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Food Could Science Create a Kosher Cheeseburger?
(JTA) — When the world’s first lab-grown burger taste-tested on Monday, the event seemed full of promise for environmentalists, animal lovers and vegetarians. Another group that had good reason to be excited? Kosher consumers. The world’s first in-vitro burger, made using stem cells and soaked in a nutrient broth that might make Upton Sinclair shudder,…
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Fast Forward Rabbi vs. Rabbi Feud Sinks Poland’s Fight To Maintain Kosher Slaughter
(JTA) — A few weeks before Poland’s parliament voted last month on whether to overturn a ban on ritual slaughter, Rabbi Menachem Margolin was scheduled to meet the Polish president in an effort to find a solution to the problem. The ban had been imposed in January, when a Polish constitutional court outlawed Jewish and…
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Fast Forward French Lawmaker Threatened for Anti-Kosher Stand
A French senator said she will complain to police over death threats she received after proposing special labels for halal and kosher meat. Sylvie Goy-Chavent of the centrist UDI party will lodge a complaint with police over the threats and online “calls for civil war and a call for the Israeli government to attack France,”…
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Food Say L’Chaim at a Walmart
Walmart is helping Americans get shickered this high holidays season. The multinational retail corporation will soon be distributing L’Chaim kosher vodka and wines in a number of their stores across the country The Drinks Report announced this week. The team behind L’Chaim is hoping to target men and women who are between 21 and 55…
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Fast Forward Kosher Slaughter Ban Kills $1.3B Poland Industry
The slaughterhouse in this small town in western Poland has a special dormitory to house the more than 30 Jewish men designated by Israel’s chief rabbi to oversee the production of kosher beef there. Since the slaughterhouse received permission to export to Israel five years ago, thousands of bulls were herded inside the building and…
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News Polish Kosher Slaughter Ban Has Jews Feeling Uneasy
(JTA) — In their Krakow home, Anna Makowka Kwapisiewicz and her husband, Piotr, skim through an online article about Poland’s recent ban on kosher slaughter. What they find even more disturbing than the actual news are the comments posted by other readers. Hundreds of comments calling on Jews to leave Poland have appeared beneath news…
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Fast Forward Kosher ‘Personal Lubricant’ Nixed by Rabbi Group
Sorry kosher sex fans, but the California rabbinical group that was set to certify personal lubricants as kosher has yanked its hechsher. We know this is hard to swallow, especially for those who may have come to rely on Wet’s line of sexual wellness products. Here’s the certification group’s deliciously worded statement: As reported in…
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Food $17B ‘Dot Kosher’ Internet Domain Feud
A Brooklyn-based kosher-certification agency has created a hullabaloo among Jewish groups by trying to add the word “kosher” to the end of its Internet address. OK Kosher Certification, a major Orthodox Jewish certification company, in November filed a request with Icann, the Internet’s organizing body, to register “dot-kosher” as a domain name. The company said…
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