Pub drinks to licence

A Golders Green pub will be celebrating the New Year with a kosher licence.

Earlier this year, the owners of The Castle, on the junction between Cricklewood Lane and Finchley Road, announced plans to rebrand as a Jewish venue.

For New Year's Eve revellers, its restaurant will be under Federation supervision.

The restaurant will serve kosher versions of pub staples, from an English breakfa

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Talking turkey - organically speaking

Britain's first organic kosher turkeys will go on sale next week, after more than 20 years of campaigning for organic certification.

The Soil Association has historically refused to certify kosher meat as organic because of the method of slaughter without stunning. This year, more than 300 people signed an online petition demanding that the guidelines be changed.

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Tempting shoppers' taste buds

Two friends from primary school who have lived on different sides of the world for the majority of their lives are back together for a kosher business venture - a takeaway creperie in Brent Cross which opened this week.

Now both 51, Melissa Levi and Michaela Machat were together at the Woolfson Hillel School until Ms Machat moved to South America with her family when she was 10.

At 21, Mrs L

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Using their loaves to tempt Glasgow kosher shoppers

Kosher provision for the Glasgow community is to be extended with a supervised in-house bakery at a Whole Foods Market branch opening next month in Giffnock.

The bakery will come under the supervision of the West of Scotland Kashrut Commission, whose Rabbi Moshe Rubin was delighted by the co-operation of the natural and organic grocer.

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Full house eats it up

So popular was the first kosher food tasting for non-Jews at the 2011 Manchester Food and Drink Festival that people had to be turned away.

Manchester Jewish Museum hosted Secrets from a Kosher Kitchen, giving 30 guests a flavour of dishes from Russia to the Middle East.

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