In Parshat Shemini, the Torah delineates the types of animals, birds, fish, and grasshoppers that are kosher. Animals must have split hooves and chew their cud, and fish must have fins and scales.

According to halacha, or traditional Jewish law, milk is only kosher if it comes from a kosher animal. One way to ensure that is the case is to consume only milk produced in a facility where Jews ...

Orthodox Union, most recognizable rabbinical certifier in the country, says phones won't stop ringing since a halt to certain inspections called the status of dairy into question ...

In this week’s parsha we read about the kosher and non-kosher animals. Everyone knows which animals are permissible to offer as sacrifices in the Beit HaMikdash – cattle, sheep, goats ...

The Talmud, Bechorot 6b asks how we know that milk from a kosher animal is kosher. Israel is “Eretz zavat chalav u’devash”, “A Land flowing with milk and honey.” If milk was not ...

According to halacha, or traditional Jewish law, milk is only kosher if it comes from a kosher animal. One way to ensure that is the case is to consume only milk produced in a facility where Jews ...