Kashrut

'We wanted to keep Shabbat': Benny Hadayag seafood restaurant in Herzliya becomes kosher - review

“We wanted to keep Shabbat; it’s that simple,” the manager told us. “My father goes out every day into the sea and whatever he catches is on the menu that evening and the next day.”

The main course at Benny Hadayag was a platter with a whole baked sea bass alongside sweet and regular potatoes (NIS 155-165).
Haredi soldier

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

KASHRUT CERTIFICATION at a Jerusalem eatery – will the rabbinate’s monopoly be broken?

Knesset repeals 2021 kashrut reform, restores Rabbinate control over certification

 A WOMAN walks past a Jerusalem eatery with a Tzohar kashrut certificate.

Tzohar asks High Court to reject state's bid to void kashrut license


Orthodox Union launches national kosher food pantry

The Kosher Food Lifeline is designed to help the at least 215 food agencies in 24 states that provide food to individuals and families.

Rabbi Menachem Genack (left) and Rabbi Moshe Elefant of the Orthodox Union

U.S. antisemitism envoy calls Europe’s kosher meat bans ‘forced expulsion'

Elan Carr called legislation in some European countries limiting the ritual slaughter of animals and circumcision of boys a “disgraceful forced expulsion” of Jews.

Elan Carr in Jerusalem.

Founder of private kashrut supervision to be honored

Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz will receive the Yashrut 'Game Changer' Leadership Award.

Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz and Baker’s Boulangerie and Patisserie owner Lior Glickman sign the ‘trust alliance’ certification.

Bimbo bread is back for kosher consumers

The company's announcement in November that it was dropping kosher certification on all their bread products created an uproar among kosher consumers.

Loaves of bread of Mexican breadmaker Grupo Bimbo are pictured at a convenience store in Monterrey, Mexico, August 6, 2018

Half of Israeli-Jewish population would like more non-Orthodox 'streams'

The survey was conducted for the Center for Religion, Nation and State and will be presented at the organization's annual conference at the IDI on Monday morning.

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Kashrut agencies force two NY restaurants to cancel lesbian comic

Jewish comedian Leah Forster says 'it is difficult to keep taking the high road when I keep being so personally attacked,'

Leah Forster

Alternative Orthodox kashrut authority certifies Sinai hotel

This upcoming Hanukkah, a Tzohar-trained and certified kashrut supervisor will provide full kosher supervision at the La Playa Beach Resort Taba Hotel.

Beduin ride camels in the Sinai Peninsula in 2006

IDF to appoint female kashrut supervisors

This is the first time the military rabbinate has opened the kashrut supervision course to women.

Male and female soldiers remember the fallen at a Remembrance Day ceremony on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl

Should Jews and Israel engage with Europe's populist, far-right parties?

Jews and Israel cannot give kashrut stamp to far-right parties, warns Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, head of the Conference of European Rabbis.

RABBI PINCHAS GOLDSCHMIDT: Jews become the collateral damage

Hatch hits it out of the park

It is with the food that Greenblatt’s skills really shine. Warning: this is not a great choice for vegans.

Hatch