For Jews in Dnepropetrovsk and its environs, there is an addition to the already wide variety of foods available to the kosher consumer. “Kosherniy Pogrebok” (Kosher Vault) has begun to produce canned beef with buckwheat (beef hash).

The Reform movement strongly protested the advancement of a civil union bill to the floor of the Israeli parliament.

An obscure group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis has banned smoked salmon because of the presence of a parasitic worm.

Chief soifer of the National sofrut center rabbi Reuven Margolin finished the biggest CIS mezuzah- 40 cm long which is twice the standard size.

Kashrut department of our community led by Elisha Baram produced unique kosher chocolate «Seven Seventy» for the birthday of Chief Rabbi Kaminezki under trademark «Kaminezki 45 Anniversary».

The Agudath Israel Council of Torah Sages has issued a statement suggesting that a New York rabbi should no longer be considered Orthodox because of his decision to ordain a woman.

Kosher consumers in Russia have more choices than ever before thanks to the production of a number of new items under rabbinical supervision.

Last week in Moscow, rabbinical students of the yeshiva at the Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue took their final exams. In all, 22 young men received their Rabbinic ordination as well as certification as shochtim (ritual slaughterers).

Seven hundred copies of the Tanya, the basic book of Chabad Chasidic philosophy, were gifted to the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community.

In supermarkets in Russia’s northern capital S.Peterburg, shoppers can now find kosher dairy products.