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Food Ruffled Feathers Over Wegmans’ Kosher Labeling
A New Jersey lawyer is crying “fowl” over food-handling practices at a Cherry Hill branch of supermarket giant , calling its kosher labeling “misleading and fraudulent.” Adam Rosen alleges that the chain is unwrapping kosher chickens, cooking them in unsupervised ovens, seasoning the birds and then repackaging them with stickers that say “kosher.” “It struck…
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Food Finally, a Kosher Restaurant With Michelin Acclaim in Paris
Simone Zanoni, head chef of Le Rafael in Paris. JTA – With 84 Michelin-certified restaurants and a combined total of 115 stars, the French capital offers a dazzling gastronomic selection to anyone willing to stomach the bill. Anyone but observant Jews, that is. For years, the kosher-keeping community has been limited to budget pizzerias or…
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Food Italy’s Parmesan Cheese Goes Kosher
Cheese lovers of the Jewish world, rejoice: the original Parmesan cheese from Italy is now available in a kosher version. The first cheese wheel, adorned with a large Star of David and the word “kosher” written on it in Hebrew, was cut open last week at the Israeli pavilion in the Milan world’s fair. Although…
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Food Dutch Authorities Recommend Banning Kosher Slaughter
The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority advised the government to ban ritual slaughter of animals, citing pain and suffering caused to them in the process. The recommendation appeared in a report by the authority’s risk assessment bureau, the NRC Handelsblad daily Friday. “Ban, from a point of view of animal welfare, the killing…
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News 57% of Us Eat Pork and 9 Other Things About American Jews
(JTA) — Do you experience feelings of peace and well-being at least once a week? Did God write the Torah? Do you eat bacon? If these questions seem a little personal, don’t fret. They’re all part of a new Pew Research Center survey on American religion released Tuesday that shows moderate declines in religious beliefs and…
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Fast Forward Federal Prisons Scratch Pork Off Menu for Inmates
Pork is officially off the menu at U.S. federal prisons. With the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, the 206,000 inmates housed in 122 federal penitentiaries are no longer being served pork products. Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, told The Washington Post on Friday that “pork has been…
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Food Russia’s Kosher Food Giant Aims for Halal Empire
Pinhas Slobodkin, center, with staff at a Moscow event serving kosher food in 2014. (JTA) — At Russia’s largest kosher food factory, owner Pinhas Slobodnik welcomes his Muslim workers with a greeting in Arabic that he pronounces in a thick Russian accent. Some 120 workers, most from the predominantly Muslim republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, are…
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Food Making Wine at the End of the World
Simon Back, who is among the fourth generation to helm Backsberg Wines & Estates, stands on his deck in Paarl, South Africa, raising a glass of Merlot with his merlot vineyards behind him. When there is very little between you and the Antarctic, making wine is a challenge. When there are relatively few Jews, making…
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