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  Bigger is always better right? This is a slightly different version of my other Kraut recipe except I made about 9 liters worth. See all those heads of cabbage, well that's what 20.194 lbs (9160 grams ) look like. These heads were somewhat small. They ranged from 2 lbs to 3 lbs. In my last batch, the heads were huge. So as previously mentioned I like being precise and I wanted to add exactly 1.5% of salt. After trimming and shredding it would have been a pain in the ass to weigh so I had an alternate idea. I saved all the scraps and cores and subtracted them from th ..read more

 KOSHER—BIBLICAL VS JEWISH by Avram Yehoshua THE SEED OF ABRAHAM To abstain from all unclean animals (food), is Torah (the first five books of the Bible: Genesis through Deuteronomy). To ‘keep kosher’ the Jewish way, is both Torah and rabbinic. There is a big difference. God requires that we eat only clean meat (Torah: Lev. 11 and Deut. 14), and so do the Rabbis. But the Rabbis go further. Keeping kosher means that one doesn’t eat any dairy products with meat. The Rabbis say that one cannot have cheese with clean meat, or even use a plate for meat, that once had cheese on it. The separati ..read more

 Biblical kosher versus Talmudic kosher Solomon D. Stevens has a Ph.D. from Boston College. His publications include “Religion, Politics, and the Law” (co-authored with Peter Schotten) and “Challenges to Peace in the Middle East.” Solomon D. Stevens | Special to JT An Orthodox friend recently reprimanded me for wearing my kippah to a restaurant, which he deemed to be non-kosher. I always wear my kippah. I want non-Jews to know that there are Jews in the world who are proud about who they are and not afraid to be recognized as Jews. But beyond that, I believe that I keep kosher. I just do ..read more

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