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News First Kosher Soup Kitchen Opens in Milan, Thanks to Chabad
Chabad in Milan is preparing to launch what is said to be the first kosher soup kitchen in Italy. Sponsored by the Milan branch of Chabad’s educational organization, Merkos l’Inyonei Chinuch, it is expected to begin operation at the end of the summer. The initiative will be a canteen providing free take-away meals to needy…
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News Talmudic ‘Development’; Orthodox Cinema; Chabad Power Struggle?; Top Kosher Dogs
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by deputy arts editor Ezra Glinter to discuss the new season of Arrested Development and its ‘talmudic’ qualities. Then, Ezra fills us in on the emergent ultra-orthodox cinema in Israel. Next, assistant news editor Larry Cohler-Esses drops by to discuss a possible reshuffling of…
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Food The Truth Behind Tnuva
Tnuva, the giant Israeli food company, made headlines this week with an admission that was stunningly candid, if not exactly a revelation. In documents filed in Jerusalem District Court, Tnuva admitted that the slaughter of farm animals, if exposed to public view, “would horrify most meat-eating consumers.” It’s one thing for Paul McCartney, the former…
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Food Top Dog: Who Makes the Best Kosher Hot Dog in America?
Memorial Day is almost upon us, and it’s time to dust off that grill in the garage, fire it up and lay some franks down on it. The question is, are you really honoring the freedom your American forefathers fought for if you just get the same pack of Hebrew National every time you want…
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Opinion Food and Faith
Five years ago, what was considered the largest immigration raid in American history trained a harsh spotlight on abusive conditions for workers and animals at the nation’s biggest kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant. The raid on Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa, and the subsequent conviction of its owner on federal financial fraud brought more than…
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News Magen Tzedek, Ethical Kosher Seal, Stalled Amid Orthodox Opposition
Robert Kaiser, a science teacher from New Hampshire with an interest in finding ethically produced kosher food, was excited when he learned of Magen Tzedek, a seal that would combine Jewish values and social justice in food production, spanning from the treatment of workers to environmental impact. But almost four years after the Magen Tzedek…
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Food Mixing Bowl: Kosher Slaughter in Poland, Gaza’s KFC Craving
New York diners are mourning the layoff of longtime restaurant critic Robert Sietsema from the Village Voice. [Eater] Gaza residents craving KFC can order delivery, but with the meals smuggled by underground tunnel, it’s not exactly fast food. [The New York Times] Lawmakers in Poland may lift a recent ban on kosher slaughter. [Times of…
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Fast Forward Parent-Killing Jewish Inmate Wins Round in Kosher Meals Fight
An Orthodox Jewish prison inmate from Florida who was convicted of murdering both his parents has won a key battle in his court fight to get kosher prison meals. A federal appeals court reinstated Bruce Rich’s lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections, which denied him the special meals after eliminating them in a cost-cutting…
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