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Peanut butter pie with bacon at the 'Trefa Banquet 2.0.' (Lydia Daniller)
January 17, 2018, 10:50 am
Pulled pork potato kugel? Yes, it’s a thing
The original Trefa Banquet was an accident, but it divided American Jews forevermore
By Jonathan D. Sarna
Hanoch Steimeker, owner of the Hodu Hakatan restaurant in Beersheba. (Courtesy Hashgacha Pratit)
December 4, 2017, 3:11 pm
Alternative kosher certification group says Rabbinate intimidating its customers
Hashagach Pratit, taking on the state body that authorizes kosher food, decries fines handed out to eateries using its supervision
By TOI staff
October 19, 2017, 3:21 pm
The OU’s ridiculous birth control stand
The Orthodox Union's public support for limits on health insurance is both improper and dead wrong
By Eitan Kastner
The rabbi in charge of keeping the Sheraton Crown Plaza kosher uses a gas torch to burn away any traces of leavening in the hotel's kitchen, prior to the Passover holiday, Jerusalem, April 2, 2006. ( The Sheraton was not featured in Channel 10‘s probe). Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90
May 16, 2017, 4:59 pm
Israeli hotels ‘preventing non-Orthodox guests from prayer’ – TV probe
Channel 10 News says most Israeli hotels forbid egalitarian prayers for fear rabbinate will withdraw their kashrut licenses
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of Israelis sitting at a Tel Aviv cafe. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 10, 2017, 8:40 pm
Court orders end to direct employment of kosher inspectors by eateries
Chief Rabbinate told to prepare a new certification system by next year and have it up and running by September 2018
By TOI staff
Rabbi Avraham Yosef (r) and Rabbi David Yosef attend a ceremony in memory of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem on November 3, 2016. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)
April 24, 2017, 7:30 am
Ovadia Yosef’s son found guilty of breach of trust
Late Shas spiritual leader’s son Avraham, chief rabbi of Holon, demanded businesses use his brother's kosher supervision
By TOI staff
Is your pastrami really kosher? (iStock)
March 16, 2017, 2:40 pm
Is any meat today kosher?
Virtually all animal products are the result of practices that categorically contravene Jewish law and ethics
By David Rosen
Illustrative photo of kosher seals. (Photo credit: Kosher symbols image via Shutterstock.)
February 20, 2017, 3:31 am
Tennessee prison inmate sues for better kosher food
Jewish man serving 56-year sentence says prison administrators discriminating against him by providing subpar meals
By JTA
Customers sit at the Carousela restaurant, which was supervised by Hashgaha Pratit - Hebrew for private supervision - to check it abides by kosher practices, on June 8, 2016, in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood.(AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
January 16, 2017, 6:35 pm
Rabbinate concedes kosher supervision industry needs ‘fixing’
But religious body's director rejects Treasury report linking it to high food prices, dismisses 'monopoly' characterization
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative image of a Christmas tree (CC BY Johnny Lai, Flickr)
December 20, 2016, 2:40 pm
Jerusalem rabbis instruct hotels to drop Christmas trees
Israel's Chief Rabbinate says the city's directive, which also takes aim at New Year's parties, is a 'private initiative'
By TOI staff
Frank Reese, owner of the Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch, raises only heritage birds. In cooperation with the Jewish Initiative for Animals, his chicken is now available for kosher consumers. (Victor Wishna)
December 16, 2016, 10:28 pm
Now you can buy kosher artisanal chicken
Jewish Initiative for Animals partners with farmers to bring over 1,000 heritage chickens to kashrut-approved processing plants
By JTA
President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 1, 2016, 1:12 pm
Rivlin apologizes for proposing changes to religious status-quo
After raising ultra-Orthodox ire with suggestions that religious matters be decided locally, president says he was trying to ease tensions
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of Orthodox Jews walking on a street in Jerusalem during Shabbat. (Corinna Kern/Flash 90)
November 23, 2016, 11:51 am
Jerusalem cafés to ‘open for Shabbat,’ but not for business
New initiative looks to bring together secular and religious Jerusalemites on Friday nights at local coffee houses, without the coffee
By Jessica Steinberg
Commack Jewish Center in 1998 (left) at the bar mitzvah of Michael Weber (Courtesy: Mandi Kirschman) and (right) the same sanctuary space in July of 2016, as the new Church Unleashed (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
September 6, 2016, 2:06 am
How my childhood shul became a televangelist church
As Jewish facilities shut down across Long Island, a reporter returns to the synagogue of his youth -- recently purchased by televangelists affiliated with Joel Osteen
By Matt Lebovic
19-year-old kosher food truck entrepreneur Carly Meisel (Courtesy)
July 11, 2016, 10:01 pm
Freshman is driving force behind DC’s new kosher food truck
George Washington University student Carly Meisel starts business to satisfy demand for tasty, affordable food -- on campus and off
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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