Archive | February, 2010

✈ Cancun, Mexico

Contributed by Elina Rokhkind  |  Last Date of Travel: February 2010 Kosher Info: Your choice of eating kosher in Cancun (unless you are staying in one of the kosher resorts over Passover) is either ordering catered meals from Chabad or bringing your own food (though no beef or fresh produce allowed into Mexico), which you [...]

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✈ Birmingham, AL

Contributed by: Daniel Wenger | Last Date of Travel: Several visits in early 2010 Kosher Info: Not much going on here, I’m afraid. Birmingham’s shining star is the Publix supermarket on Overton Road which, in addition to having a larger-than-usual Kosher section in the regular shopping aisles, has a refrigerator case of fresh meat, chicken, [...]

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Kosher on Campus: Cornell University

Students at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, whose undergraduate population of 13,000 is 20 percent Jewish, are lucky to have plenty of Kosher options right on campus. The main kosher dining hall, 104West!, is run by Cornell Dining and supervised by the Orthodox Union. It is located on Cornell’s west campus, adjacent to the Cornell [...]

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Keeping Kosher at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver

Enjoying the Vancouver Olympic Games but can’t find what to eat? Thankfully, there is some kosher food in Vancouver to keep you satiated and perhaps titillate your taste buds. There are at least 5 kosher eateries in the Vancouver area (although none are downtown): Sabra Glatt Kosher Restaurant & Bakery (3844 Oak Street) [Meat] Pini’s [...]

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✈ Keeping Kosher in Vancouver, BC

Contributed by: Dani Klein | Last Date of Travel: August 2009 Kosher Info: Vancouver was a city I did not expect to find many kosher options, and was surprised to have a found a few. One thing to keep in mind: most, if not all of the places I will list, close early – especially [...]

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✈ Keeping Kosher in Barcelona, Spain

Contributed by: Esther Zar | Last Date of Travel: September 2009 Kosher Info: We flew into Barcelona with a list of three potential options for kosher food. Well as we eliminated them (one didn’t answer, and the other seemed questionable in kashrut), we were left with one last option: Isamar Kosher (Address: Carrer de l’Avenir, [...]

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