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Kashrut supervisor sees gender as a plus

Kashrut supervisor sees gender as a plus

SAN FRANCISCO — Evelyn Prizont does it for the glamor.

“And the respect,” she adds with a smirk.

Prizont, an Orthodox woman in her early 40s, is a mashgicha, a female kosher supervisor in Seattle.

Under contract with the Va’ad HaRabanim of Greater Seattle, she spends her days poking around commercial kitchens, making sure kosher laws are observed and treif is kept at bay.

The mashgiach, or kosher supervisor, is the foot soldier of the kosher food industry.

Thousands of them travel the world to inspect factories, kitchens, tanker trucks, slaughterhouses, bakeries, butchers and supermarkets, overseeing meal preparation for hotels, Jewish schools, synagogues and summer camps.

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Denverite heroes return to Normandy

Denverite heroes return to Normandy

HAROLD “Heshie” Steinberg and Homer Goodman had the rare experience of returning to the shores of Normandy, France, June 6, 2009, to celebrate the 65th anniversary of D-Day.

Both had served in the US Army Air Corps — Steinberg when he was 21, Goodman when he was 18.

Steinberg and Goodman belong to The Greatest Generation organization, which works with veterans and arranged and paid for the entire trip.

As the two octogenarians headed for England, Normandy and Paris, their first stop was the Arlington Cemetery in Washington, DC, where they met with other veterans and exchanged war-time stories. Only three veterans came from Colorado.

The veterans were accompanied by 20 college students from the College of the Ozarks.

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The seven laws of Noah

The seven laws of Noah

CLEVELAND, Tenn. — When Jack Saunders began questioning the core religious claims of Christianity in the mid-1980s, it set him on a journey that eventually led to his embrace of the Torah and Jewish teachings.

Last Updated ( Friday, 26 June 2009 14:48 )

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Can Britain’s ‘Chief’ sell in America?

Can Britain’s ‘Chief’ sell in America?

NEW YORK — Most of what you need to know about Jonathan Sacks, the chief rabbi of the British commonwealth, is apparent from the story he tells of how his latest book, The Home We Build Together, came to be.

It begins in the prime minister’s study at 10 Downing St., where Sacks would go “regularly” to study the Bible with former British leader Tony Blair. During one of their meetings, Blair — whom Sacks describes as a “very religious man” who reads the Bible daily — asked why only 34 verses are needed to describe the creation of the world, but more than 10 times as many are used to account for the building of the mishkan, the tabernacle the Israelites built in the desert after the Exodus.

Caught off guard, Sacks offered an answer he considered insufficient. Only later, when Britain and other Western European democracies found themselves enduring spasms of social tension brought on by the alienation of young Muslim immigrants, did he arrive at a more thorough understanding. The problem Europeans were facing, Sacks says now, is precisely the problem the Jews faced in the desert: how to unite a diverse people into a nation.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 June 2009 01:22 )

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Great-great-great-grandfather

Great-great-great-grandfather

Immediately after Shabbat ended on May 23, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the world’s leading halachic authority, was informed that he has become a great-great-great grandfather.

He has lived to see a sixth-generation descendant.

The birth has been widely discussed in Israel, including the secular news outlets. 

Rabbi Elyashiv’s great-great grandchildren Rabbi Yonoson and Mrs. Devora Honigsberg, announced the birth of their first son.

Rabbi Elyashiv’s great granddaughter, Mrs. Gedalya Honigsberg, became a grandmother for the first time.

Rabbi Elyashiv’s granddaughter Mrs. Shraga Steinman became a great-grandmother for the first time.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 June 2009 01:23 )

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JTA News

Budapest court disbands neo-Nazi Hungarian Guard

3 July 2009, 11:42 am A Budapest appeals court disbanded the Hungarian Guard, the private army of the neo-Nazi Jobbik political party.... [Link]

Rowe seeks parental rights, over Nation of Islam

3 July 2009, 11:36 am Debbie Rowe asked a court to restore her parental rights to the two children she bore Michael Jackson, partly because of the pop icon’s association with the Nation of Islam.... [Link]

Report of sale of Jewish bones likely false

3 July 2009, 11:29 am Reports that bones from a Holocaust mass grave in northern Romania were being sold to medical students appears to be false.... [Link]

Palestinian swine flu cases rising

2 July 2009, 5:18 pm A Palestinian mufti said Muslim law forbids hugging and kissing anyone who may have been exposed to swine flu, as West Bank cases continue to rise.... [Link]

Israeli army, Palestinians trade fire

2 July 2009, 4:55 pm The Israeli military and Palestinian gunmen traded fire on the Gaza border.... [Link]

Clinton, Fayyad meet

2 July 2009, 4:45 pm Hillary Rodham Clinton met with the Palestinian Authority prime minister in an effort to advance peace talks with Israel.... [Link]

Regev: Halting natural growth is ‘prejudging’ final status

2 July 2009, 3:16 pm Stopping natural growth inside settlements would be prejudging final-status talks, said a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.... [Link]

U.S. Helsinki group presses Lithuania on property

2 July 2009, 2:50 pm A U.S. congressional delegation pressed the Lithuanian government to address the issue of restitution for property looted from Nazi and Communist eras.... [Link]

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