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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
OU certifies chocolate bars under MrBeast Feastables brand.
By Vera Kessler
Rebbetzin Channy Lapine is the co-director of the Chabad Jewish Center of Missouri University and Mid-Missouri.
By Dave Gordon
“When the Jewish community is being treated differently than other communities in Canada because of our religious beliefs, that is discrimination,” said Richard Rabkin, managing director of the Kashruth Council of Canada.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The initiative includes some branches of McDonald's, Burger Ranch and Burgerim, the Jewish state's largest chains.
In light of the technological advances in producing lab-grown meat by in vitro cell culture, Jerusalem College of Technology in partnership with the Sulamot Organization hosts virtual gathering to examine the Halachic implications of this and other cutting-edge technologies.
Ross and Jono discuss some interesting topics and much more in this week’s show. You will not want to miss Cultured pork & Colonoscopies – the latest show on Israel On My Mind.
SuperMeat meat is produced by growing cells that have been extracted from a ‘real’ chicken and cultivated in the lab.
Rabbi Avraham Yosef was convicted of violating the public trust for allegedly using his position as chief rabbi of Holon to further the interests of a family-run kosher certification organization.
'The only way to know those facts is real shimush, seeing what is actually happening in the field.'
What does 40 Million US dollars get you?
By JNi.Media
Masbia volunteers say they want everyone to have a hot meal this holiday season despite their own financial duress.
Lionel enjoys making the deliveries as much as the seniors enjoy getting them.
Before long, people began calling Rabbi Eidlitz with their kashrus questions.
By Marc Gronich
I can tell you our price point is probably lower than our competitors at the New York State Fair. We want to make it where everyone can try the food….
The bolder women joined in the fight and for some time there was a lively hair pulling in the street.
By JNi.Media
"A man who turns his wife into an aguna and refuses to obey the judges' order to stop abusing her is not truly a man who values halakha and maintaining a Jewish lifestyle."
By JNi.Media
MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) said it was "refreshing to see a conservative approach on the part of the Supreme Court."
By JNi.Media
One talkbacker said the kashrut certification is meaningless, because of the halachic concept of "minhag hamakom," the local practice. If it's been forbidden, it should stay so.
Observant Jews cringe every year that Chanukah and Christmas overlap, leading to sacrilegious combinations of customs, but the kosher industry is losing out when the two holidays are totally separate, such as this year Chanukah beings next Sunday night, December 6, and ends eight days later, almost two weeks before the Christians holiday. Industry experts […]
Quality dates from Palestinian Authority farmers are stamped "Made in Palestine" and "Certified Kosher by Rabbi Efrati."
Less than two-thirds of Americans are "absolutely certain" that God exists. Millennials point to a godless future.
Top restaurateurs, chefs, farmers, entrepreneurs, bloggers, cookbook authors and other Jewish food world stars are at The Devil’s Thumb Ranch Resort in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains for a three-day "Harvest" festival. The learning and cooking event is aimed at serving up Jewish cuisine as the next major global food movement, and Jewish food leaders will explore […]
Kosher meat and dairy sandwiches now are available at four Heathrow Airport terminals, according got Kosher Today. The London international hub offers kosher food at the White House Smith stories in terminals 2, 3, 4 and 5. Kosher food increasingly is available at major international airports, and travel experts said that the London airport can […]
At least two people were flown to a hospital and three others were treated locally Wednesday after a foot bridge collapsed at a kosher hotel in Switzerland. Among the injured were Zurich Jewish leader Rabbi Hirsch Padwa, whose father leads the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations in London. The accident occurred at the Levin’s Hotel […]
Hareidi soldiers will form a new combat unit, and Hareidim are being integrated into combat support positions.
