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Kosher
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kosher
Etymology: Heb, kasher, fit or proper
pertaining to the preparation and serving of foods according to Jewish dietary laws (e.g., keeping dairy and meat separate in cooking and ingesting). Kosher foods include common fruits, vegetables, and cereals, as well as tea and coffee. Foods that are not kosher include pork, birds of prey, and seafood that lacks fins and scales, such as lobster and eels. Most poultry and meat products, excluding pork, are kosher if properly processed.

Kosher
Ethnic nutrition Referring to foods prepared in accordance with Jewish dietary law
Vox populi Kosher entered mainstream English in the mid-1920s, as a synonym for correct, genuine, or legitimate


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JUST TO REVIEW THE RECENT NEWS: HOWARD DEAN'S WIFE AND KIDS ARE JEWISH, DENNIS KUCINICH KEEPS KOSHER (BECAUSE OF HIS JEWISH GIRLFRIEND), GENERAL WESLEY CLARK COMES FROM A LINE OF RABBIS IN MINSK, HILLARY CLINTON'S GRANDMOTHER MARRIED SOMEONE NAMED MAX ROSENBERG, AND JOHN KERRY, OF ALL PEOPLE, LEARNED THAT BOTH HIS PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS WERE JEWISH (KERRY WAS ORIGINALLY KOHN).
David, a handsome, gym-fit resident of a spectacular, glass-walled wonder in the Hollywood hills, prays every morning, keeps kosher, keeps the Sabbath, and has been banging his head against the wall for 16 years trying to reconcile his tribal faith with the desires of his heart.
 
 
 
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