January 19, 2015
5:31 pm

An illustrative photo of a slab of meat (Photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Paraguay slaughterhouse faces kosher-fraud allegations

Rabbinate threatens to revoke factory’s seal of approval after supervisor claims workers mislabeled improperly slaughtered meat

By Times of Israel staff

October 20, 2014
7:56 pm

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

German kosher butcher sold non-kosher meat for years

Partners say they devised plot to stave off bankruptcy

By JTA

September 23, 2014
5:25 pm

Illustrative photo of chickens on their way to be slaughtered (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Lithuania okays ritual slaughter amid Moscow embargo

Locked out of Russian market, move will enable Vilnius to export meat to Arab world and Israel

By AFP

September 19, 2014
2:16 pm

Chief Rabbi of the IDF Rabbi Rafi Peretz, February 23, 2012. (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Farmers: IDF has declared war on Israeli agriculture

Growers’ group slams Defense Ministry decision to adhere to ultra-Orthodox interpretation of the Sabbatical year

By Mitch Ginsburg

July 2, 2014
6:47 pm

Gaucher disease medication gets kashrut certification

From the web CNBC: Elelyso, made by Pfizer, is the first drug to be certified kosher by the ‘OU’ — or anyone else

March 22, 2014
5:55 am

Kosher-certified, artificially flavored bacon Ritz crackers recently hit the shelves. (photo credit: JTA)

Kosher bacon Ritz crackers hit shelves

Some Jews feel uncomfortable with new product, despite strictly artificial flavoring, says rabbi

By Adam Soclof

March 14, 2014
11:53 pm

Illustrative photo of a representative of Israel's Chief Rabbinate inspecting a suspicious kosher certificate at a food stand in Jerusalem (photo credit: Rubin Salvadori/Flash90/File)

Quebec premier defends candidate over kashrut remarks

Pauline Marois says her Parti Quebecois is not anti-Semitic

By JTA

March 7, 2014
7:29 am

Merav Mizrachi and Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz outside Cafe Mizrachi, in Mahane Yehuda (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Redefining kashrut in Jerusalem

Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz of the Yerushalmim movement and his team of supervisors hit the community’s cafes

By Jessica Steinberg

January 24, 2014
11:58 am

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

Volunteer kashrut board formed in LA post meat scandal

Certification revocation of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats pre-Passover spurs stricter measures

By JTA

December 24, 2013
2:12 am

Hebrew National hot dogs (photo credit: Stephen Cummings/CC-BY via Flickr)

Court to rule on appeal in Hebrew National case

Attorneys for the hot dogs and lunch meats company say issue of kashrut is religious in nature, not for US courts

By JTA

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

Topic: kashrut

Paraguay slaughterhouse faces kosher-fraud allegations

Rabbinate threatens to revoke factory’s seal of approval after supervisor claims workers mislabeled improperly slaughtered meat

German kosher butcher sold non-kosher meat for years

Partners say they devised plot to stave off bankruptcy

Lithuania okays ritual slaughter amid Moscow embargo

Locked out of Russian market, move will enable Vilnius to export meat to Arab world and Israel

Farmers: IDF has declared war on Israeli agriculture

Growers’ group slams Defense Ministry decision to adhere to ultra-Orthodox interpretation of the Sabbatical year

Gaucher disease medication gets kashrut certification

From the web CNBC: Elelyso, made by Pfizer, is the first drug to be certified kosher by the ‘OU’ — or anyone else

Kosher bacon Ritz crackers hit shelves

Some Jews feel uncomfortable with new product, despite strictly artificial flavoring, says rabbi

Quebec premier defends candidate over kashrut remarks

Pauline Marois says her Parti Quebecois is not anti-Semitic

Redefining kashrut in Jerusalem

Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz of the Yerushalmim movement and his team of supervisors hit the community’s cafes

Volunteer kashrut board formed in LA post meat scandal

Certification revocation of Doheny Glatt Kosher Meats pre-Passover spurs stricter measures

Court to rule on appeal in Hebrew National case

Attorneys for the hot dogs and lunch meats company say issue of kashrut is religious in nature, not for US courts

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

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

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

‘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

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

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