Kosher Food

Yes! So long as you buy it from a kosher butcher, you can have Kosher Turkey.

While some Jews observe special dietary laws (called "keeping Kosher"), they still eat many of the same foods as everyone else. Religious or Orthodox Jews will not eat bacon, ham or pork, for example, so their dinner would not have any such items on the menu. The majority of Jews would eat chicken or meat or fish for dinner; some Jews are vegetarian, but the majority eat meat. A typical meal, whether cooked according to the Kosher laws or not, would contain a main course and vegetables and then dessert. (Orthodox Jews do not serve meat products and dairy products at the same meal, so the dessert would have non-dairy ingredients.) Since I am Jewish, I can tell you that tonight we had roast chicken, broccoli, and a fruit salad. We had sugar cookies for dessert. If you want to see what some other Jewish people eat, I enclose a link to a site run by a woman who teaches about gourmet Kosher cooking.

Swordfish is not Kosher. For a Fish to be Kosher it needs fins as well as scales that can be removed without ripping th skin. Swordfish do not qualify.

No, they are not

Yes, wildebeest (aka gnu) are kosher, if they are slaughtered properly, deveined, have the sciatic nerve removed, and salted to remove the blood.

Lamb is an animal that is considered fit for eating according to the laws of kashrut. The animal would still have to be slaughtered and prepared correctly for the meat to be considered kosher.

Matza or matzoh is unleavened bread traditionally eaten during the 8-day festival of Passover. Unleavened, means it wasn't allowed to ferment or rise the way loaves of bread normally would. This is because the Jews were given the opportunity to flee from slavery and didn't want to lose any time waiting for the dough to rise (Exodus ch.12).

Yes. It should be labeled as having had rabbinic supervision for passover use.

Note that Kosher for Passover certification is distinct from the Kosher certification that non-Passover wines may have.

Gefilte (geh-fill-teh) Fish. The pronunciation could be different depending on the geographical region that you are in but this is how the Wordbook Dictionary describes it as being commonly said.

Fish is not dairy. Within the laws of kashrut (kosher dietary laws), there are three categories of food: meat, dairy, pareve. Pareve foods are those that are neither meat nor dairy nor contain derivatives of either. Fish is pareve.

-In general usage, fish is seafood. Dairy refers to milk products, including butter, cheese, ice cream and yogurt.

Sephardi Jews use peanuts and peanut oil on Passover, provided that it isn't otherwise non-kosher. Ashkenazim (Jews of European descent) may theoretically do so, but since some of them have the custom not to, it is rare to find peanut oil with kosher for Passover certification.

The ritual foods at a Passover seder are Matzah (unleavened bread), Maror (bitter herbs), Karpas (a green vegetable, usually parsley), Beitzah (a roasted, hard boiled egg), Haroset (a mixture of apples, nuts, cinnamon, wine) and Z'roa (a shank bone, usually represented by a turkey neck or a beet). Four cups of wine are traditional as well.

The main course can be almost anything, as long as it complies with Passover dietary laws.

You will be offerered whatever the Wedding host(s) serve. It could be anything, just like a non-Jewish wedding.

As a general rule No. Although there are a handful of franchises in the world (mostly in Israel) that are fully kosher.

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Leviticus 3:8 says not to eat pigs because they don't chew the cud. Burger King serves bacon and sausage.

Deuteronomy 14:21 says not to mix meat and milk products--and Burger King's menu is about half cheeseburgers.

Utensils used to prepare non-Kosher foods can't be used for Kosher ones. And IIRC Kosher foods have to be prepared by Jews.

But the bacon and cheeseburgers alone are enough to make BK unkosher.

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Kosher food doesn't have to be prepared by Jews. You'd have to go to Israel to have kosher Burger King though. Costa Rica has one Kosher Burger King also. See related links (that's my rabbi in the story)

Jews consider dairy products kosher as long as they are not from forbidden animals or nothing is added to the product to render it non-kosher, such as rennet in cheese. Additionally, some Jews will only use products labeled 'chalav Yisroel', these are dairy items that have Jews directly involved in their production.

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You would just put matzah in a food processor and blend it until it's the consistency of breadcrumbs. It's far easier to just buy it.

Jews can eat whatever they wish. Can and may have different meanings, you'll learn that next year in school. Jews, like many religious people follow dietary restrictions. regardless they are still able to chew & swallow the food in question, should they so choose. Don't quit school yet!

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The rules of kashrut forbid the consumption of blood.

Yes. You know, you could have just asked Google the same question and you would have gotten your answer.

Yes. Poultry can be cooked in many ways that are indistinguishable from beef or other kosher meats, therefore to prevent someone from thinking that they are eating chicken with dairy, when actually having beef and dairy chicken is treated as meat.

First, for the purposes of this question, I am narrowing the analysis to Jews who keep kosher, e.g. follow the dietary laws, and also ignoring any personal allergies.

Barbecues are limited to those that fit within the kosher rules: (1) The two main rules that operate where barbecues are concerned are: the meat (if present) must be from a kosher animal prepared according to kosher requirements - such as chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, but not pork, rabbit, or horse; and (2) the grill and its resulting dishes cannot have both meat and dairy. Also, as an aside the barbecued food must be prepared koshered utensils (utensils that have been properly washed and/or have never had contacted with dairy).

There is no specific rules, as the companies may become non-kosher in a matter of minutes. If the mashgiach, kosher supervisor, sees a violation of the kashrus, the approval given by that agency (or Rabbi for that matter) is immediately revoked. Check for a reliable kosher symbol, and you should be in good shape!