Why kosher cooking is good for the soul

Published on September 12, 2012

Cooking has been a passion for me, and passing on my knowledge and experience to a new kosher audience is one of my greatest joys. When my two earlier books were published — “Kosher Cuisine” and “Helen Nash’s Kosher Kitchen” — that joy was mingled with regret at having to exclude so many more appetizing dishes and ideas about cuisine, nutrition and a healthful approach to everyday meals.

It’s Not Easy Being “Fishy”

By Michael Israel
Published on August 20, 2012

Letters to the Editor: Gun control, Israel, kosher food at Jewish day schools

Published on August 15, 2012

We Grew Up With Bibi’s, and Bibi’s Grew Up With Us

By Louis Keene
Published on August 14, 2012

A Day with Gil Marks

By Michael Israel
Published on August 13, 2012

The Look: Shanghai Diamond Garden

By Louis Keene
Published on August 3, 2012

With special prayers and kosher food, Jewish London embracing Olympic spirit

Published on July 30, 2012

For Leslie Lyndon and the London Jewish community, it was a minor miracle.

The Road to New Jewish Cuisine

By Michael Israel
Published on July 9, 2012

Humbly Luxurious

By Michael Israel
Published on July 3, 2012

From which seeps the essence of Jeff’s Gourmet

By Louis Keene
Published on June 29, 2012

Stewing Over the Spanish Inquisition

By Michael Israel
Published on June 25, 2012

The Cure [RECIPE]

By Michael Israel
Published on June 19, 2012

Most prisoners who get a kosher meal are not Jewish

By Brad A. Greenberg
Published on May 2, 2012

Availability of kosher food aboard Titanic sheds light on immigration via England

Published on April 12, 2012

Of the 2,225 people aboard Titanic on its maiden voyage, 1,512 perished in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic when the ship went down in the early hours of April 15, 1912.

A New Kosher Market to Serve the Old Club

Published on April 4, 2012

In time for Passover, in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles, the Fairfax District’s Western Kosher market has opened a second location in the former site of the Kosher Club on Pico Boulevard. “This is about four times the size of our other store,” new owner David Kagan said. “We have brought in new shelving, refrigerator cabinets and lighting. We’ve repainted and polished the floor,” he added, speaking of the renovations to the former store that had closed in December 2011.

Kashrut and Mindfulness:  Savoring Fresh, Local Fare at La Seine

Published on September 27, 2011

This is a story about a dream afternoon I spent at La Seine, where chef Alex Reznik is cooking seasonal, farm-to-table, California-Asian … kosher food.

N.Y.  kosher law passes constitutional muster

Published on August 10, 2011

New York State's revised kosher law is constitutional, a federal judge ruled.

Nevada prisoner sues for access to kosher food

Published on June 7, 2011

A Jewish prisoner has taken legal action to prevent the shut-down of the kosher food programs in Nevada state prisons. Attorneys for Howard Ackerman say he’s an Orthodox Jew concerned by reports that the Department of Corrections in Nevada plans to discontinue kosher food service in state prisons within the week.

EasyJet apologizes for pork sandwiches

Published on February 23, 2011

EasyJet apologized to Jewish passengers who were offered ham melts and bacon baguettes. The budget airline has featured kosher and vegetarian sandwiches since its London-Tel Aviv route was introduced late last year, a spokeswoman told media outlets Tuesday. It is also the airline's policy not to have any pork products on board the planes on that route.

Montana inmate sues for kosher food

Published on February 1, 2011

An inmate in Montana Women's Prison is suing the state corrections office and prison officials for not providing her with kosher food. Shelley Tischler claimed in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Billings, Mont., that she is Jewish and eats kosher food. She claims that prison officials are denying her kosher food, and that fellow inmates and prison staff are directing slurs about her Jewish faith at her, according to The Billings Gazette.

Man-o-Man-o-Sephardic

By Rob Eshman
Published on October 22, 2009

Missing Matzah? It’s a Chain Store Problem

By Adam Wills
Published on April 24, 2008

The hunt for matzah stretched beyond the afikomen this year. A matzah shortage this week left many Southern California shoppers driving to multiple supermarkets in search of the unleavened bread, which plays a leading role during Passover seders and is used throughout the week.

Top tastes of Purim wrapped up together

By Judy Zeidler
Published on March 20, 2008

The theme for our family Purim dinner this year will be blintzes, but the preparation will be a little different and will include ingredients that are symbolic for the holiday.

Certifying kosher food in China keeping rabbis busy

By Alison Klayman
Published on March 20, 2008

With the kosher certification of more than 300 food factories in China, each producing multiple products, America's largest kosher-certification company, the Orthodox Union (OU), has more than doubled the number of certifications it does in China just in the past two years.

Gourmet kosher brings out fear factor

By Julie G Fax
Published on August 9, 2007

Locust -- dried, fried and certified -- was the last item on the menu at The Prime Grill in Beverly Hills last Sunday night, where the Orthodox Union hosted its first Los Angeles "Halachic Adventure," a gastronomic, anthropological and academic safari through the traditions of kosher animals. The 15-course meal at The Prime Grill was the highlight of a three-day conference for lay people and kashrut experts on the latest in the ancient traditions of what observant Jews consider divinely sanctioned food.

Prager; CAIR; Gibson; The Boot!

Published on December 14, 2006

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A kosher steakhouse for BH? Well done!

By Roberto Loiederman
Published on November 30, 2006

New York's upscale The Prime Grill, coming to Beverly Hills this week, isn't your father's glatt kosher restaurant.For one thing, it's a high-end steak house that also specializes in sushi. For another, the management expects it to become a destination for high-powered meetings and high-profile celebrities.They go so far as to claim that the opening here means Los Angeles is finally catching up to New York in the Jewish culinary big leagues.

Boy Scouts Blend Values at Shul Tent

By Aliza Karp
Published on August 25, 2005

When Boy Scout troop 711 from Alaska lost four of its leaders in a freak electrical accident on the first day of the recent National Scout Jamboree here, the one Jewish Scout in the Alaska contingent was left in a quandary.

On the Sunday morning of the gathering, when jamboree activities were suspended for a few hours, all of Noah Magen's troop mates were headed to religious services for their respective faiths. But what does a Jewish Scout do on Sunday?

For Noah, the answer was the Shul Tent, where daily services and special programming were provided for Jewish Scouts.

Market Chain Adds

By Andrea Adelson
Published on April 1, 2004

Sheryl Krok often drives from Irvine to Los Angeles on business for her cleaning products line. But before the South African immigrant returns home, Krok makes a kosher pit stop, buying a month's supply of chicken to feed her carnivorous family of five.

"Because, hello! Irvine doesn't know there are kosher Jews down here," said Krok, who would be happy to give up bulk buying.

A More Reliable Kosher Label

By Julie G Fax
Published on January 22, 2004

There was a time when a half-moon K on a carton of cottage cheese didn't mean much to someone who kept strictly kosher. Conventional wisdom held that the heksher (the kosher symbol) was not all that reliable.

Today, things are changing at Kosher Overseers (KO), which supervises about 1,000 companies worldwide and has its bulging K on more than 1 million products.

A Touch of Tomchei

By Rachel Brand
Published on April 17, 2003

It's 6:30 p.m. on a Thursday, and the modest storefront at 3531a N. La Brea Ave. is teeming with people. The shelves that were stocked with bottles of Rokeach grape juice, jars of Tzali's gefilte fish and cans of California chunk light tuna only a half hour ago, are now nearly empty.

Skiing With a Purpose

By Jewish Journal Staff
Published on January 31, 2002

As people shoosh down the California mountains, one group will be getting more than just snow: Torah.