Tag: Kashrut

We can't help but wonder if this might not represent yet another sign for the end of civilization as we used to know it.

Waldhäusl claims he only wishes to protect animal rights in Austria.

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The cook lit a fire on Shabbat and cooked a packet of chickpeas for a vegetarian soldier. An officer who noticed this reported the incident to the battalion commander and the cook was court martialed.

The Rabbinical Council concluded its statement with a last-ditch effort to eliminate much of its decision, insisting that it "views the operation of the kashrut system by the religious councils as the correct alternative."

Abeles & Heymann hot dogs are making Aliyah, and they're launching at the US Embassy's 4th of July celebration in Israel.

Rabbi Eliyahu pointed out the troubling facts which were the basis for his statement against "Hashgacha Pratit."

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu accused a private kashrut organization of ignoring the sale of meat slaughtered in an Arab village to Jerusalem restaurants under their supervision.

The OU is planning an ad campaign condemning the mayor's failure to meet the nutritional needs of city children.

"Many manufacturers go through the expense of getting a kosher certification, then do nothing to tell the kosher consumer that their product is kosher."

The federal court will now decide the compensation due the Jewish prisoners for the years during which they were forced to "defile themselves by eating religiously prohibited food."

According to CFIA, 'this is the first case in Canada brought before a provincial court related to the misrepresentation of a kosher food product.'

The Shomrim volunteer neighborhood watch group handed out more than 300 slices of pizza to the emergency crews on the scene.

Very funny Israeli ad.

The natural choice for kashrut supervisors around the globe are the Chabad emissaries.

The kashrut supervisors union strongly opposes the reform, fearing that an open and transparent pay method would adversely affect their income.

Kosher airline meals are the most expensive type of airline meal served, costing nearly twice as much as standard meals, and offered at no additional cost.

As environmental and religious tit for tat go, in February Adalah fiercely condemned Israel's new 'Muezzin Law,' which set out to curb the imposition of Muslim calls to prayer on non-Muslims.

Denmark, Switzerland and New Zealand already prohibit kosher slaughter.

Have a wonderful, holiday, regardless of whether or not it is plague-infested…

So, go, download, study the material (as prescribed by halacha, come to think of it) and start the three-week countdown to the seder night … Now!

'The only way to know those facts is real shimush, seeing what is actually happening in the field.'

Dore Gold is So Tough, He Can Take on Chuck Norris

MK Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid) accused the chief rabbinate of enforcing inappropriate, capricious rules, saying, 'You can't count on the chief rabbinate's kosher certification because it is corrupt.'

Needless to say, B, who doesn't eat kosher, never mind knows much about the intricate laws of Kashrut, was surprised at the HR decision.

Chabad Rabbi Hanoch Hecht came in second, competing on the popular 'Chopped' cable TV foodie show.

"A man who turns his wife into an aguna and refuses to obey the judges' order to stop abusing her is not truly a man who values halakha and maintaining a Jewish lifestyle."

MK Bezalel Smotrich (Habayit Hayehudi) said it was "refreshing to see a conservative approach on the part of the Supreme Court."

One talkbacker said the kashrut certification is meaningless, because of the halachic concept of "minhag hamakom," the local practice. If it's been forbidden, it should stay so.

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