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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Recipes Red Velvet Macaroon Cake Is for Lovers
There is a sad truth about Passover: Its dessert always falls short. Hanukkah has donuts, Purim has hamantaschen and Rosh Hashanah has honey cake. Poor Passover has no signature sweet. Perhaps you’ve put in the extra effort to make a kosher for Passover cake for your Seders past, but if you’re like me, you’ve never…
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Breaking News French Leader Bans Non-Pork Options from School Menus
Non-pork options for Jewish and Muslim students will no longer be offered in school menus in towns where the far-right National Front party won local elections, the head of the party said. “We will not accept any religious demands in school menus,” National Front party leader Marine Le Pen said in an interview on RTL…
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News Kosher Soup Kitchen Struggles With Rising Ranks of Hungry as Passover Nears
On a recent chilly afternoon in Queens, two women shivered in a line of about 50 people that trailed out the door of Masbia, a kosher food pantry and soup kitchen. The first woman, from Manhattan, wore baggy pants. The other, from Queens, was clad in a long, draping skirt. Their outfits signaled differences in…
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Food 6 Kosher Wines To Sip This Seder
Kosher wine maker and collector Jeff Morgan says the kosher wine world is experiencing an “ongoing renaissance” — particularly in Israel and America and, to a lesser extent, in Europe. Here are his recommendations for exceptional bottles for the Seder table: Covenant Lavan Chardonnay Sonoma Mountain 2011, California ($38) This wine is sourced from a…
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Breaking News A Kosher Winery Grows in Berkeley
Jeff Morgan’s story is one best told over a glass of wine — preferably a robust cabernet by Covenant, the kosher wine company he has co-owned for more than a decade. A roving jazz musician and writer turned vintner, Morgan has spent most of the past 10 years working with California vineyards and wineries to…
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Breaking News Poland Says Non-Commercial Kosher Slaughter Legal
Polish Jews who perform non-commercial ritual slaughter for the needs of the Jewish community are not violating the law, Poland’s parliament announced in a statement. The statement appeared in a position paper by the Sejm, Poland’s parliament, that parliament sent recently to the country’s Constitutional Tribunal, the Warsaw-based Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily newspaper reported Wednesday….
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Breaking News Kosher Nightclub Shahar Opens in Moscow
A Russian Jewish group is preparing to open a kosher nightclub in the center of Moscow. The opening of the new institution, the Shahar Club, is slated for April 5, the Russia-language Israeli news site izrus.co.il reported on Tuesday. “Jewish youth in Moscow should have somewhere with an easy, relaxed atmosphere to hang out, discuss…
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News Kosher Butchers Take Center Stage in Obamacare Supreme Court Debate
(JTA) — For 20 or so minutes last week, the issue of religious freedom was cast as a struggle between working women and Muslim and Jewish butchers. The pointed questions posed March 25 to the Obama administration’s chief lawyer by three U.S. Supreme Court justices got to the heart of whether businesses have the same…
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