Archive | March, 2009

Kosher on Campus: CUNY Brooklyn College

Contributed by Dani Klein & Charlie Shrem Brooklyn College is extremely Jew friendly. School is suspended for basically every Yom Tov (not chol hamoed though). I have never come across a situation where I was placed with a scheduling conflict due to my religious observances. Brooklyn College makes every attempt to accommodate the needs of [...]

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Kosher on Campus: NYU

New York University / NYU, or locally referred to as NY Jew, is 25% Jewish with about 5,000 Jews on campus. Many of the Yidden at NYU are observant, making this campus ideal for those who keep kosher. On the first floor of the Weinstein Residence Hall at 5 University Place off of E 8th [...]

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✈ Keeping Kosher in Acapulco, Mexico

Contributed by: Yosef Haas  |  Last Date of Travel: January 2008 I visited Acapulco for five days in January 2008 with my wife at the suggestion of friends. Having access to a kosher restaurant was important to us, so we were very excited to be staying in a hotel with kosher food on premises. We [...]

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Focus on: CHINA

China is becoming a global power in many industries, and many more kosher observant travelers and businessmen are heading over there each year. Here are a few articles on keeping kosher in China that we felt appropriate to share on YeahThatsKosher.com: Keeping Kosher while Traveling in China WildChina.com | February 11, 2009 Keeping kosher can [...]

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✈ Keeping Kosher in Mystic, CT

Contributed by: Arielle Klein | Last date of Travel: May 2007 In 2007, shortly after my husband and I got married, we had a great idea to take a couples trip. We invited three of our closest couple friends and headed to Mystic / Groton (rhymes with “rotten”) Connecticut. We chose Mystic because of it’s charm and [...]

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