By Kosher Today
It is certainly not Jerusalem and New York but according to a recent article in the SA Jewish Report, the two major South African cities can take their place among some of the world’s vibrant kosher centers. There are approximately 70,000 Jews in South Africa, and the paper reported, "Its members are fortunate to choose […]
By Kosher Today
Could it be that one of America’s largest Jewish communities and kosher markets does not offer kosher fare at its premier ballpark? Apparently so, say fans who voiced their complaints with the Jewish Journal. Second only to New York, Los Angeles is estimated to have more than 600,000 Jews, yet no kosher food at Dodger […]
Arab smugglers were foiled by the Hebrew language.
A man makes his cooking pots kosher for Passover by dipping them into boiling water, in a process called Hagala.
Obama's term of "random attacks" that "happen" to target Jews may be accurate in one incident in London.
The women may be the fugitive husband of the murdered of four Jews in the attack on a kosher deli.
Israeli food makers are getting nervous about Israeli taste buds being Americanized.
God has not cooperated with the Boycott Israel movement.
A father and son scuba dive in Eilat. It turns out that Eilat is an incredibly popular destination for religious Israelis on Chanukah, and scuba diving is a very popular family activity. Unlike how the situation was decades ago when you could barely find a kosher restaurant, there are now 3 or 4 Kosher L'Mehadrin […]
By Kosher Today
Coffee for five shekels a cup not available.
By Shalom Bear
At best, the Hareidim have been eating "Heter Mechira". At worse, they've been eating vegetables grown in sewer water or pesticides from unknown and unsupervised Arabs fields.
By Tibbi Singer
Israel’s Haredi newspapers are calling it “The pig restaurant” scandal, even though Bibi had the veal chops.
European rabbi slams assault on Jewish ritual practice as “key tool for anti-Semites."
By Rachel Levy
A prison inmate on death row in Connecticut is demanding kosher food, though he's not really Jewish.
A protester who shouted “Jews aren’t safe – we’re coming to get you“ got a big surprise. Aliyah? Perish the thought.
By Kosher Today
Vegetable are healthy and kosher, Bugs are not.
The news that the Chief Rabbinate withdrew kosher supervisors from Turkish plants in the face of Israel’s war in Gaza is part of what some kashrus organizations call “working in a more dangerous world.” They recall the murder of two kosher supervisors in Mumbai in December 2008, and extremists have recently threatened more terror in […]
Kosher barbecue experts, fire up your grills! You will be tested in southern Connecticut this fall.
American Jews are increasingly buying more hand-made matzah as well as American-made manufactured matzah. All at the expense of Israeli exports, according to Kosher Today. Israeli exports used to hold approximately 40 percent of the American market but has declined by 11 percent. Sales of hand-made “shmurah matzah” have soared by nearly 15 percent. One […]
Sources in the kosher food industry are speculating that a new major supermarket deal will have a positive effect on kosher food sales. Cerberus Capital Management appears to be making a major investment into the supermarket industry by acquiring Safeway in addition to the Albertson’s chain which it already owns. Together, the two grocery chains […]
By Shalom Bear
Bar Ilan researchers recovered the ancient method of converting giraffe hide into Kosher parchment for writing Torah scrolls and Mezuzot.
By Tibbi Singer
Blackwell, who has been accused of "inflaming prejudice," says animals must be stunned before the cut.
