All 14 Uses of
kosher
in
The Color of Water
- 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.†
Chpt 3
- They were strictly Orthodox and ate kosher every day.†
Chpt 3
- You don't know anything about kosher.†
Chpt 3
- She cooked matzoh balls, kneydlach, gefilte fish, kugl, chopped liver, and more kosher dishes than I can remember.†
Chpt 5
- 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.†
Chpt 9
- It was treyf, not kosher for a Jew to eat.†
Chpt 9
- 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.†
Chpt 11
- My Uncle Hal owned a kosher delicatessen in Brooklyn.
Chpt 13 *kosher = conforming to Jewish dietary law
- 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.†
Chpt 13
- Tateh would take us there to slaughter the cows in the kosher faith….†
Chpt 22
- 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.†
Chpt 23
- 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.†
Chpt 23
- 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.†
Chpt Epil.
- 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.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(kosher) conforming to Jewish dietary law
or:
anything that is proper or legitimate (usually used in the negative; as in: Things at the company don't seem kosher.)