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Food Holy Kosher BBQ Truck Rolls on L.A. Streets
Photo: Facebook More than 2 million hot dogs are sold every year at Dodger Stadium — more than at any other stadium in America. Which comes as a pretty big surprise in a city known for its obsession with hamburgers and tacos. But here in Los Angeles, we do love our hot dogs. And these…
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Fast Forward Jews and Muslims Push Denmark on Kosher Slaughter
A joint delegation of observant Muslims and Jews made the case to the Danish ambassador to the United States that his country’s ban on ritual slaughter was harmful to its reputation. Leading the 10-person delegation to meet Peter Taksøe-Jensen on Feb. 27 were Rabbi Marc Schneier, the president for the Fonmdation for Ethnic Understanding, and…
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Music Lies and Silence Surround Kosher Slaughter Scandal in Poland
(JTA) After a Polish court tossed out a government regulation permitting kosher slaughter in 2012, Poland’s $500 million ritual slaughter industry was expected to be brought to its knees. Evidence shows, however, that not only was kosher slaughter still being performed in Poland as recently as this month, but also that kosher meat producers had…
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Fast Forward Denmark Debates If Kosher Slaughter Is Less Humane
Danish Agriculture Minister Dan Jorgensen said he was open to reviewing scientific studies that present Muslim or Jewish ritual slaughter as humane. Jorgensen made the statement during a meeting Friday with representatives of Denmark’s Jewish and Muslim communities following his decision earlier this month to ban ritual slaughter, or shechitah, in Denmark. Danish Chief Rabbi…
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Food Six Kosher Wines To Drink Right Now
thinkstock I wondered, as I crossed the stone-flagged patio of the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, if it was worth visiting the Second Wine Jerusalem Festival. I’d made the rounds of the larger Sommelier wine exhibition in Tel Aviv just a few weeks earlier. There probably won’t be much new to see or taste, I…
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Opinion Denmark’s Kosher Ban Hypocrisy
Denmark denounces kosher slaughter as animal cruelty. Yet the Scandinavian nation allows mink farming for fur./Getty images Ritual slaughter, performed according to Islamic and Jewish tradition, is considered a humane method of slaughter under the Humane Methods of Livestock Slaughter Act (HMSLA), the United States federal law designed to decrease animal suffering. In ritual slaughter,…
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Fast Forward Denmark ‘Insulted’ by Claim Kosher Slaughter Ban Is Anti-Semitic
Denmark’s Ambassador to Israel Jesper Vahr rejected as “very insulting” accusations by Israeli officials that the country’s ban on slaughter without stunning amounted to anti-Semitism. “European anti-Semitism is showing its true colors across Europe, and is even intensifying in the government institutions,” Israel’s Deputy Minister of Religious Services Rabbi Eli Ben Dahan said in response…
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News Winn-Dixie Supermarket Bets on Kosher Food in Florida
(JTA) — Stroll past the kosher section of most large supermarkets in America and you could be forgiven for thinking that Jewish diets consist mainly of jarred gefilte fish, unsalted matzahs and Tam-Tam crackers. Not so at the Winn-Dixie supermarket in this affluent South Florida suburb. There’s a kosher bakery with fresh pizza and dairy…
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