By Kosher Today
The announcement by the 75-year old Crown Market in West Hartford, Connecticut, that it would be closing sent shock waves through the Jewish community. Mark Bakeoff, who bought the market five years ago, said tough economic conditions and increasing competition have made things difficult, but the biggest blow came with “one of the worst winters […]
By JTA
The president of Denmark’s Jewish community has disputed a government minister’s claims that new regulations would outlaw all kosher slaughter in the country. “We find this an odd statement,” Finn Schwarz, the community’s president, told JTA on Thursday about statements made earlier in the week by Agriculture Minister Dan Jorgensen to the Ritzau news agency. […]
By JTA
Amid reports that kosher slaughter is continuing in Poland in the face of a law prohibiting it, the country’s chief rabbi suspended an aide who appears to have misrepresented the practice to government inspectors. The aide, Michael Alper, wrote a letter to Polish veterinarians in which he asked for permission to slaughter 250 cows after […]
By JTA
Kosher and halal meals going to food pantries must be tracked and labeled as such under a new federal law. An amendment to the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act enacted last week mandates the tracking and labeling by the Department of Agriculture. The department currently purchases kosher and halal foods but does not […]
By JTA
Agudath Israel of America has asked the Pentagon to restore kosher field meals and charged that the Defense Logistics Agency had solicited a bid in April for kosher and halal “meals ready to eat,” but had recast the solicitation last month to include only halal, which adhere to Muslim religious precepts. “As things stand now, […]
By Kosher Today
Preparations are in full swing in nearly 150 destinations throughout the world to accommodate upward of 50,000 Jews who will be spending Passover in hotels, resorts, and other facilities. Israeli hoteliers are expecting a better than usual season, led by such flagship hotels as the David Citadel, the Jerusalem Ramada Renaissance, Inbal, and the King David in […]
Bennett is bringing Israel into the 21st century with a new system that will encourage more people to eat kosher.
By JTA
By the time they end up at Baba’s Grillroom in central Amsterdam, Israeli tourists tend to be somewhat distracted. Situated near the famous Rembrandt Square, this popular and veteran falafel eatery is literally surrounded by pot-selling coffee shops that help make Amsterdam one of the top holiday destinations for Israelis — and especially for the […]
By Kosher Today
The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets has named Rabbi Aaron Metzger of Monsey, New York, as the new head of the Kosher Law Enforcement Division. “As part of his duties, he will work to protect consumers by ensuring compliance with the certification, record keeping and signage requirements relating to kosher food, and […]
By JTA
The famous Girl Guides cookies now have the OU approval as being kosher thanks to an all-Orthodox troop in Canada, but their chocolate mint cookies still are on the forbidden list. All Girl Scout cookies in the United States have been kosher for at least 20 years, said organization spokesman Stewart Goodbody. When the 31 […]
Now quinoa is OK for Pesach says the OU.
The Knesset will discuss and vote on a new bill to give official kosher food inspectors powers to make sure that restaurants and other public places that are certified as kosher live up to their commitment. The Israeli media immediately labeled the supervisors the “Kashrus Police,” implying some kind of Saudi or Iranian religious goon […]
One judge wondered how meat could be considered kosher, if the employees of the kosher slaughtering firm "just passed on the cows."
A federal judge has ordered the Florida prisons service to provide kosher meals to all prisoners with a “sincere religious basis” by July 1. The Florida Department of Corrections canceled its kosher meal service six years ago, citing the expense and has since promised to reinstitute its kosher meal service in all its facilities. It […]
By Kosher Today
Snack food manufacturers are increasingly turning to the Orthodox Union for kosher certification to expand their markets during the Passover holiday. Classic Foods announced last week that the company and its branded snack products will be kosher for Passover, under the certification of the OU, which will put Kettle Classics, California Classics, and Baked Classics […]
By JTA
Eli’s Restaurant, a popular kosher eatery in Washington frequented by politicians, will move instead of closing down. After announcing in October that the restaurant would close because of a redevelopment project, it announced this week that it would move three blocks from its current location at the southeast corner of the intersection of N and […]
By Kosher Today
Some memories are so strong that they can smell the kosher food that used to be de facto Jewish law in New York City’s Lower East Side. Play it again, Shmuel.
A Canadian rabbi has created a new kind of Kosher certification named “Kosher Check” that not only makes sure foods are kosher under Jewish dietary laws but also monitors manufacturers to make sure they conform to food-safety controls. Rabbi Avraham Feigelstock, who sits on the Vancouver Rabbinical Court, said, "Approval will be predicated on food […]
Thank God it won’t happen again until 2070, and then in 2165, and then almost never. This may be your last chance to gobble up – or to avoid gobbling up – turkey-filled doughnuts for Thanksgivukkah.
