“Other Canadians are guaranteed access to local Canadian meat,” Richard Rabkin, managing director of the Kashruth Council of Canada, told the Toronto Star. “Why should Jewish Canadians be treated any ...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The billboards went up this week as part of a campaign launched by the Jewish Initiative for Animals against factory farming. LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Drivers in the Los Angeles region ...

Agriprocessors, the nation's largest kosher meat supplier, is slowly recovering from a federal raid at its Postville, Iowa, plant in May. And while the company has made negative headlines in the past ...

(JTA) — The Orthodox Union has granted kosher certification to a type of lab-grown meat, a decision that could signal an expansion of the options available under Judaism’s intricate dietary laws. The ...

BERKELEY, Calif. — Rabbi Gavriel Price has thousands of years of Jewish religious law to draw on when he is on the job, determining whether a new food item can get a kosher certification from his ...

Chemicals used in food and food processing must meet strict regulatory criteria. For a chemical to receive an official kosher certification, the manufacturer has a rabbi come to the facility to ...