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Life I would not eat babka and ham
Like any decent Millennial chef, I rely on the Apollo and Artemis of aesthetically pleasing recipe websites: New York Times Cooking and Bon Appetit. But Tuesday, I found one of my old favorites embroiled in controversy that someone— anyone— just had to see coming. The recipe in question was one for babka, the classic dessert…
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The Schmooze Yankees Minor League Team Renames Itself ‘Trenton Pork Roll’
For reasons unknown, baseball is not seen as relevant as it once was. Unrelated, no doubt, is the choice by the New York Yankees’ minor league team to rebrand themselves one day a week as “the Trenton Pork Roll” during their 25th anniversary season (they will continue to be “the Trenton Thunder on other nights.)…
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Fast Forward French Schools Ordered To Serve Pork-Free Lunches To Jewish Students
(JTA) — A French court ruled that schools should provide an alternative to lunches containing pork for Muslim and Jewish students. The decision on Monday came after a Muslim organization sued the local authority at Chalon-sur-Saône in Burgundy, about 180 miles from Paris in east-central France, challenging its decision in 2015 to stop providing a…
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Fast Forward ‘Big Pork’ Is Getting Into The Transplant Business — Is That Kosher?
Smithfield Foods, one of the nation’s largest pork suppliers, has announced that it’s forming a biosciences division that in the future might pioneer the transplantation of organs from pigs to humans. “We want to signal to the medical-device and science communities that this is an area we’re focused on — that we’re not strictly packers,”…
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Food Kosher Teen On ‘Master Chef’ Declines To Taste Own Cooking
JTA — A 13-year-old Jewish girl who cooked pork during a primetime reality show on Mexican TV said “my grandfather is going to kill me.” Batia Bresca was clearly uncomfortable cooking non-kosher food during the premiere of the Mexican edition of “MasterChef Junior 2017” last week and invoked Jewish law when a referee asked why…
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News 57% of Us Eat Pork and 9 Other Things About American Jews
(JTA) — Do you experience feelings of peace and well-being at least once a week? Did God write the Torah? Do you eat bacon? If these questions seem a little personal, don’t fret. They’re all part of a new Pew Research Center survey on American religion released Tuesday that shows moderate declines in religious beliefs and…
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Fast Forward Federal Prisons Scratch Pork Off Menu for Inmates
Pork is officially off the menu at U.S. federal prisons. With the start of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, the 206,000 inmates housed in 122 federal penitentiaries are no longer being served pork products. Edmond Ross, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons, told The Washington Post on Friday that “pork has been…
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