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Breaking News Dutch Plan Oversight of Kosher Slaughter — Ban Export
The Dutch government announced it plans to limit ritual slaughter through new measures, including a ban on the export of kosher and halal meat. Agriculture Minister Martijn van Dam announced his government’s plan to limit ritual slaughter in the kingdom on Wednesday, in a letter he sent to the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of…
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Culture Why Isn’t There More of a Hoohah About Kosher Bacon?
A recent culinary phenomenon has caught my eye: the steady advance of “kosher bacon,” a meat product that looks and tastes like the real thing. What intrigues me is not its popularity, or the ways in which once intact boundaries between kosher cuisine and its nonkosher counterparts have been increasingly erased. What I find most…
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Breaking News Tiny Iowa Town’s Jews Bounce Back After Agriprocessors Raid
POSTVILLE, Iowa (JTA) – On a frigid evening late last month, Aron Schimmel, the Chabad emissary here, sat in a deli at the back of the glatt kosher supermarket sipping from a can of Israeli mango juice. A sign posted next to the entranceway boasted of the presence of Jewish life in this working-class town…
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Food Babka’s the New Bagel — Plus All the Weekly Dish
The babka ice-cream sandwich at Russ & Daughter’s Café. Extra, extra, read all about it: Babka’s “the new bagel!” That’s the breaking news in February issue. “Babka is just like Taylor Swift during her country music period,” the magazine enthuses. “A niche figure ready for the crossover to mainstream star.” The babka ice-cream sandwich at…
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Food Russ & Daughters Going Big in Brooklyn
An artist’s rendering of the future Russ & Daughters at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. , the iconic Lower East Side fish purveyor and café operator, is going big for its first retail expansion outside Manhattan. The century-plus, family-owned business will become the anchor tenant of Building 77, the public food hall and manufacturing space planned…
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Food Kosher Food Easy To Find at Disney
Tabouli from Zayde’s Kosher Kitchen in Orlando’s Rosen Plaza Hotel. (JTA) — As any religiously observant Jew knows, going on vacation can take a lot of work. Aside from the customary preparations, there are the added complications of organizing kosher food and Shabbat logistics. Many kosher tourists spend days before trips precooking meals to freeze…
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Food Ecuador Gets First Kosher Restaurant
A kosher fast-food restaurant believed to be the only one of its kind in Ecuador opened in its largest city to serve the tiny Jewish community and more. “We Jews did not have a place to eat. So I have persuaded the local Jewish community leaders” to open the restaurant, Israeli businessman Ofir Belaishe told…
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Breaking News America’s Tastiest Chicken About to be Deemed Kosher
Frank Reese, owner of the Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch, only raises heritage birds. LINDSBORG, Kan. (JTA) – Thousands of birds strutted around like rambunctious kids at recess — six varieties of turkey and nearly 40 breeds of chicken, duck and geese. As soon as a stranger stepped into their dominion, a dozen of the largest…
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