Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of kosher food, which follows Jewish dietary law.
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Breaking News Death Row Convert Loses Bid for Kosher Prison Food
A federal judge in Connecticut rejected a death row inmate’s motions for a hearing and a temporary injunction in a lawsuit against the state for not providing him with kosher prison food. Steven Hayes, who was convicted in the 2007 murder of a woman and her two daughters, sued the state’s Department of Corrections in…
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Breaking News Argentina Will Serve Kosher Food to Patients
The Argentine National Ministry of Health signed an agreement to serve kosher food to patients that request it. The agreement signed Wednesday by Minister of Health Juan Luis Manzur, and the Argentinian Jewish political umbrella DAIA creates the service that will be available on demand in every public hospital in the country. Beginning Thursday the…
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Food Can a Hot Sauce Set Your Soul on Fire?
Lo and behold: the first “boldly kosher” hot sauce is here. Photographs courtesy of Burning Bush Neil Wernick’s inspiration to create Burning Bush Kosher Hot Sauce was derived from more than just a desire to spice up his food. Before he became a food entrepreneur, Wernick worked as a brand builder and engineer, whose Jewish…
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Food Food Trends Abound at Kosherfest
Inside Kosherfest 2014. Photograph by Liza Schoenfein The first food that jumped out at me yesterday when I walked into the vast Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey, for Kosherfest 2014 was the gluten-free granola. The latest offering from Foodman’s Original Matzolah, the cranberry-and-orange flavored product is wheat- and nut-free. Its prominent placement (Matzolah…
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Breaking News French Kosher Grocery Arsonist Gets 4 Years in Prison
The Chief Rabbi of France, Rabbi Haim Korsia, praised the sentencing of a man who torched a kosher supermarket to four years in jail and said it “sent an important message.” The Correctional Tribunal of Pontoise near Paris on Oct. 26 sentenced a 27-year-old ambulance driver identified in French media as Abbas C., who on…
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Breaking News British Lawmaker Wants Labels on Meat From Unstunned Animals
Meat sold in Britain should be labeled if the animal has not been stunned before slaughter, a British lawmaker said. Neil Parish, who heads the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Beef and Lamb, made the call on Monday for the increased stunning of animals undergoing ritual slaughter during a parliamentary meeting of the group, the London-based…
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Israel News Religious Activists Challenge the Way Israel Does Kosher
Carousela is an offbeat Jerusalem cafe with ornate wooden seats, vintage photographs of Yemenite women, posters of the British Mandate-era “Palestine Post” and a menu with several different types of shakshuka, or eggs poached in tomato sauce. But that’s not what makes this restaurant so unusual. That would be its kashrut status. Carousela is one…
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Food DIY Pork-Detector Kit Hits France
A new way to detect whether food contains pork traces will soon be available online JTA – Worried that the food you thought was kosher, or at least kosher style, has some hidden pork? Now, using a few test tubes, water and a small pregnancy test-like strip, you can find out in a few minutes…
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