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Slaughterers and examiners of the meat must be God-fearing individuals who will examine the knife very thoroughly. In any event, trusted men should be appointed to examine the slaughtering knife…
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The Council of the Four Lands
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1607
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Menasce was asked about the taref (non-kosher) meat. And he said that Sabato di Perugia had told Salomone di Capena that the meat the latter had was taref. In fact…
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Anonymous
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Rome, Papal States
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1539
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There’s an old joke that’s told about a Martian who accidentally crashes his spaceship on the streets of New York. In search of a new set of tires for his craft, he happens to pass a bagel shop…
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Matthew Goodman
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New York, United States of America
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2005
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You shall not tolerate a sorceress.
Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death.
Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone shall be proscribed.
You shall not wrong…
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Get a calf’s head, with the skin on, but cleaned from the hair. Half boil it; take all the meat off in square pieces; break the bones of the head, and boil them in some good veal and…
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Esther Levy
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Philadelphia, United States of America
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1871
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Setting up a kosher home is not at all difficult once one gets the hang of what one is and is not allowed to do and eat. There is sometimes an unfortunate tendency among those just beginning to keep…
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The Jewish Catalog
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1973
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This is a short compendium of the sheḥitot [rules for kosher slaughter] taken from Rabbenu Moshe [Maimonides] and Rabbenu Ya‘akob [Jacob ben Asher], without any errors about what is required, and with…
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Anonymous
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1510
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California Kosher reflects a merging of cuisines from everywhere in the world that Jews have lived, combined with the dazzling variety of fresh foods available in California—while still observing the…
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Pearl Roseman and Eve Marcus, Eve Marcus, Women’s League of Congregation Adat Ari El
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North Hollywood, United States of America
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1996
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Mildred Lubritz Covert was born in uptown New Orleans in 1927 and ate a rich mix of eastern European, creole, and African American foods throughout her childhood. She later chronicled this cuisine in…
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Marcie Cohen Ferris
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Chapel Hill, United States of America
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2005
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Elhanan Wasserman
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1936