Word: koshering
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Jesus' parents were devout Jews, who probably had a mezuzah (a roll of parchment containing an ancient Hebrew prayer known as the Shema) on the doorpost of their modest home in Nazareth and kept a kosher kitchen. "We may deduce," Aron says, "that Jesus observed the dietary laws." Aron believes that Mary probably put tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary...
...Study War No More, they occasionally try out new ideas and arrangements. The consequences are often unfortunate, as in their version of Get Along, Little Doggies. Modern jazz harmonies and the rock-and-roll technique of moving chromatically up the scale for each new verse just doesn't sound kosher in folksongs. It doesn't sound very good, either...
Messianists." writes Weiner. "They insisted that they were still Jews, though they believed in Jesus as the Messiah, and some of them still wanted to keep Jewish laws like circumcision and the observance of kosher food. The result of such a development, Baker pointed out worriedly, would be the formation of a Jewish church within the church...
...guests of the glittery Americana Hotel in suburban Miami sat down for a lunch of roast beef, string beans sautée with mushrooms, fondant of potatoes, salad, petits-fours and coffee. Neither butter nor cream was on the table; everything is always strictly kosher at the serious, elaborate dinners that open the annual fund-raising campaigns of the nation's most successful charity, the United Jewish Appeal...
...Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. In 1927 the slithiest tove in the Soviet literary propaganda corps aimed this sizzling satirical poker at the Russian Revolution. Ehrenburg recently denounced its publication in the West, an act the non-hero of this kosher Candide would have relished...