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Topic: kashrut

August 15, 2013
5:44 pm

Kosher cheeseburger? (Illustrative photo credit: Wikipedia Commons)

A sign of the end of days, via a petri dish

With the announcement of the world’s first stem-cell burger, religious Jews are anxious to hear if it will be called meat or parve

By Debra Kamin

August 9, 2013
2:56 pm

The world’s first lab-grown burger could be parve and thus paired with dairy products. (David Parry/PA Wire)

Has the era of the kosher cheeseburger arrived?

Beef created in a lab — unveiled to worldwide fanfare on Monday — could vastly expand the menu for observant Jews

By Talia Levin

August 8, 2013
10:42 am

Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, left, and Rabbi Menachem Margolin of the Chabad-affiliated Rabbinical Centre of Europe have been at odds publicly over Schudrich's handling of the kosher slaughter ban in Poland. (Creative Commons/Facebook via JTA)

Rival rabbis’ knives come out over Polish shechitah ban

Competing clerics battle each other rather than opponents of kosher slaughter, as religious turf war escalates

By Cnaan Liphshiz

June 18, 2013
5:13 am

A French farmer force feeds a goose as part of the production of foie gras (photo credit: CC BY, Jerome S, Wikimedia Commons)

‘Israeli goose liver ban jeopardizes kosher slaughter’

Prohibition on trade in foie gras ‘give a weapon to our enemies’ in animal rights groups, says head of Paris’s rabbinical court

May 16, 2013
11:50 am

A rabbi sharpens the knife to be used for traditional Jewish slaughter (illustrative photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

After ban, Poland may reinstate kosher slaughter

Farmers, producers and now lawmakers say they regret kibosh being put on kosher and halal meat in deference to animal rights

By Vanessa Gera

May 2, 2013
6:55 pm

What keeping kosher can teach us about dieting

Why is it easier to follow religious dietary laws than to stick to a diet? Readers are welcome to weigh in on the question

By Joshua Kulp

April 21, 2013
7:14 pm

Rabbi Shlomo Shalush (photo credit: screen capture Channel1/YouTube)

Police want Haifa’s chief rabbi charged with bribery, fraud

Shlomo Shalush allegedly abused power over kashrut issues, extorted municipal employee

By Aaron Kalman

April 5, 2013
2:04 am

Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats will open under new management soon after being shut down because its owner smuggled uncertified meat into the popular Los Angeles market (photo credit: JTA)

The rabbi who saved Passover

LA Jews spared from serving a vegetarian Seder meal by a last-minute Kashrut ruling

By Gil Shefler

March 31, 2013
2:20 pm

Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher slaughtering a chicken (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

LA meat merchant loses kashrut license on eve of Passover

Shop owner was videotaped bringing unsealed boxes of chicken into the store without rabbinic supervision

March 24, 2013
11:57 am

Chocolate can add bittersweet insights to the traditional seder. ((Photo credit: CC BY/John Loo via Flickr.com)

Sweet! Chocolate adds flavor to traditional seders

Replacing ritual dishes with cocoa-filled substitutes can spark discussions about the modern meaning of the Exodus

By Deborah Prinz

March 11, 2013
4:40 am

After US, London too fears kosher chicken shortage

Virus damaging birds threatens to see poultry prices climb ahead of Passover due to reliance on imports

March 4, 2013
5:40 pm

The locusts are coming! Yum!

It’s a kosher delicacy: crunchy on the outside with a chewy center

By Natan Slifkin

February 8, 2013
5:45 pm

Seth Freedman, center, channeled disenchantment with Israel and his IDF service into a popular online column for Britain's Guardian newspaper. (Courtesy of Seth Freedman)

IDF vet turned author teases UK with Mossad alter ego

A former darling of British anti-Zionists, Seth Freedman mixes memoir with fiction in his provocative new novel

By Miriam Shaviv

December 23, 2012
6:22 am

Skiers who keep kosher now have a mountain of choices as they plan trips to the Alps. (photo credit: Courtesy of My One Hotel via JTA)

Jewish life is going downhill this winter — and that’s a good thing

With more options than ever for ‘kosher’ skiing, it’s snow big deal to book affordable trips to some of Europe’s best slopes