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Need a kosher meal? At the world’s largest furniture market, Chabad delivers
By Yonat Shimron — April 27, 2023
HIGH POINT, N.C. (RNS) — For the past 10 years, Chabad of Greensboro has been renting a showroom at the High Point Furniture Market where Jews in the furniture industry can come to rest, pray and eat homemade kosher meals while they’re in town.
‘Is this kosher?’ Jewish billboards in LA call for humane eating practices.
By Alejandra Molina — April 20, 2023
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The billboards went up this week as part of a campaign launched by the Jewish Initiative for Animals against factory farming.
Eggs are in short supply. The crisis is bigger than a nontraditional Seder plate.
By Jonathan Bernhard — April 4, 2023
(RNS) — Let our missing Passover eggs prompt us to think about the meaning of kosher.
Is cultured meat the kosher way to go?
By Mark Silk — February 6, 2023
And if we have cultured beef, is the real thing eco-kosher?
A food truck at Duke University offers a truce to rising tensions on Mideast politics
By Yonat Shimron — October 11, 2022
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — The Yalla food truck serves food that meets the most stringent dietary needs of two constituencies: Jews and Muslims. The food is both certified kosher and halal.
‘Traditional’ Jewish American foods keep changing, with cookbooks playing an influential role in how Jews mark Rosh Hashana
By Deborah Dash Moore — September 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — A historian of American Judaism explains how cookbooks across the 20th century have influenced and reflected the shifting tastes of American Jews.
San Antonio rabbi sanctifies Shabbat with Texas-style BBQ brisket
By Saar Shahar — May 20, 2022
(RNS) — Slow-cooked brisket proves to be a valuable means for bringing Jews to a Shabbas meal.
The Passover meal has already made room for vegan entrees. Next up? Cell-based meat
By Yonat Shimron — April 11, 2022
(RNS) — In recent years, many Jews have passed over the brisket, chicken, chopped liver and even the gefilte fish. How will they take to cell-cultured meat?
Why Jewish ritual slaughter bans are unnecessary — and harmful to Jewish life
By Avi Shafran — November 4, 2021
(RNS) — Greece’s interference with ritual butchering methods could decimate its already small Jewish population.
Inducting a Jew into the Hall of Fame on Rosh Hashana? What is the MLB thinking?
By Joshua Hammerman — July 9, 2021
(RNS) — What would Sandy Koufax do?
This Passover, kosher pig’s on the menu
By Joshua Hammerman — March 25, 2021
(RNS) — Modern Jewish life is filled with kosher pigs, utter inconsistencies we sometimes hardly notice; but they are there, and they are enlightening.
Ruling brings kosher slaughterhouse new business, old fears
By Justin Spike — January 28, 2021
(AP) — The European Union’s highest court upheld a law in Belgium’s Flanders region prohibiting slaughtering animals without first stunning them into unconsciousness.
Banning circumcision is an unnecessary bar to Jewish belonging in Europe
By Andrew Baker — November 19, 2020
(RNS) — As European governments have woken to the need to fight anti-Semitism, they should adopt a common approach to guarantee this religious practice.
Diet and free exercise: who gets to say whose belief is sincere?
By Brian Britt — June 20, 2019
(Sightings) — In the Masterpiece Cake case, Justice Kennedy wrote, “The reason and motive for the baker’s refusal were based on his sincere religious beliefs and convictions.” How did he know? How can we ever know?
Entrepreneur markets interfaith meats to combat surge in religious hate crimes
By Jonathan Harounoff — May 16, 2019
NEW YORK (RNS) — An Iranian-American interfaith activist and businessman is looking to unite the Muslim and Jewish communities by producing meats that satisfy both faiths' dietary laws.
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