✈ Keeping Kosher in Lancaster, PA [Amish Country] & at Franklin & Marshall College

Contributed by Dani Klein | Last Date of Travel: July 2010

Kosher Info: Last summer, another couple joined me and my wife for a few days in Amish Country, PA (specifically staying in the city of Lancaster) over the July 4th holiday weekend. In our research, we found that Kosher food would be available, but not at a restaurant. The only eatery we learned of was on (or right off of) the campus of Franklin & Marshall College, in the Ben Franklin Dining Hall, with a Star-K hechsher (although if you keep reading you’ll see that we were wrong). The dining hall obviously is only open when students are on campus, so even if students were on campus for the summer break, July 4th break was not a good time to find it open. (We also don’t think the kosher section is open over the summer, despite summer sessions). When school is in session, they also offer Shabbat meals. Regardless, I recommend calling ahead 717-291-3993.

Ben Franklin Dining Hall
415 Harrisburg Ave.
Lancaster, PA 17603

Having said that, the large local supermarket chain Weis, carry lots of everyday kosher products… we even found a small section of frozen kosher meat – good for BBQing.

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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 Center for Jewish Living. Because of its integration with Cornell Dining, students need not purchase a separate, more expensive Kosher plan: A meal at 104West! costs one meal swipe, just like every other all-you-can-eat dining hall. 104West!, which serves both dairy and meat meals, is open for lunch and dinner every day, and offers daily soup, salad bar, and deserts, in addition to whatever the hot option is that day. Students also have the option of ordering custom specialties from the grill, which include omelettes, quesadillas, and pad thai. 104West! provides catering services, allowing students to buy Kosher food for outside events—Pizza, deli, and even Shabbat meals!

For freshman who live on North Campus, which is approximately a 12 minute walk from 104West!, there exists a more conveniently located Kosher option. North Star, an all-you-can-eat facility in North Campus’ Appel Commons, features a kosher station supervised by a mashgiach. Besides for such classics as deli sandwiches, hot dogs, and matzoh ball soup, the station also provides fresh hot food, brought from the kosher kitchen at 104West!

When on the go, Cornellians have the option to pick up Kosher, prepackaged deli sandwiches from many restaurants and shops around campus. The Noyes convenience store offer kosher staples such as frozen pizza bagels, lox, deli meats, and more. And for those students adventurous enough to venture into Ithaca, the supermarket Wegmans’ maintains well-stocked kosher meat and dairy sections.

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A YeahThatsKosher Update

Dear Kosher Travelers,

Due to the recent economic situation, many of you are traveling less, some are traveling more, and hopefully, everyone is still traveling kosher. There are a few items we’d like to announce as the late Spring / Summer travel season gets underway.

First, we’d like to shep nachas. YeahThatsKosher founder, Dani Klein, was named the #13 most influential Jewish individual on Twitter. You can follow Dani, and all YeahThatsKosher updates here: @YeahThatsKosher. You can view the rest of the top 100 Jews and Organizations on Twitter here: http://kavod.jta.org/out.php?title=jtarsquos-100-most-influential-jewish-twitterers

Secondly, we’d like to ask for your assistance. In order for our site to constantly provide content, we need the support and insight from our readership. If you’ve been traveling over the past year, consider writing a post for the blog. Keep in mind the mitzvah you’ll be doing by providing others with kosher information.

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