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kosher
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  • "In combination with strict monogamy and other kosher practices, yes," the Librarian says.†   (source)
  • There's just a handful of meat processors: firms that make bacon, sausage, hamburger patties, and kosher products.†   (source)
  • She and Rahel had just worked a full day on the Sabbath; they'd long since given up any concerns about keeping kosher or lighting Sabbath candles.†   (source)
  • "It's not entirely kosher, but it's fast.†   (source)
  • "But kosher," Simon pointed out cheerfully.†   (source)
  • Okay, so maybe lying isn't 100 percent kosher on the Good Deeds Scale (especially lying to your best friends), but it's for a very, very good cause.†   (source)
  • It hadn't been bad at all, and good kosher corned beef was something he'd been unable to find in London.†   (source)
  • A kosher bakery that you couldn't find it if I gave you a road map, a guidebook and whatever he's called that speaks five languages.†   (source)
  • Not so hard if she was an officer, but not really kosher for someone in training.†   (source)
  • She said all I had to do was sit naked on a metal stool in the middle of the room and then, if I felt like it, which she was hoping I would, dip my body into a vat of kosher cow's blood and roll on the large white sheets of paper provided.†   (source)
  • Her spa cuisine was kosher.†   (source)
  • Your father said to tell you this is a kosher hospital, and you are to eat everything.†   (source)
  • Bublanski belonged to the Söder congregation and ate vegetarian food if kosher fare was unavailable.†   (source)
  • Something wasn't kosher about the story of Nationwide Flight 353.†   (source)
  • "You know what I like about New York?" the Gasman said, noisily chewing his kosher hot dog.†   (source)
  • "I'm afraid we don't have any kosher food on board."†   (source)
  • All drawn up in most kosher fashion, Manfred.†   (source)
  • During an earlier stroll through the neighborhood there had been a kosher restaurant, Herzl's, on Church Avenue which had caught my eye.†   (source)
  • ...and ate pastrami sandwiches and kosher dill pickles, followed by raspberry ice cream.   (source)
  • It is a kosher deli with great corned beef on rye.
  • It was treyf, not kosher for a Jew to eat.†   (source)
  • And Yetta—with Mr. Cohen, we'll keep kosher.†   (source)
  • He worked as an assistant in a kosher grocery store on Main Road, looking after the deliveries.†   (source)
  • Tateh would take us there to slaughter the cows in the kosher faith….†   (source)
  • They were strictly Orthodox and ate kosher every day.†   (source)
  • "It feels good to be kosher again," I told him, not without some bitterness in my voice.†   (source)
  • "I can get a kosher meal, and I don't have to listen to a lecture about the evils of Israel."†   (source)
  • Not enough zip, but that's the kosher bit for you.†   (source)
  • Bent kosher women, faces covered, wore hair shirts and loudly sobbed.†   (source)
  • In, of all things, canning kosher soups.†   (source)
  • There was a bright and cheerful school cafeteria with balanced meals, ethnic choices — perogies, felafels — and a kosher option, and soy products for the vegetarians.†   (source)
  • Grisha could back me up on a lot of it without incriminating himself: we'd never discussed it, he'd never questioned me but he'd known it wasn't kosher, all those hush-hush trips out to the storage unit.†   (source)
  • He, who had always eaten kosher, he, the oldest son of an oldest son of a respected family, in fact, he Meyer Mossel Eusebius Smit, was seriously being asked to eat pork.†   (source)
  • So—so he was not kosher.†   (source)
  • But since so many Jews were seeking safety abroad, it was becoming ever more difficult to find kosher groceries.†   (source)
  • "Alma says she can handle the threats," Max continued, "but most of the shopkeepers throw her out, and the kosher store owners have emigrated."†   (source)
  • He knew there was no hope of getting kosher food, a fact that had deterred some more observant Jews from enlisting.†   (source)
  • She cooked matzoh balls, kneydlach, gefilte fish, kugl, chopped liver, and more kosher dishes than I can remember.†   (source)
  • You don't know anything about kosher.†   (source)
  • The kitchen in Lotte's apartment was kosher, and Paul and Clara secretly continued to cook kosher food.†   (source)
