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Fast Forward Quebec Plans To Tighten Rules for Kosher Slaughter
Quebec’s agricultural minister is looking to tighten regulations for kosher and halal meat production. “We want the slaughter to happen in the most complete conditions of hygiene and cleanliness,” Quebec Minister of Agriculture François Gendron said, in comments reported by Montreal radio station CJAD last week. The minister said he would announce a plan for…
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Food What’s ‘Kosher’ Worth? A Hell of a Lot
How much is a kosher website worth? Apparently, half a million dollars. Kosher.com sold earlier this week for that full sticker price. But wait: It wasn’t owned before? Well, it was, but brace yourself for the actual shocking part: There is no website present at kosher.com. Navigating to kosher.com takes a netizen to a blank,…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Passes Bill Backing Kosher Slaughter
The Lithuanian parliament passed a draft amendment aimed at preventing the outlawing of kosher slaughter. The amendment submitted by Vytautas Gapsys of the Labor party would benefit the “export of meat to Israel and Arab countries, which are new opportunities,” Gapsys told the news website obzor.lt on Tuesday. Fifty-one lawmakers in the 141-seat parliament voted…
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Food A Jewish Chef in Fiji
There are few Jews living in the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, aside from a small Jewish community in the capital city of Suva who are mostly descendants of Australian merchants who arrived in the 1880s. One of them is Ofir Yudilevich, executive chef at the InterContinental Fiji Golf Resort & Spa on the…
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Food Save Eli’s!
WASHINGTON — Eli’s Restaurant, a popular kosher eatery in Washington D.C., frequented by politicians, lobbyists and government workers, may have a date with the wrecking ball. According to a petition being circulated on Change.org, its “current storefront will be demolished as part of a redevelopment plan.” The petition, which had 100 signatures as of Tuesday,…
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Fast Forward Meet the Jewish Teen Who Helped Carry Out Kosher Chicken E Coli Study
For several months during the spring of his 10th grade year, Jack Millman had an unusual Saturday ritual: He and his mother would ride around metropolitan New York and buy up vast quantities of raw chicken. Millman and his mother, Ann Marks, didn’t cook the poultry. Instead they put it on ice and shipped it…
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Food Michael Solomonov’s Culinary Tribute to Slain Brother
For Israeli-American chef Michael Solomonov, this weekend’s dinner in an Israeli park had been in the making for 10 years – ever since his younger brother David was killed on duty in the Israel Defense Forces. Michael Solomonov, the owner of Zahav, an award-winning Israeli style restaurant in Philadelphia, was just launching his culinary career…
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Fast Forward Kosher Chicken Less Safe to Eat, Study Finds
Despite widespread consumer perception that kosher food is healthier and cleaner, kosher chicken might be less safe to consume than conventional poultry, a new study found. Researchers with Northern Arizona State University examined the occurrence of antibiotic-resistant E. coli on four types of raw chicken: conventional, organic, kosher and those raised without antibiotics, all purchased…
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