In Monday’s Jerusalem Post, Prof. Ari Zivotofsky authored an article harshly criticizing and diminishing the work of Tzohar’s kashrut supervision in ways that we fear will lead some uninformed readers ...

Earlier this year, a kashrut inspector from the Jerusalem rabbinate turned up at the renowned café and patisserie Kadosh, shouted at the establishment’s staff, and on the spot removed the restaurant’s ...

Market research conducted in preparation for the launch of the Tzohar rabbinical service's alternative kashrut system found that 80% of potential consumers are willing to eat at a restaurant that has ...

A few months ago, signs were plastered across haredi neighborhoods in Jerusalem—including one directly in front of my apartment building—declaring that “Anyone who enlists (in the IDF), will eat treif ...

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — The Conservative movement’s ethical kosher initiative may not have been intended as a wedge into the Orthodox monopoly over kosher supervision. But the planned rollout this ...

Last November, at the Union for Reform Judaism’s biennial in Houston, a group of rabbis and lay leaders gathered for a workshop to discuss how Reform Jews should relate to the theory and laws of ...

Minister of Religious Services Matan Kahana (Yamina), June 14, 2021. Army Radio economics reporter Nitay Anavi on Tuesday morning tweeted a copy of Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana’s ...

Religious Jewish women, the primary cooks in Orthodox families, have long ruled kosher kitchens and served as crucial, informal kosher watchdogs for their families and guests. But those women are ...

But so far, modern Orthodox, or even slightly less observant Jews—both in Israel and beyond—have been leery of taking cannabis, even as medicine. And when it comes to these kinds of decisions, it is ...

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In the course of studying for my rabbbinic exams at Beit Midrash Har’el, I was studying the Pitchei Teshuva, an 1800s-era commentary on the Shulkhan Aruch. After bringing a few different reasons that ...

A private kashrut authority announced Tuesday it is ending its supervision and handing over to a new kosher supervision program announced Monday. In a Facebook post, Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz, founder of ...