  • He'd also kill cows in the kosher faith for the jews in town to eat, and we often kept a cow in the yard behind the store.†   (source)
  • Instead of eating kosher, using different table settings for every meal and eating all meat or all dairy dishes, I just ate what I wanted.†   (source)
  • I had never learned to cook as a girt, I worked in the store all day while Marneh cooked kosher, or Tateh would hire a black lady to come in twice a week to help Mameh cook.†   (source)
  • His idea of a family outing was to take me and my sister to a chicken farm in Portsmouth, Virginia, where he'd slaughter chickens according to kosher law so he could sell them to Jewish customers.†   (source)
  • Even her tablecloths, which she changed three times a day-when you eat kosher you change the tablecloths for every meal— were ironed and always immaculate.†   (source)
  • Kosher My parents' marriage was put together by a rov, a rabbi of a high order who goes to each of the parents and sees about the dowry and arranges the marriage contract properly according to Jewish law, which meant love had nothing to do with it.†   (source)
  • She ate kosher hummus, tahini, and baba ghanouj, and explained the importance of kosher food to my niece Maya; she laughed and joked with a group of Jewish ladies who sat next to us, and even got up to watch me help other men place David Preston in a chair, lift him up, and carry him around the room in the traditional Jewish men's wedding dance.†   (source)
  • The three typed sentences would not prove that Dr. Tucker had survived Flight 353 or that something about the crash was not kosher.†   (source)
  • Then Hannah came upon a kosher pizzeria and several falafel stands with signs written in Hebrew, and the true character of the street was revealed.†   (source)
  • When I came home from school early Friday afternoon, Manya asked me if I was hungry, and I said yes, I could eat a horse, a kosher horse, of course, and she quickly put a lunch on the table.†   (source)
  • Later, as the Feds cracked down, they went over to stamps that were almost kosher-looking, but not quite.†   (source)
  • To fill the gap we bought beautiful long kosher frankfurters with sauerkraut and Coca-Colas at a little stand and took them with us to the subway.†   (source)
  • At noontime I no longer browsed in the Post, but walked over to the newspaper stand near Times Square and bought a copy of the Daily Worker, which without ostentation—indeed, with grave casualness—I read, or tried to read, at my desk in my habitual way as I chewed at a kosher pickle and a pastrami sandwich, relishing each instant I was able to play, in this fortress of white Anglo-Saxon power, the dual role of imaginary Communist and fictive Jew.†   (source)
  • Even kosher meat when you see, you don't want to eat— "Enough!†   (source)
  • If you're selling coldstorage for fresh-But it's kosher, she had said.†   (source)
  • And whether David's mother kept a kosher house-at which she smiled-and whether David's father still had time to don phylacteries in the morning and what synagogue he attended-at which his father snorted, amused.†   (source)
  • Of course it's kosher, he had answered.†   (source)
  • And how far is the step from cold storage meat to meat not kosher and how far is the step from meat not kosher to pig's flesh?†   (source)
  • Good kosher food they gave you.†   (source)
  • Only eat kosher meat, that's how.†   (source)
  • Liver is kosher till it rots.†   (source)
  • It's kosher, she said.†   (source)
  • The visitors were taken there and shown them, all neatly hung in rows, labeled conspicuously with the tags of the government inspectors—and some, which had been killed by a special process, marked with the sign of the kosher rabbi, certifying that it was fit for sale to the orthodox.†   (source)
  • /Spiel/, /kosher/, /ganof/ and /matzoh/ are examples; their vowels remain un-American.†   (source)
  • Kosher.†   (source)
  • /I should worry/,[46] in its way, is correct English, but in essence it is as completely Yiddish as /kosher/, /ganof/, /schadchen/, /oi-yoi/, /matzoh/ or /mazuma/.†   (source)
  • BLOOM: (Offhandedly) Kosher.†   (source)
  • BLOOM: (Uncloaks impressively, revealing obesity, unrolls a paper and reads solemnly) Aleph Beth Ghimel Daleth Hagadah Tephilim Kosher Yom Kippur Hanukah Roschaschana Beni Brith Bar Mitzvah Mazzoth Askenazim Meshuggah Talith.†   (source)
  • Kosher.†   (source)
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