Pork

Why the word 'pork' makes something kosher deemed non-kosher

This problem, known in halachic literature as mar’it ayin, can be circumvented if there are clear distinctive markers, or if it becomes readily known that there are fake look-alike versions.

 MANY KASHRUT agencies have provided certification for items such as non-dairy margarine.
Letters

Letters to the editor October 13, 2021: Ben & Jerry trip on a query

The Reubecca is a pork-heavy take on a Reuben sandwich.

Impossible Pork shouldn't be kosher - opinion

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Impossible Pork is here — but plant-based meat won’t be certified kosher


Cultured pork next order of business for MeaTech

Israeli food-tech company MeaTech announced that it will dedicate R&D assets to expand its offering to include mass production of cultivated pork, the most consumed meat across worldwide.

Brown pig

Medieval Islamic Sicily ate pork, study finds

Despite pork being forbidden in Islamic dietary law, a study found evidence that it was consumed in the rural areas of Sicily while the island was under Muslim rule in the Middle Ages.

Brown pig

Jewish student forced to eat pork after missing football training session

If the student refused, he would have been kicked off the team, and the entirety of the squad would have been forced to run extra exercise drills for his defiant behavior.

A football is seen with the NFL logo.

AstraZeneca says COVID vaccine pork-free, counters Indonesian Muslims

A vial and sryinge are seen in front of a displayed AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken January 11, 2021

No evidence COVID vaccine contains pork, causes infertility - report

An open letter signed by more than 70 medical doctors sought to quash conspiracy theories circulating that the vaccine contains products that are non-kosher.

An illustrative photo of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

Los Angeles pop-up The Bad Jew serves nonkosher takes on Jewish deli food

The Bad Jew has been selling homemade pork-based deli sandwiches, and people – including Jews – are gobbling it up.

The Reubecca is a pork-heavy take on a Reuben sandwich.

Italy seized and destroyed 9.5 tonnes of Chinese pork to stop disease

The illegally-imported pig meat was hidden under a shipment of vegetables from China in a storage facility near Padoa managed by a Chinese citizen.

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Definitely not kosher: Haifa overrun by wild boars

It all started when the northern Israeli municipality halted efforts to keep down the pigs’ population.

A wild boar roams in the snow near Kibbutz Merom Golan in the Golan Heights, near Israel's border with Syria

A Christian enclave confronts a proposal to attract Muslim tourists

Lake Toba's local tourist industry has struggled since the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 2002 Bali bombing.

LAKE TOBA’S tourist industry has struggled since the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 2002 Bali bombing.

Kosher pork? Not so fast

There is certainly merit in examining this new technology from a broad, holistic perspective. Yet the leap from there to “kosher pork” seems tenuous and unnecessary.

Bacon cheeseburger

Far-right French mayor bans 'anti-Republican' pork-free school meals

"Religious imperatives have no place in an educational establishment."

Students eating lunch at school (illustrative)