Kosher Food
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Web-Footed Birds
Are web-footed fowl considered kosher or unkosher? I was certain that I had read in Scripture that they are unclean, but now I cannot find it again. Do I remember incorrectly? Answer: The Torah does not give signs by which…
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Selling Non-Kosher Food
Can a religious Jew sell non kosher meat to other businesses if this is his means of income? Answer: This is a very complex issue, and one that cannot be dealt with effectively divorced from specific details of situation and…
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Buying Fresh Fish From a Non-Kosher Market
In the area we live, there are no purveyors of kosher fresh fish. The one kosher meat market carries no fresh fish at all (only frozen). Local markets carry lots of fresh fish, but law requires that they “dress” even…
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Is Poultry Considered Meat?
Is the reason we don’t mix meat and milk because it is written in the Torah not to cook a mother in her milk? If so, why don’t we eat chicken with milk? Chickens do not produce milk! You are…
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Abraham Serves Milk and Meat
Abraham offers the three angels on their way to Sodom refreshment of milk and a “young calf without blemish”…. how would this have been done without compromising the kosher rules of not consuming meat and dairy at one sitting? First…
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Food Products With Just a ‘K’
Is the K designation a sign of kosher food? Thank you for your question. Although a K might be a sign of a company claim that their product is Kosher, since it is not a registered copyrighted symbol, any company…
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Veal and Inhumane Slaughter
My future mother in law would like to have veal served at our wedding. However, from what I have learned veal is raised in an inhumane fashion, different from other animals. They are raised in small crates unable to move…
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No Slaughter for Fish
Why is a chicken slaughtered, but not a fish? After much thought and research I think that the requirements for slaughter are based on the sacrificial rites. The Tractate of Talmud which deals with the laws of Shechita (ritual slaughter)…