Word: kosher
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...tell an old joke about an agnostic uncle who was the only member of his family who went to synagogue. When asked why he did so, the uncle would respond, "Ah, but you never know." Einstein's parents, on the other hand, were "entirely irreligious." They did not keep kosher or attend synagogue, and his father Hermann referred to Jewish rituals as "ancient superstitions," according to a relative...
Despite his parents' secularism, or perhaps because of it, Einstein rather suddenly developed a passionate zeal for Judaism. "He was so fervent in his feelings that, on his own, he observed Jewish religious strictures in every detail," his sister recalled. He ate no pork, kept kosher and obeyed the strictures of the Sabbath. He even composed his own hymns, which he sang to himself as he walked home from school...
...Tribes of Israel as they fled Pharaoh’s army. Not only was it great as the earliest power-food for very active multitudes—consider running from the Egyptian army the predecessor to the Amazing Race—the matza has survived as the premier kosher-for-Passover sports nutrition. Some have even called our unleavened loaves Rabbi-Grain Power Bars (some meaning me). Once you see what a great venue two matzas make for a truly energizing sandwich, you’ll find it no surprise that Harvard’s greatest Jewish student athletes scarf...
...It’s certainly getting a lot of attention,” says Hinman. As the party raged on, Jewish rock band Red Heifer made the walls of Beren Hall throb with deafening bass as the Purimpalooza attendees hit the dance floor. The band puts its own kosher spin on rock-and-roll classics, and normally caters to the Jewish party-animal crowd with songs like “I Can’t Get No Hamantashen.” “Purim is joyous,” says Bernard Steinberg, the executive director of Harvard Hillel...
...Bundy butchered him kosher-style—cut his throat, then watched him bleed to death,” Perret writes. It is an entirely inaccurate portrayal of Jewish dietary law and an entirely inappropriate description of a Holocaust refugee...