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Fast Forward Israel Bans Juul E-Cigarettes Over Health Concerns
JERUSALEM, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Israel on Tuesday outlawed the import and sale of e-cigarettes made by Silicon Valley start-up Juul Labs, citing public health concerns given their nicotine content. A statement by Israel’s Health Ministry said the Juul device was banned because it contains nicotine at a concentration higher than 20 milligrams per milliliter…
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News Is Vaping More ‘Kosher’ Than Smoking? Rabbis Say It’s Complicated.
Walk into Drop Juice, an e-cigarette store in Brooklyn, and you’ll hear customers asking the normal questions about vapor, oils and battery packs — in Yiddish. The store is located next to a yeshiva in one of Williamsburg’s ultra-Orthodox sections. Virtually of its customers are Hasidic, according to Moses, the manager. They buy his products,…
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Culture What Was Passover Like Before WWII? 5 Facts You May Not Know
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. If you‘re ever looking for descriptions of life in the shtetl, the most informative source is the work of B. Gorin (1868-1925). Though he was best known as the author of the first history of the Yiddish theater, Gorin was also a great writer with a special…
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Life Yes, Marijuana Is Kosher — No Matter What Jeff Sessions Says
Republicans and Democrats alike are in a panic after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s plan to renew tough enforcement of federal marijuana laws, rescinding an Obama administration directive that effectively decriminalized marijuana in states that have legalized the drug. Meanwhile, at the state level and among the American people, marijuana continues to…
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Fast Forward IDF Announces New Operation: A War On Smoking
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces has opened a new war – against smoking. The military announced Sunday that on November 1 that it will stop selling cigarettes on 65 bases across the country and that it will prohibit smoking in public areas of the bases and will provide limited smoking areas. The IDF’s…
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Fast Forward Rise In Smoking In Israel ‘Unheard Of In The Developed World’
TEL AVIV (JTA) — In its annual report on smoking released last week, Israel’s Health Ministry recorded the biggest single-year rise in smoking in more than a decade, with the rate rising to 22.5 percent in 2016 from 19.7 percent the previous year. “This is unheard of in the developed world,” Leah Rosen, who heads…
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Fast Forward Sephardic Chief Rabbi Insists All Cigarettes Kosher For Passover
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi ruled that it is permitted to smoke cigarettes that are not certified as kosher for Passover during the holiday. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said in a satellite television broadcast that cigarettes do not need to be certified as leaven-free for Passover, though some cigarettes manufactured in Israel or abroad…
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