food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law
<noun.food> [ adj ]
conforming to dietary laws
<adj.all> kosher meat a kosher kitchen
proper or legitimate
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Kosher \Ko"sher\, n. Kosher food; also, a kosher shop. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. the practise of adherence to the Jewish ritual law; used mostly in the phrase
{keep kosher}, v. i.. [PJC]
{keep kosher} To adhere to the rules for eating only kosher food and handling it properly. [PJC]
Kosher \Ko"sher\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Koshered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Koshering}.] To prepare in conformity with the requirements of the Jewish law, as meat. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Kosher \Ko"sher\, a. [heb. kosh["e]r fit, proper.] 1. Ceremonially clean, according to Jewish law; -- applied to food, esp. to meat of animals slaughtered according to the requirements of Jewish law. Opposed to {tref}. For food to be officially kosher, it must be certified fit to eat by a Rabbi, according to Jewish ritual law; as, kosher food. Hence, designating a shop, store, house, etc., where such food is sold or used; as, a kosher restaurant.
2. Proper; seemly; appropriate; legitimate; as, it's not kosher to do it that way. [colloq.] [PJC]
3. Genuine. [colloq.] [PJC]
Manhattan's Park Avenue synagogue for the second successive year airlifed Passover supplies to Soviet Jewish congregations in Moscow and Odessa _ two tons of matzoth, wine, gefilte fish and other kosher foods for Passover.
For centuries, Jewish mothers have slaved to prepare the Passover feast, only to have the flavor of the food washed away by syrupy kosher wine.
In June 1986, workers at the company's Queens kosher meat-processing plant went on strike, and Mr. Pines says the company temporarily lost 40% of its meat business.
The merchant, George Barghout, still was touting his dogs as kosher on Tuesday despite a conviction last week for violating a city ordinance that bars merchants from claiming their products are kosher when they're not.
The merchant, George Barghout, still was touting his dogs as kosher on Tuesday despite a conviction last week for violating a city ordinance that bars merchants from claiming their products are kosher when they're not.
"Not of kosher type," say the wrappers on many of the products that come out of Mizraa's meat-processing plant.
The Kosher Dining Club was the brainchild of Henry Zetlin, who runs the kosher catering service at the hotel.
Cohen estimates the kosher-keeping population at between 500,000 and 1.8 million, depending on one's definition of kosher.
Surprise, surprise: the hero, PC Mullens (Bill Paterson) writes it off in the next scene. The story starts when the corpse of a kosher butcher is pulled from a canal in his Volvo, a swastika daubed on the bonnet.
About 55 students demonstrated Sunday against the menu items that go against kosher dietary laws.
Mr. Spielberg's mother, who runs a kosher restaurant in Hollywood, has long known her son's deep desire to be "acceptable."
"If you come from abroad looking for a kosher hotel in Jerusalem, you'd expect a little Yiddishkite (Jewishness), not a yeshiva, but certainly not belly-dancing either," Bahat said.
Some have had to reformulate recipes, switch to kosher ingredients and buy new kitchen equipment.
But in the past year, privately held National Foods has endured a costly strike and a dispute with New York state over an incident of alleged noncompliance with kosher law, and it has squabbled publicly with competitors over its low-fat claims.
Sharabi allowed that he might lose his kosher crusade, but he added that he intends to give it a good try.
But salami? A delicatessen owner is offering a free, 1-pound kosher salami worth $7 to anyone who can produce a ticket stub from a Mets game won by pitcher Frank Viola.
Three of 10 synagogues on South Beach have closed in recent years, and kosher butchers and Jewish bookstores have moved north.
Thompson Medical's Slim-Fast diet aids also go kosher. Most of the $1.7 billion of foods CPC International distributes are certified kosher.
Thompson Medical's Slim-Fast diet aids also go kosher. Most of the $1.7 billion of foods CPC International distributes are certified kosher.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE JEWISH to buy kosher, food firms discover.