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News After Scandal, Slow Start for Ethical Certification
Magen Tzedek, the kosher ethics certification program launched four years ago, has yet to certify its first food producer. In fact, Rabbi Morris Allen, the group’s program director, told the Forward that independent auditors only completed their initial audit of the project’s first potential candidate to receive the Magen Tzedek seal in August. And even…
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Fast Forward Jewish Prisoner Argues Texas Must Provide Kosher Food
Lawyers for an imprisoned Jewish man argued in court on Monday that the state of Texas is violating his religious freedom by failing to provide him with kosher meals. Max Moussazadeh, convicted of murder, has been in a Texas prison for 19 years after he served as a lookout during a robbery in which a…
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Fast Forward US Supreme Court Rejects Rubashkin Appeal
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by Sholom Rubashkin, the former chief executive of a kosher meat packing plant in Iowa who was sentenced to 27 years in prison on charges of financial fraud. Without comment, the high court refused to consider whether Sholom Rubashkin’s sentence was excessive for a first-time, nonviolent offender and…
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Opinion Why Ban Kippahs, Madame Le Pen?
Aside from the latent anti-Semitism that motivates the European political fringe, there are two possible explanations for why Marine Le Pen felt it necessary to explain that if France is to proscribe the hijab or chador in the public square as she favours, “it is obvious that we must ban the kippa.” She added that…
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News Grenade Tossed at Paris Kosher Grocery
An explosion at a kosher grocery shop near Paris, reportedly caused by a grenade, damaged the store and injured a shopper, French police said. Police have not linked Wednesday afternoon’s attack to the release of caricatures hours earlier by a Paris weekly depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad, including one featuring a haredi Orthodox Jew and…
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Fast Forward Kosher Restaurant Torched in Florida
A kosher restaurant in Hollywood, Fla., was torched by two masked arsonists. The fire last Friday at the Achla Pita Grill took place at Emerald Center, the same strip mall where a Judaica store burned down last December. The arsonists are seen on surveillance footage entering the restaurant’s kitchen and splashing flammable liquid all over…
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Fast Forward European Jewish Leader Urges ‘Compromises’
The president of the European Jewish Congress, Moshe Kantor, urged dozens of imams and rabbis to accept “compromises” in negotiating religious liberties in Europe. “We are ready to compromise in dialogue with European leaders,” Kantor said Tuesday at a event attended by dozens of Muslim and Jewish religious leaders in Paris. Recent compromises are “a…
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Food Rabbi Warns Holland on Kosher Slaughter Ban
Israel’s leading rabbi has warned Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders that his party’s support for a ban of ritual slaughter of animals in the Netherlands is “anti-Semitic” and could drive away the country’s Jewish community. Wilders rose to prominence in the Netherlands denouncing the growing influence of Islam in the West, calling for a ban…
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