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Fast Forward Polish Court Strikes Down Kosher Slaughter Ban
A Polish court ruled that the de-facto ban imposed last year on slaughter without stunning of animals, which includes kosher and halal ritual slaughter, is unconstitutional. A majority of five out of the nine justices who reviewed the ban at the Polish Constitutional Tribunal Wednesday ruled it ran contrary to the country’s constitution, the European…
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Food Is Marmite Kosher? Well, Yes and No
It was certainly one of the stranger Jewish conversations I have had. (Mind you, I have had many.) There I was in Oxford after a hearty Sabbath lunch, walking in the beauty of Christ Church Meadow, chatting with a new friend about food. At a moment, he turned to me and said, “You said you’re…
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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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Fast Forward 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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