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Food Manischewitz Names Industry Vet New CEO
Manischewitz has a new president and chief executive officer. The world’s largest matzo maker and one of America’s leading kosher food brands, the company has announced the appointment of industry veteran David Sugarman. Sugarman served as president and CEO of the Allan Candy Company, a division of Hershey. “I am honored to be selected as…
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News Is Smoking Kosher for Passover — and What About Pot?
Smoking is one of those topics that ties rabbis up in knots, and marijuana just clouds the issue even more. And that’s before Jewish dietary laws even come into it. Yes, smoking is now acknowledged to be bad for you, so indulgence ostensibly contravenes the command not to desecrate the body. But it is also…
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Food Jewish and Muslim Students Collaborate on UCSD Dining Plan
Flickr The University of California at San Diego will soon become the first campus in the UC system to have a joint Kosher/Halal dining hall, U-T San Diego reported. The project began over a year ago, when Zev Hurwitz, executive vice president of the Union of Jewish Students, approached school administrators with the idea for…
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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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Fast Forward 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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