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Fast Forward Federal Judge Orders Florida Prison System To Reinstate Kosher Meal Plan
A U.S. federal judge has ordered the Florida prisons service to provide kosher meals to all prisoners with a “sincere religious basis” for doing so. The ruling issued earlier this month requires the order be implemented by July 1, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday. The ruling comes after the Florida Department of Corrections has dragged…
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Food In the Kitchen With Brooklyn’s Kosher Revolutionary
On a crisp morning earlier this fall, I met chef Itta Werdiger Roth outside a small storefront in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. The windows were still covered with newspaper, but inside was the beginning of Mason & Mug, a new artisanal kosher restaurant she is set to open on November 25 with her…
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Fast Forward Kosher Slaughter Gets New Hearing in Poland
The Polish Constitutional Tribunal has accepted for review an appeal by the Polish Jewish Community on the delegitimization of shechitah. Representatives of Jewish community were informed on Tuesday that the Constitutional Tribunal will consider the appeal. “It’s a promising sign on the eve of Chanukah,” Piotr Kadlcik, president of the Union of Jewish Communities in…
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Fast Forward Fire Damages Former Agriprocessors Plant in Iowa
Fire damaged the first floor of the former site of the Agriprocessors kosher meat processing plant in Iowa. The late Friday night fire at Agri Star Meat & Poultry in Postville started in a dryer that was left on in the plant’s laundry room, according to reports, and has been classified as accidental. No one…
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Food Life, Death, and Kosher Slaughter
Yadidya Greenberg is a certified shochet (kosher slaughterer), animal welfare educator and blogger. He has given live kosher slaughter and animal welfare presentations at The Portland Meat Collective, Urban Adamah of Berkley and the Hazon Rocky Mountain Food Festival just to name a few. Yadidya will also be featured in the upcoming documentary “Farm and…
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Food Israel Sets Example on Kosher Animal Cruelty
(JTA) — Diaspora Jews often find themselves exasperated with the Israeli rabbinate. But on one significant issue, an Israeli rabbinic authority is looking far more enlightened and merciful than his peers in the United States. Recently elected Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau surprised more than a few people last week when he reportedly threatened to…
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Opinion News Quiz: Kosher Starbucks, Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner, Elliot Spitzer and Bernie Goetz. They’re back, in this week’s quiz. The latest item to wow visitors to Kosherfest? It’s here, too, because, like those men, it’s as Jewish and strange as it Goetz. <a href=”http://theforward.polldaddy.com/s/jew-hear-about-2″>View Survey</a>
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News Kosher Chicken, E Coli and the Horace Mann Kid
It’s a new, if still debatable, mystery of modern science: Why would kosher chickens harbor much higher levels of potentially dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria than nonkosher chickens? The authors of a recent study that found this are just as stumped as anyone. “Nobody expected it would be any higher than conventional chicken,” said lead author Jack…
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