By JTA
Quebec’s agricultural minister is looking to tighten regulations for kosher and halal meat production. “We want the slaughter to happen in the most complete conditions of hygiene and cleanliness,” Quebec Minister of Agriculture François Gendron said, in comments reported by Montreal radio station CJAD last week. The minister said he would announce a plan for […]
By Kosher Today
The departure of the head of the Kosher Law Enforcement Division of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets has created a vacuum in which many consumers have charged that there are many incidents of misrepresentations of kosher foods. KosherToday has learned that the Department is looking for a replacement for Rabbi Luzer […]
Glatt kosher hotdog manufacturer Abeles & Heymann is donating $10,000 in hotdogs to the Masbia soup kitchen.
The Lithuanian parliament has taken the first steps to legal ritual slaughter in what could be move that turns the tide against the wave of initiatives in Europe to defend the “rights of animals” as a higher priority that freedom of religious practices. “The fact that Lithuania currently holds the Presidency of the European Union […]
By Kosher Today
Overlooked in the eulogies and praise of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the role he played in the development of the kosher certification, Badatz Beit Yosef, under the leadership of his youngest son Rabbi Moshe Yosef. The Beit Yosef kosher standard meticulously follows the standards of Rabbi Yosef Caro, the author of the codification of Jewish […]
It's never a good idea to try to convert the Rabbi.
Sometimes anti-Semitism is its own best antidote because it makes its sewage makers look as ignorant as they are. After a Council of Europe body said circumcision violates human rights, its leader rejected the idea.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Wonder Bread, fresh off its post-bankruptcy revival, will get kosher certification in the New York area from the Orthodox Union (OU), according to an OU bulletin. The kosher Wonder Bread won’t be sold everywhere, but approved products will bear the OU’s symbol on their packaging. Previously, Wonder Bread was certified by the Triangle-K, which is […]
Hey, buddy! Can you spare 14 dimes for a cup of coffee? That is the price for a cut of caffeine at a new low-cost tale-away chain that plans to take Israel by storm with 300 branches in three years. The “Cofix" chain opened its first café in Tel Aviv Monday, charging at least half […]
By Kosher Today
Several kosher food manufacturers and distributors introduced new products in time for the Jewish holidays as part of an overall push to gain an edge over competitors. For some, the timing of the introduction was designed to coincide with what several termed “a period of time when you have the customer’s attention.” In the major […]
By Kosher Today
Israel’s national snack food is Bamba, made by Osem, in which Nestle has a major stake. Strauss Foods is partly owned by Pepsi. Now China wants to buy Israel Tnuva. Will McDonald’s buy out falafel stands?
By JTA
The directors of the Jewish Community Center of Krakow and the Krakow Islamic Center are joining forces to fight Poland’s ban on Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter. Jonathan Ornstein, the JCC’s executive director, and Dr. Hayssam Obeidat, director of the Islamic Center, issued a joint open letter Tuesday saying their “communities stand united and call […]
A kashrus agency should be concerned with one thing and one thing only: the kosher status of our food.
The Manischewitz Company, leader and innovator in Kosher foods, announces the beta version debut of their free Kosher Recipe App now available for download on all Apple and Android devices. The Manischewitz Recipe & Holiday Guide app makes its debut just in time for the fall Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Notable […]
A dream come true for would-be Kosher Starbucks lovers may become reality if Starbucks goes through with plans to replace a non-kosher extra for Strawberries & Crème Frappuccino and other products that contain cochineal extracts. The extract for the drinks come from insects, which also bother veggies, and the company is planning to use a […]
Assign each of your children his or her inheritance so that there is less chance for any controversy when you and your husband have passed on.
