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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 538

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Two Holocaust survivor families on the Vineland, New Jersey-area poultry farm they jointly purchased in 1947. From left to right: Dina and Dorothy Liverant, standing next to a visitor, with Ruth, Bronia, and Nuchim Grin, Seth Stern's mother and grandparents. (Photo courtesy of Stern)
September 2, 2023, 3:47 am
How Holocaust survivors flocked to NJ to start a thriving poultry farming industry
Seth Stern’s new book ‘Speaking Yiddish to Chickens’ tells how his grandparents joined thousands of other Jews in a plucky venture as they rebuilt their lives in rural America
By Rich Tenorio
A 'Keep Out' sign at Moshav Beit Herut in central Israel warns of a bird flu outbreak, November 28, 2022. (Agriculture Ministry)
November 28, 2022, 8:36 pm
Bird flu detected in Israel in 2nd case within days
Nature authorities closely monitoring wild birds, weighing whether to stop feeding cranes in northern Israel to prevent crowding, avoid risk of last year’s mass infection
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Agriculture Ministry inspectors at a coop on Kibbutz Rosh Tsurim, where bird flu was discovered, on March 8, 2011. (Gershon Elinson / FLASH90)
November 22, 2022, 11:37 pm
Bird flu found in northern Israel, same strain as catastrophic 2021 outbreak
Turkeys in slaughterhouse near Beit She’an are first cases of avian influenza this winter; surrounding farms quarantined as authorities look to prevent spread to wild birds
By Sara Serfaty
An undated picture of laying hens in a cage. (Animals Now)
June 20, 2022, 11:37 pm
Cages for laying hens banned from new coops, to be phased out in existing ones
Knesset panel approves new animal welfare regulations that also ban starving hens to up egg production. Advocacy group lauds ‘victory for animals and public,’ after 13-year battle
By Sue Surkes
Agriculture Ministry staff work in protective gear to clean up dead cranes infected with Avian Influenza (bird flu) from the Hula Lake Reserve in northern Israel, January 2, 2022. (Moraz Brom/Flash90)
January 7, 2022, 5:05 pm
Bird flu outbreak in northern Israel ebbs; no humans harmed, officials say
Agriculture Ministry notes ‘encouraging recovery’ over past two days; cleanup efforts at Hula Lake Reserve expected to finish next week ahead of migration season
By ToI Staff
Ultra Orthodox Jews perform the Kapparot ceremony on September 13, 2021, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 14, 2021, 4:12 pm
Environment Ministry: Replace cruel chicken ‘kapparot’ with donations
Pre-Yom Kippur ritual of swinging live chickens around the head to absolve sin causes great suffering, says minister
By Sue Surkes
Chicken in crates and on the floor at the Off Hagalil poultry processor, in footage aired on February 2, 2020. (Screen capture: Channel 20)
February 2, 2021, 11:10 pm
Whistleblower footage shows filthy conditions at Galilee poultry plant
Ministry fires vet training to be inspector after he complains of Off HaGalil employees picking carcasses off floor and throwing them back onto production line
By Sue Surkes
Kulthum the chicken looking guilty after it was discovered where she was hiding all the eggs in Tel Aviv on May 25, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 7, 2020, 11:49 am
LISTEN: How to throw off the yoke of supermarkets and produce your own eggs
With the country experiencing an egg shortage before Passover, raising your own fowl could have kept you in steady supply even while cooped up
By Melanie Lidman
Remnants of 2,600-year-old chicken eggs discovered in the City of David by Dr. Eilat Mazar. (Bar-Ilan University)
April 14, 2019, 4:19 pm
Case cracked: 2,600-year-old chicken eggshells from Jerusalem put back together
High-tech reconstruction of unique eggshell trove — 1st evidence of chicken eggs on holy land diet — could affect the quantities of matzah some Jews eat on 1st night of Passover
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
File: A Kentucky Fried Chicken logo. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
February 20, 2019, 9:02 am
KFC set to relaunch in Israel
Previous attempt by fast food chain to gain foothold in Jewish state stumbled after fried chicken coating was made kosher
By JTA
A screen capture from video taken on October 5, 2018, of the aftermath of a suspected arson attack in the northern Israeli moshav of Bethlehem in the Galilee in which some 50,000 chickens were burned alive. (Screen capture: Twitter)
October 6, 2018, 12:22 am
50,000 chickens burned alive in suspected arson attack in northern Israel
Lawmakers denounce ‘agricultural terror’ as police open investigation into torching of 4 coops in Galilee farming community
By ToI Staff
The assembly line at Empire Kosher Poultry’s plant in central Pennsylvania is the largest kosher one of its kind in America, with 240,000 chickens and 27,000 turkeys passing through every week. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
November 10, 2017, 6:35 pm
In US, Empire recalls 5 tons of contaminated kosher chicken breasts
Fears of foreign non-edible materials, like metal, in product with expiry dates of Nov. 14, 16 and 17
By JTA
Illustrative image of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in a religious neighborhood in Ashdod performing 'kapparot' ritual before Yom Kippur. (Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)
September 14, 2017, 6:25 pm
California animal rights group sues to end pre-Yom Kippur chicken ritual
San Diego Animal Protection and Rescue League demands police prevent Chabad of Irvine’s kapparot ceremony
By JTA
A four-year-old Indonesian black macaque named Niv holds a young chicken at the Ramat Gan Safari Park near Tel Aviv on August 25, 2017 after she adopted the bird when it wondered into their enclosure. (Jack Guez/AFP)
August 25, 2017, 3:55 pm
Loveless monkey adopts chicken at Israeli zoo
Four-year-old Indonesian macaque named Niv opts to adopt a fowl after having difficulty finding a partner at the Ramat Gan Safari
By AFP
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
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