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- ↑ Sherri Day (June 28, 2003). "Forget Rye Bread, You Don't Have to Be Jewish to Eat Kosher". The New York Times.
- ↑ Samuel G. Freedman (May 19, 2007). "Rabbi's Campaign for Kosher Standards Expands to Include Call for Social Justice". The New York Times.
- ↑ "A slave to profit$". The New York Post. March 31, 2013.
covers the kosher food business
- 1 2 Alex Witchel (September 27, 2000). "Kosher: If You Only Could See It Now". The New York Times.
- ↑ Joseph Berger (April 7, 2017). "The Grape Juice Wars of Passover". The New York Times.
- ↑ Matthew Purdy (March 2, 2003). "Our Towns; New York's Kosher Laws, Answering to a Higher Court". The New York Times.
- ↑ "Heathrow Goes Kosher". The Jewish Press. September 24, 2015.
Kosher meat and dairy sandwiches now are available at four Heathrow Airport terminals
- ↑ "Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Left a Kosher Empire". The Jewish Press. October 16, 2013.
- ↑ "Sign of the Times: Cuba May Be Going Kosher". The Jewish Press. March 22, 2016.
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