You never give me your money / You only give me your funny paper / And in the middle of negotiations / You break down. (Lennon/McCartney)
By JTA
Jewish volunteers have finished building a kitchen the size of a basketball court in Uman, Ukraine, where they plan to prepare 105,000 meals to serve an expected 20,000 Jews visiting and praying at the burial site of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. The new kitchen, donated by philanthropist and entrepreneur Steve Bogomilsky of Florida, replaced a […]
Thirty-eight Sejm members representing Tusk’s ruling Civic Platform party joined with the opposition in voting to outlaw ritual slaughter.
By Chabad.org
Preliminary thoughts on the halachic status of lab-created meat: it's kosher--if you started the process kosher. but no final words yet.
By JTA
It’s not enough that kosher ersatz bacon is on the market. Now it’s kosher cheeseburgers, from “meat” grown in a lab, waiting for the cheese. The lab-grown burger cost only $325,000 to make. Two to go?
By JTA
A French senator said she will complain to police over death threats she received after proposing special labels for halal and kosher meat. Sylvie Goy-Chavent of the centrist UDI party will lodge a complaint with police over the threats and online “calls for civil war and a call for the Israeli government to attack France,” […]
In Old Jerusalem, you need an archaeologist before you can build a restaurant. That is how the Israel Antiquities Authority discovered a 19-foot high Crusade-era hospital building.
By JTA
Poland’s chief rabbi said he will resign if a definitive ban on kosher slaughter is imposed in the country. “I cannot imagine serving as chief rabbi in a country in which the rights of the Jewish religion are curtailed, as I would not be able then to serve properly my coreligionists,” Rabbi Michael Schudrich wrote […]
By JTA
Campaigning against ritual slaughter on the grounds of “animal rights’ is a popular tactic to make lives difficult for Jews and Muslims. Take Poland, for example.
By JTA
A Bialystok court has asked the Polish Constitutional Tribunal to rule on whether the country’s ban on ritual slaughter is compliant with the constitutional freedom of religion. The case is connected to the ritual slaughter of one cow which took place in March in Tykocin. Poland on January 1 banned slaughter without stunning, a requirement […]
By JTA
Marijuana is not milk or dairy; it is not an animal whose kashrus is questionable. Rabbis have ruled it’s not kosher to take drugs to escape the world, but one rules “grass” for medical purposes is kosher.
Exports of Israeli Foods and Beverages to the United States reached a record $224 million in 2012, reported Kosher Today, which attributed the statistics to the Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute. While it spelled a 3% increase over 2011, it represented nearly 50% growth since 2008 when exports were valued at only $144 million. […]
By JTA
Israel may ban the “foie gras” delicacy because it is made from force-fed geese. If Israel is so concerned about animal rights, European Jews may face another aim to ban kosher slaughter.
By JTA
Organizers of a Jewish festival in Budapest said they will try to set a world record for the tallest kosher sandwich. Dozens of bread slices will be used to construct the tower on Sunday on Kazinczy Street in the Hungarian capital’s so-called Jewish Quarter during the sixth Judafest cultural street party, organizers said on Facebook. […]
Yogurtland, a leading frozen yogurt chain, is following the lead of Dunkin Donuts, Baskin Robbins and The Coffee Bean and has launched its first kosher store, the Beverly Connection location in Los Angeles. The store is under the kosher supervision of the Rabbinical Council of California, according to the Kosher Today newsletter. Yogurtland’s self-serve frozen […]
Israeli restaurants and hotels are more interested n seeking kosher certification from the American-based Orthodox Union (OU) in order to attract foreign tourists, according to the Kosher Today newsletter. It said that many American Jewish tourists generally are more familiar with the OU than Israeli rabbinic certifications. The OU operates in Israel in an office […]
A New York Daily News headline writer needs a quick course in kosher dietary laws after an overly cute headline tried to get across the message that moose lasagna is not kosher if pork is used. As most Jews and many non-Jews know, Jewish law forbids eating milk products and meat products together. Even if […]
