Cheese is the food of choice during Shavuot making it one of our favorite holidays. But, for those who keep strictly kosher, the cheese pickings have always been slim — mostly mild cheddars, mediocre ...

From camembert to cotija to chèvre, fancy artisanal cheeses are universally acclaimed and adored — and are becoming increasingly available for kosher-keeping consumers. Outside the United States, ...

At a cheese plant in Compton, Rabbi Avraham Vogel, a mashgiach (kosher supervisor) from OK supervision, adds a bucket of culture to a 780-gallon bath of hot milk. A table nearby is spread with cheese ...

Kosher cheese must be manufactured under rabbinical supervision and cannot contain rennet, a binding enzyme, from calves that had not been slaughtered in accordance with Jewish law. Sadiklar, 39, is ...

Approximately 2,200 years ago, Yehudis – the Chanukah heroine – used cheese and wine to induce the Greek general Holofernes to fall asleep in his tent, after which she chopped off his head and saved ...

It’s early morning in the Sardinian countryside and a farmer is milking his sheep while a religious kosher supervisor (mashgiach kashrut) looks on. The supervisor is sleeping in the farmer’s barn, and ...

A Canadian food company was ordered to pay more than $19,000 for selling cheese falsely labeled kosher to Jewish youth campers, authorities said Monday. Creation Foods Company in Woodbridge, Ontario ...

The brand of cheese delivered to the camps is available in both non-kosher and kosher versions. Creation Foods allegedly photoshopped the code number of the boxes on the kosher certificate to make it ...

The packages of cheddar cheese were falsely labeled, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has charged. (JTA) — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has charged a food distributor with sending cheddar ...

While traveling in Italy recently, I visited a cheese factory outside Verona called Caseificio San Girolamo. I hesitate to call it a factory because it was an artisanal family-owned operation. The ...

Cheesesteaks at their core are anything but kosher. A kosher cheesesteak is an oxymoron of the highest order. The mixing of meat and cheese is possibly the quintessential no-no when keeping kashrut.