Bite Your Tongue
Attending a yom tov seudah and spotting an inviting platter of beef tongue on the table is the ultimate test of fortitude. Your mind immediately starts wondering if taking a slice means entering into a mutual tasting…
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Kashrus and Food
Shechitah
Kosher slaughter, treifos and checking animals.
A Wedding Menu to Remember
On a crisp, torch-lit night in eleventh-century Baghdad, the air carried more than the usual scent of roasted almonds, cardamom, and the damp clay of the Tigris. It carried the palpable weight of a changing era.
Egg-cellent Advice
Our past two articles ruffled some feathers by focusing entirely on chickens. This week, we are switching gears to look at the poultry world’s ultimate nest egg: the egg itself.
The Tendon Tempest
For the vast majority of kosher consumers, the process of bringing chicken from the farm to the table seems straightforward. We know about shechita and melicha.
Birds of a Feather: The Great Chicken Controversies
In 2004, the global kosher market experienced a sudden jolt over the ubiquitous Leghorn chicken. For decades, the white Leghorn had been the commercial gold standard for egg production in the United States and Israel.
From Savanna to Supper?
An inquisitive youngster might ask his father, “Why don’t we eat giraffe?” The old, popular answer was that we simply don’t know where along the long neck to perform shechitah.
The Watermelon Mystery: From Chullin to the Dessert Table
A friend of mine once noticed a peculiar habit of his mother-in-law: whenever watermelon was served for dessert at a Shabbos meal, she would always eat it with a challah.
Kosher Questions
When Ben & Jerry’s announced a few years ago that they would stop selling their ice cream in certain parts of Israel, many kosher supermarkets and community organizations in the diaspora initiated a counter-boycott…
Why Your Pet Rock is Not Muktzeh
In the 1970s, one inexpensive gift to give a loved one was a Pet Rock. For those who are unfamiliar with it, a Pet Rock is like you probably imagined it – just a rock.
The Noble Pas Price
There is a commonly accepted custom to eat only pas Yisrael during the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah. Our bread, bagels, cakes, and muffins should all come from Jewish bakeries during the Ten Days of Repentance.
Glatt Or Not?
There are words that lose their original definition over time and take on a different meaning. This is certainly true of Yiddish words that have become standard in our vocabulary.
Trimming The Fat
Daf yomi learners began Chulin last week. Chulin is required learning for those studying for semichah. It primarily deals with issues relating to the preparation of kosher meat.
Gemara stories on Shechitah
Rav, Rabba bar bar Channa and the Cut Windpipe
An animal with a partly cut windpipe comes before Rav, who leaves it undecided; Rabba bar bar Channa then rules it kosher and even buys its meat.