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Food Wine for Passover, Elegant Enough For All Year
Fill the Four Cups With Any Of These Crisp Whites and Rich Reds, All Under $30. Image: Thinkstock I have a soft spot in my heart for Manischewitz, the Kosher wine served at so many Sabbath dinners and Seders, because it was the first wine I ever tasted. Being allowed this wine at Passover when…
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Food The Only Kosher Deli in Denver
Joshua Horowitz, left, bought the East Side Kosher Deli in February 2015 from Michael and Marcy Schreiber, who had owned it for 17 years. Photograph by Uriel Heilman. (JTA) – Dena Ivgi lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, but she does her kosher food shopping 500 miles away, at the East Side Kosher Deli in Denver,…
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Breaking News Paris Kosher Grocery Reopens After Massacre
The kosher supermarket on the edge of Paris that was the site of a bloody hostage situation in January will reopen Sunday. Hyper Cacher, which was badly damaged in the attack, has been renovated and restaffed, The Times of Israel reported. On Jan. 9, two days after the shooting at Paris’ Charlie Hebdo magazine that…
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News How Fidel Castro Saved Cuba’s Only Kosher Butcher
Just by coincidence, forty-eight hours after President Barack Obama announced a coming détente with Cuba, I was in Havana. And talking to a kosher butcher, of all people. Yes, Havana has a kosher butcher, which sounds like the punch-line of a joke. There are, after all, only 1,500 Jews left in all of Cuba, the…
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Food Hain Celestial Group Acquires Empire Kosher
Hain Celestial Group, a leading distributor of organic foods, has purchased Empire Kosher Poultry, the biggest kosher poultry producer in the United States. Kosher Today reports that Hain already owned 20 percent of Empire’s parent corporation, EK Holdings, so the $57.5 million deal gives Hain the remaining 80 percent. Industry experts report that the acquisition…
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Life Letting Women In the Kitchen
Avivit Ravia, one of two female kosher supervisors for Hashgacha Pratit, visits Carousela restaurant. Photograph by Naomi Zeveloff. There is a black and white photograph that my grandmother took of my great-grandmother hanging in my mother’s house and in the houses of all of my great-grandmother’s descendants. In it, my great-grandmother is standing at her…
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Breaking News Rabbis End Ban on Christmas Trees in Israel Hotels
Israel’s Chief Rabbinate issued new kashrut guidelines for hotels that are based solely on the food of an establishment and will not take into account other considerations. The guidelines were released last week following a petition by the Israeli NGO Hiddush-For Religious Freedom and Equality that threatened to appeal to the Supreme Court if the…
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Breaking News Empire Kosher Sold to Natural Foods Giant
The Hain Celestial Group has bought Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc., the largest kosher poultry producer in the United States. Hain Celestial, one of the country’s largest sellers of natural and organic foods, had owned roughly 20 percent of EK Holdings, Inc., Empire Kosher Poultry’s parent corporation, before announcing on Wednesday that it had purchased the…
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