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Food The Bison Burger Incident
“BISON?!?” I exclaimed to my dad who had just told me to try a new type of burger. I was ten years old, standing in my kitchen, eating what I thought was a typical dinner. I was actually halfway through with the patty when my dad informed me this wasn’t from a typical cow; rather,…
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Fast Forward Feds Shut Kosher Large Warehouse in Queens After Rat Infestation
Customers can wave goodbye to KoJel kosher foods products like instant noodle soup and pudding — at least for a little while. V.I.P. Foods, the Queens food supplier that manufactures the products, has had roughly $1 million worth of inventory seized due to rodent infestation, The New York Times reported. The federal Food and Drug…
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Fast Forward Poland Has One Month Supply of Kosher Meat Left
Poland’s Jewish community has about a one month supply of kosher meat left, following a ban on ritual slaughter that went into effect at the beginning of the year. Piotr Kadlcik, president of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, confirmed to JTA on Monday from Warsaw that Poland will run out of kosher…
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Food Where To Eat That’s Kosher? There’s an App for That
Yitzie Katz’s “aha” moment for KosherRestaurantsGPS — a new app tracking 1,600 certified-kosher food establishments — came three years ago in Manhattan’s Garment District. Parked outside W. 36th St. kosher hangout Jerusalem Café, the software developer noticed his car’s navigation system didn’t recognize the restaurant existed. Worse, he learned, “even if you used a GPS…
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News Passover Kosher Meat Scandal in Los Angeles Latest in String of Mishaps
Less than a day before the start of Passover, the phone rang at the Brooklyn home of Rabbi Yisroel Belsky. On the line were concerned members of the Rabbinical Council of California, a rabbinical association in Los Angeles that provides kosher certification, among other services. The RCC had just discovered that Mike Engelman, the owner…
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News How Kosher Meat Scandal Exploded in Los Angeles
On March 7, at 6:10 a.m., a van and an SUV sit in adjacent parking spaces in the lot of a McDonald’s near the junction of the 101 and the 405 freeways, their rear lift-gates open. Mike Engelman, the driver of the SUV, with the help of the driver of the van, loads something into…
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Fast Forward Los Angeles Market in Kosher Meat Scandal Gets New Ownership
Local businessman Shlomo Rechnitz has bought a scandal-plagued kosher supermarket in Los Angeles from its former owner, who is suspected of mislabeling its meat. The Rabbinical Council of California, a kashrut certifier, on Wednesday announced the troubled Doheny Market will undergo a serious makeover after Rechnitz purchased the store from Mike Engleman at its behest….
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Fast Forward Feds Probe Los Angeles Kosher Meat Scandal at Doheny’s Market
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investigating a Los Angeles kosher meat market for selling meat that was not properly certified as kosher. Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats is being probed, the USDA confirmed to the Los Angeles Times. The department did not provide details because the investigation is continuing, the newspaper reported. Mike Engelman, the…
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