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Impossible Foods has unveiled its latest plant-based meat product: Impossible Pork (Impossible Foods/ via JTA)
October 3, 2021, 5:01 am
World’s largest kosher certifier won’t endorse Impossible Pork
While the Orthodox Union described the Impossible Burger as an ‘excellent product,’ its faux-porcine counterpart elicits a ‘visceral’ reaction from many observant consumers
By jacob gurvis
A high school football coach and his staff in Canton, Ohio, are in hot water for disciplining a Jewish student by forcing him to eat a pepperoni pizza. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images, JTA)
June 3, 2021, 10:15 pm
Hebrew Israelite student in Ohio forced to eat pork after missing practice
Football team coach and 7 of his staff suspended after punishing 17-year-old by making him eat pepperoni pizza
By Asaf Shalev
Tara Rios was arraigned with first-degree harassment as a hate crime for throwing pork chops at a synagogue (Screencapture/ WRGB Albany via JTA)
January 28, 2020, 12:52 am
Woman charged with hate crime for throwing pork chops at upstate NY synagogue
After tossing package of pork products at Congregation Anshe Emeth in Greenport, Tara Rios returned at 3 a.m. to photograph her work
By JTA
Pigs at a farm in Goudelin, western France, on February 13, 2019. (Damien Meyer/AFP)
November 3, 2019, 8:07 pm
Demanding the impossible, Israel says pork can only be imported if it’s kosher
Netanyahu’s caretaker government quietly changes regulations to bar entry of pig products into country, though domestic production remains intact
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A spicy pork chop with Creole mustard sauce, January 23, 2017. (Sara Moulton via AP)
January 8, 2018, 11:28 pm
French mayor roasted after scrapping pork-free school lunches
Minister denounces move as anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish; National Front municipal chief of Beaucaire claims food is ‘anti-Republican’
By AFP
In this May 6, 2014 file photo, French chef Xavier Lebeau poses with a plate of Quenelles de Brochet (pike fish) with Green Haricot beans and Champignons de Paris (Paris mushrooms), at the Saint Pierre de Chaillot school in Paris, France. France has been grappling with how to reconcile religious beliefs with secular values when it comes to pork in school lunches, with one lawmaker’s solution: vegetarian meals. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
August 31, 2017, 3:57 am
French schools ordered to reinstate no-pork lunches for Jewish, Muslim students
Judge rules that lack of alternative ‘not in keeping with the spirit’ of international convention on children’s rights
By JTA
Illustrative photo of Danish pork chops (YouTube screenshot)
October 3, 2016, 4:57 pm
Dangerous superbug found in UK retail pork
MRSA discovered in several samples from two leading supermarkets; bacteria can have serious health consequences
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of Danish pork chops (YouTube screenshot)
January 22, 2016, 4:03 am
Danish city makes pork mandatory in public institutions
Politicians insist directive necessary to preserve food traditions; is not an attack on Muslims
By JAN M. OLSEN
Pig carcasses strewn on a Rishon Lezion city street on December 14, 2015. (Rishon Lezion Municipality spokesperson)
December 14, 2015, 12:46 pm
Swine carcasses strewn on Rishon Lezion street
Ton of pork falls off truck in central Israel en route to sausage factory; veterinary services send meat for destruction
By Lee Gancman
The percentage of Jews who said religion is important to them rose from 31 to 35 percent since 2007, the Pew Research Center found. (Shutterstock, via JTA)
November 4, 2015, 4:25 pm
57% of US Jews eat pork, and 9 other findings from new Pew study
Latest religiosity survey shows rise in Torah study, slight fall in belief in God
By Uriel Heilman
Stray cats eating near a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem. October 23, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 3, 2015, 11:55 pm
Fluffy, and 8 other things Israel tried to expel
Cats join the British, Israeli Arabs, the West Bank, Hanin Zoabi pork and, er, Cat Stevens, in the list of things the Jewish state sought to rid itself of
By Ben Sales and ToI Staff
Illustrative image: Caged pigs in Thailand. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 13, 2015, 2:56 am
US prisons cut pork from menus
Pig products removed from federal penitentiaries due to cost, low reviews, to the benefit of Jewish, Muslim inmates
By JTA
Illustrative photo of schoolchildren taking an exam. (Shutterstock)
September 6, 2015, 3:50 pm
In secular France, are vegetarian school meals the answer?
Lawmaker plans a bill on non-meat meals, as Jews and Muslims embrace private schools in quest for kosher and halal fare
By Marianne Barriaux
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders greets fairgoers as he tours the Iowa State Fair on August 15, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)
August 16, 2015, 3:38 am
Choppers and chops but little policy as 2016 hopefuls butter up Iowa
Trump, Clinton and Sanders all draw large crowds at state fair, but front-runners prefer pork on a stick and helicopter rides to laying out positions from storied soapbox
By AP
Illustrative photo of meat (YouTube screen capture)
August 13, 2015, 9:09 pm
Bid to keep pork substitutes in French schools rebuffed
Muslim leader criticizes court decision; lawyers on both sides say ruling not final
By Jamey Keaten
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