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Opinion How I Covered the Paris Hostage Siege
Police arrive on the scene of the hostage crisis in eastern Paris.// Laurent-David Samama It was mid-morning when I saw several police cars rushing into my street with their sirens on. Even glimpsed through my window, the situation looked unusual. In light of the recent massacre at Charlie Hebdo, I was suspicious, and headed out…
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Food What Does Angus Johnson Know About Kosher Farming?
“With a name like Angus Johnson, you can probably guess I wasn’t born Jewish,” Berkshires farmer Angus Johnson said, beginning his story. He was, however, born into a long line of farmers. For five generations, the family farm was diversified between livestock, vegetables, orchard fruits and bush fruit, all raised and grown sustainably. For the…
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Food Tokyo Gets First Kosher Restaurant
Japan’s only certified kosher restaurant is set to open to the public next month. The new restaurant began operations several weeks ago, Rabbi Mendy Sudakevich, Chabad’s emissary to Japan, told JTA on Friday. However, the restaurant, which is called as Chana’s Place, is currently only open by appointment. “Initially, the restaurant will seat 14 in…
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Culture Bullets Fired at Paris Kosher Restaurant
A kosher restaurant in Paris was fired on in an attack that is similar to one on a Paris synagogue days earlier. Bullet holes were discovered Wednesday in the window of the Al Haeche kosher restaurant located in the 19th district of northeastern Paris. The attack reportedly occurred Tuesday night, the JSSNews website reported. The…
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Breaking News ‘Is It Kosher?’ App Weeds Out the Treyf
(JTA) — When Haim Grinfeld from Tallinn began keeping kosher, he would go to the supermarket and phone up his good friend Moshe Beshkin, a software developer who is one of a handful of observant Jews living in Estonia. Haim needed Moshe’s help two years ago because many kosher brands that are sold in Estonia…
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Culture The Great Food Fight of 1883
One of the most appealing things about my line of work is that, now and again, I have the opportunity to revisit something I’ve read, written or talked about. The other day, an invitation from the department of Judaic studies at the University of Cincinnati to deliver a public lecture about food provided me with…
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Breaking News Polish Court Strikes Down Kosher Slaughter Ban
A Polish court ruled that the de-facto ban imposed last year on slaughter without stunning of animals, which includes kosher and halal ritual slaughter, is unconstitutional. A majority of five out of the nine justices who reviewed the ban at the Polish Constitutional Tribunal Wednesday ruled it ran contrary to the country’s constitution, the European…
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Food Is Marmite Kosher? Well, Yes and No
It was certainly one of the stranger Jewish conversations I have had. (Mind you, I have had many.) There I was in Oxford after a hearty Sabbath lunch, walking in the beauty of Christ Church Meadow, chatting with a new friend about food. At a moment, he turned to me and said, “You said you’re…
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