Pork
'A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig': A Hebrew, Talmud, rabbinic expert goes ‘whole hog’
At the beginning of the Second Temple period, in the Persian era of the 4th to 5th centuries BCE, pigs did not have a unique status; other animals were viewed as equally non-kosher.
Why the word 'pork' makes something kosher deemed non-kosher
Letters to the editor October 13, 2021: Ben & Jerry trip on a query
Impossible Pork shouldn't be kosher - opinion
Impossible Pork is here — but plant-based meat won’t be certified kosher
For Jews who keep kosher, the Impossible Burger has allowed some food experiences that would otherwise be off-limits because of the prohibition in dietary law on mixing milk and meat.
Cultured pork next order of business for MeaTech
Israeli food-tech company MeaTech announced that it will dedicate R&D assets to expand its offering to include mass production of cultivated pork, the most consumed meat across worldwide.
Medieval Islamic Sicily ate pork, study finds
Despite pork being forbidden in Islamic dietary law, a study found evidence that it was consumed in the rural areas of Sicily while the island was under Muslim rule in the Middle Ages.
Jewish student forced to eat pork after missing football training session
If the student refused, he would have been kicked off the team, and the entirety of the squad would have been forced to run extra exercise drills for his defiant behavior.
AstraZeneca says COVID vaccine pork-free, counters Indonesian Muslims
No evidence COVID vaccine contains pork, causes infertility - report
An open letter signed by more than 70 medical doctors sought to quash conspiracy theories circulating that the vaccine contains products that are non-kosher.
Los Angeles pop-up The Bad Jew serves nonkosher takes on Jewish deli food
The Bad Jew has been selling homemade pork-based deli sandwiches, and people – including Jews – are gobbling it up.
Italy seized and destroyed 9.5 tonnes of Chinese pork to stop disease
The illegally-imported pig meat was hidden under a shipment of vegetables from China in a storage facility near Padoa managed by a Chinese citizen.
Definitely not kosher: Haifa overrun by wild boars
It all started when the northern Israeli municipality halted efforts to keep down the pigs’ population.
A Christian enclave confronts a proposal to attract Muslim tourists
Lake Toba's local tourist industry has struggled since the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 2002 Bali bombing.
Kosher pork? Not so fast
There is certainly merit in examining this new technology from a broad, holistic perspective. Yet the leap from there to “kosher pork” seems tenuous and unnecessary.
