Month: April 2011
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Shechita Labelling
The EU has decided to label meat that was killed without first being pre-stunned. This is a move aimed primarily at distinguishing kosher and halal meat from ‘regular’ non-shechted meat. I’m not sure if people really understand what ‘stunning’ means. It sounds so nice – kind of like an anesthetic before an operation. But in… Read more
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Cookies and i-pods
Do you have a bentscher app on your i-pod? Does it contain ‘cookies’? If so, does anyone know how to kasher it for Pesach? The best advice I’ve found so far was that it cannot be kashered and must be ‘blended’. Of course, if you purchase the Sefiros app that will kasher your i-pod and… Read more
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Nostalgia
I keep saying that nostaligia isn’t what it used to be, but the truth is that cleaning out the house for Pesach allows one to find all sorts of things from the past. One of the things I dug up was a video of a TV programme made by TVNZ about being a Jewish teenager… Read more
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Ami article
There is an article in Ami magazine (a magazine I have been fortunate not to read until now) which describes the issue of outwardly Orthodox people who have lost their faith. There is a scan of the article here: I am actually shocked by the level of hatred and lack of understanding presented in this… Read more