This is the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
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News France Mourns 4 Victims of Kosher Grocery Bloodbath — Hunt on for Terrorist’s Wife
(Reuters) — France mourned the the victims of the terror attack on a Paris kosher grocery as police searched for a female accomplice to militant Islamists and maintained a top-level anti-terrorist alert ahead of nationwide anti-terror marches set for Sunday. Prime Minister Manuel Valls urged a massive turnout on Sunday. Tens of thousands flocked to local…
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News 4 Hostages Killed as Police Storm Paris Kosher Supermarket — Terrorist Also Dead
French President Francois Hollande confirmed reports on Friday that four hostages were killed at a siege of a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris. Hollande called for national unity and said the country should remain “implacable” in the face of racism and anti-Semitism. “It is indeed an appalling anti-Semitic act that was committed,” he said of…
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Opinion How I Covered the Paris Hostage Siege
Police arrive on the scene of the hostage crisis in eastern Paris.// Laurent-David Samama It was mid-morning when I saw several police cars rushing into my street with their sirens on. Even glimpsed through my window, the situation looked unusual. In light of the recent massacre at Charlie Hebdo, I was suspicious, and headed out…
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Food What Does Angus Johnson Know About Kosher Farming?
“With a name like Angus Johnson, you can probably guess I wasn’t born Jewish,” Berkshires farmer Angus Johnson said, beginning his story. He was, however, born into a long line of farmers. For five generations, the family farm was diversified between livestock, vegetables, orchard fruits and bush fruit, all raised and grown sustainably. For the…
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Food Tokyo Gets First Kosher Restaurant
Japan’s only certified kosher restaurant is set to open to the public next month. The new restaurant began operations several weeks ago, Rabbi Mendy Sudakevich, Chabad’s emissary to Japan, told JTA on Friday. However, the restaurant, which is called as Chana’s Place, is currently only open by appointment. “Initially, the restaurant will seat 14 in…
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Culture Bullets Fired at Paris Kosher Restaurant
A kosher restaurant in Paris was fired on in an attack that is similar to one on a Paris synagogue days earlier. Bullet holes were discovered Wednesday in the window of the Al Haeche kosher restaurant located in the 19th district of northeastern Paris. The attack reportedly occurred Tuesday night, the JSSNews website reported. The…
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Fast Forward ‘Is It Kosher?’ App Weeds Out the Treyf
(JTA) — When Haim Grinfeld from Tallinn began keeping kosher, he would go to the supermarket and phone up his good friend Moshe Beshkin, a software developer who is one of a handful of observant Jews living in Estonia. Haim needed Moshe’s help two years ago because many kosher brands that are sold in Estonia…
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Culture The Great Food Fight of 1883
One of the most appealing things about my line of work is that, now and again, I have the opportunity to revisit something I’ve read, written or talked about. The other day, an invitation from the department of Judaic studies at the University of Cincinnati to deliver a public lecture about food provided me with…
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