Pork

Spain investigates possible lab leak behind African swine fever outbreak

The court-ordered move follows concerns raised this month that the outbreak detected in wild boars could have been caused by a laboratory leak.

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Police and others stand at the entrance during the registration of the IRTA CReSA laboratory amid an investigation of African swine fever in Bellaterra, north of Barcelona, Spain, December 18, 2025.
Wild boars cross a road in a residential area after the government ordered residents to stay home to fight the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Haifa, northern Israel April 16, 2020.

'A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig': A Hebrew, Talmud, rabbinic expert goes ‘whole hog’

At the beginning of the Second Temple period, in the Persian era of the 4th to 5th centuries BCE, pigs did not have a unique status; other animals were viewed as equally non-kosher.

|ByARI ZIVOTOFSKY
MANY KASHRUT agencies have provided certification for items such as non-dairy margarine.

Why the word 'pork' makes something kosher deemed non-kosher

This problem, known in halachic literature as mar’it ayin, can be circumvented if there are clear distinctive markers, or if it becomes readily known that there are fake look-alike versions.

|BySHLOMO M. BRODY
Letters

Letters to the editor October 13, 2021: Ben & Jerry trip on a query

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

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A Christian enclave confronts a proposal to attract Muslim tourists

Lake Toba's local tourist industry has struggled since the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 2002 Bali bombing.

OCTOBER 15, 2019ByDAVID PIERSON/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS
LAKE TOBA’S tourist industry has struggled since the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 2002 Bali bombing.

Kosher pork? Not so fast

There is certainly merit in examining this new technology from a broad, holistic perspective. Yet the leap from there to “kosher pork” seems tenuous and unnecessary.

APRIL 9, 2018ByJOEL KENIGSBERG
Bacon cheeseburger

Far-right French mayor bans 'anti-Republican' pork-free school meals

"Religious imperatives have no place in an educational establishment."

JANUARY 9, 2018ByEYTAN HALON
Students eating lunch at school (illustrative)