Kosher

IDF reworking food procedures for military bases in effort to allow stricter kashrut standards

The change comes amid ongoing controversy over haredi (ultra-Orthodox) enlistment in the military and the term of service for religious soldiers.

Haredi soldier
CHABAD VOLUNTEERS assist World Series fans in putting on tefillin, 2016.

Wherever Jews wander, Chabad welcomes them home - opinion

The largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States is located in Postville, Iowa and has been renamed AgriStar.

Fire at kosher meat processing plant in Iowa shuts down production ahead of High Holidays

PAGODA TURRETS of Chateau Cos d’Estournel: The writer (L) with Menachem Israelievitch and Olivier Cuvelier.

Wine Talk: Kosher in Bordeaux


Cultivated meat and kashrut: What will the Kosher status be? - opinion

The question of the kosher status of cultivated meat products carries great significance for the future of kashrut and may lay the groundwork for entirely new precedents in this area.

 An employee works at a laboratory of Bene Meat Technologies company, which is planning to scale up production of lab-grown meat for use in pet food, in Prague, Czech Republic, November 7, 2023.

Health Ministry okays selling cultivated steaks in Israel

Cultivated meat needs to comply with specific standards and requirements to enter the kosher and halal markets.

Cultured mincemeat

Eyal Shani’s fast-casual Times Square restaurant is going kosher

The kitchen will be thoroughly cleaned and prepared according to kosher guidelines, and a certificate of kashrut from Rabbi Aaron Mehlman of National Kosher Supervision is expected to be issued.

 Tourist are passing New York City's popular Times Square during the summer of August 2017.

Druze village's restaurant goes kosher to provide free food to IDF soldiers, evacuees

The establishment, now the first kosher hub in the village, offers a daily menu of kosher meat dishes and authentic Druze cuisine.

 Druze residents hand out food to Israeli soldiers who guard on a road near the Israeli border with Lebanon, on October 9, 2023.

Hate or just a crime? Either way, Jewish restaurants are finding support after vandalism

When religious items are destroyed and no money is taken, can a break-in be called a hate crime?

 Philadelphia Jewish restaurant faces 'genocide' chants by hundreds of anti-Israel protesters

Israel's chief rabbi: Secular Jews have lower intelligence, are jealous of haredim

"They do not find satisfaction in life; everything is driven by the desires of this world," Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said.

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

How to keep kosher on a non-kosher trip - comment

There are two ways to keep kosher on a non-kosher cruise: Here's how.

Norwegian Cruise Line ship

Orthodox Union certifies Israeli brand of lab-grown meat as kosher — but not parve

The agency decided to mark it as meat because it’s derived from an animal and looks exactly like meat.

 Kashrut certificates outside a restaurant in Jerusalem.

How a religious revival fed the demise of the Midtown kosher deli

Most of the kosher delis in New York were historically open on Shabbat, from the heyday of the kosher deli in the 1930s to today.

 The faux Art Deco interior of the former Ben's Kosher Deli in Manhattan.

After 7 years, husband claims invalidity over non-kosher wedding venue

A couple lived together for years until the husband's religious transformation caused marital strife. He now claims their marriage isn't valid.