosher. But the food was a different story. A pop-up from Chabad is supplying kosher-keeping conventioneers with eats from Chef Dave’s Catering, a kosher catering business based in suburban Beachwood. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are being…
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Fast Forward Kosher Market in Boston Suburb of Brookline Shut After 2-Alarm Blaze
BOSTON – A two-alarm fire has shuttered a major kosher supermarket in Brookline, Massachusetts, home to Jewish residents, synagogues and Jewish businesses. The cause of the fire at The Butcherie was careless disposal of a cigarette behind the shop, in the rear storage area which was used mostly for paper products, the Boston Globe reported. The…
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