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Fast Forward Berkeley Kosher Slaughter Workshop Canceled Amid Outcry
A planned workshop in Berkeley, Calif., on kosher slaughter — during which 15 hens were to be killed — was canceled Thursday amid public outcry from animal rights groups and others. Urban Adamah initially stood firm that its long-planned event would continue as scheduled on Sunday, May 4, even in the face of activists who…
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Food Urban Adamah Cancels Kosher Slaughter Workshop
thinkstock A Berkeley workshop on kosher slaughter — during which 15 hens were to be killed — was canceled this week amid public outcry from animal rights groups and others. Urban Adamah initially stood firm that its long-planned event would continue as scheduled on Sunday, May 4, even in the face of activists who threatened…
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Fast Forward Venezuelan Jew Sues Alabama Prison for Kosher Food
A Jewish man being held in a jail in Alabama has filed a federal lawsuit demanding that prison authorities serve him kosher food. Rafael Alberto Lloveras Linares is a federal immigration detainee from Venezuela. He claims in his lawsuit that he is not being served kosher meals as required by federal law, according to the…
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The Schmooze Pot Not Kosher for Passover — Even on 4/20
It’s that time of the year again — Passover and 4/20, the unofficial marijuana celebration day. On the same day. The celebration of all things green poses a particular problem for the chosen people. Namely, is smoking pot kosher for Passover? Sorry to disappoint, but it seems not. In 2007, Israel’s Green Leaf Party, which…
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Food Snacks To Help You Survive Passover
We’re half way through Passover and if you’re anything like me, you’re starting to crave all of those delicious carbs that the Atkin’s diet and the rabbis frown upon this time of year — bread, pastries, cake, pizza, pasta and even beer. In Israel, food companies and some creative chefs have found ways around the…
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Food An Italian Love Story Turns Into Journey into the Passover Kitchen
A year ago, I came to Rome to work on my next book, take a break from New York, and enjoy la dolce vita ? decidedly alone. The day I arrived in the city, lost and bedraggled, I asked a stranger on a motorbike for directions. He was wearing beat-up jeans and had a devilish…
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News Quinoa Is More Kosher Than the Labor Practices That Produce It
When Rabbi Shoshan Ghoori of the Orthodox Union first traveled to La Rinconada, Peru, the world’s highest city, the air was so thin that he needed an oxygen tank just to stay conscious. But the lack of air did not deter him from his peculiar mission: deciding whether quinoa should be kosher for Passover. Over…
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Food Food for Thought: Debating Kosher Ethics
Most Jewish holidays have food as a central component of the celebration-from latkes on Hanukkah to misloach manot on Purim and blintzes on Shavuot. Yet, Passover, through the Seder and the full-scale flip from “chametz” to “matza” (from eating leavened foods to eating foods devoid of all leaven), makes food and eating an essential focus…
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