KFC to become kosher throughout Israel?

 

This development may lead to kosher KFC’s in other places also, like the US. Its also nice to see the other story – that Israeli companies are starting to take kosher more seriously…

 

 

KFC Israel going kosher

International fast food chain taking steps to turn its branches in Israel kosher, including replacing milk-powder chicken coating with kosher soy-powder coating, said to be identical in taste

Meirav Crystal

Published:

03.09.09, 14:01 / Israel Money

Going kosher pays, as international fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken has learned, and is now taking steps towards receiving full kashrut in its Israeli branches.

 

Thanks to a special approval granted by the global chain, KFC Israel announced on Sunday that it would start marketing its chicken meals with a kosher soy-powder coating rather than the standard milk-power coating.

Shabbat Bread

Lehem Erez wants to go kosher / Navit Zomer   In attempt to increase sales targeting hotels and party halls, popular bakery chain closes factory on Shabbat in effort to receive kosher certificate Full Story

 

The approval was granted after two years of negotiations and deliberations, since the milk-powder element has been an inseparable part of KFC's world-famous coating for over half a century, and is what gives it its one-of-a-kind taste and coloring.

 

The kosher powder that will replace the milk ingredient is a milk-flavored soy powder that was approved by Kentucky Fried Chicken's labs in Dallas, Texas.

 

Thanks to this development, the chain will be able to open kosher branches in other places around the world where large Jewish populations are concentrated.

 

According to KFC Israel, the new taste is identical to the original, and the move to develop the new ingredient stemmed from many customers' requests to avoid mixing meat and dairy.

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Kentucky Fried Chicken has 10 branches in Israel, two of them being strictly kosher, while the rest operate on Shabbat.

 

According to the company's plans, three more branches are expected to be opened throughout 2009.

 

Lehem Erez wants to go kosher In attempt to increase sales targeting hotels and party halls, popular bakery chain closes factory on Shabbat in effort to receive kosher certificate Navit Zomer Published:  02.26.09, 07:15 / Israel Money The Lehem Erez bakery and café chain is looking to go kosher, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported on Wednesday.   According to the report, the chain's owner Giora Naftali has been working vigorously towards received a kosher certificate for its baked goods.   The report said the chain will no longer operate its bread and cakes factory in Poleg, Netanya on Shabbat. Some of the chain's branches already close on Shabbat, including shops in Kfar Saba, Jerusalem, and Tivon.   The decision to make the chain kosher is part of the management's recovery process. Once Lehem Erez's products are certified, they can be marketed to institutions such as kosher hotels and party halls, that cannot use non-kosher products.   A kosher certificate was never part of Lehem Erez founder Erez Komrovsky's vision for the chain. After selling his remaining shares in the company to Naftali, Komrovsky is now an advisor to the chain.   Lehem Erez CEO Ofer Shoval confirmed the report and added that making the chain kosher was a necessary move in order to break into markets beyond the branches' sales.   According to Shoval there are no non-kosher ingredients in any of the company's products anyway. However, Shoval denied rumors that the chain would completely cease to work on Saturdays.   There are currently 22 Lehem Erez branches operating throughout Israel, with two more branches expected to open in the near future. So far, the chain has been generating losses for its investors. Advertisement         In an exclusive interview to Yedioth Ahronoth, Shoval revealed the chain's financial data and debts. "In 2007, the chain's turnover was NIS 43 million ($10.2 million), with an operational loss of NIS 2 million ($477,000). Debts to banks were NIS 9.5 million ($2.2 million).   ”In 2008, the forecast is for a yearly turnover of NIS 45 million ($10.7 million), operational balance or a NIS 1 million ($238,000) profit, and minimizing debts to bans to NIS 8 million ($1.9 million)"     talkback        Print        Send to friend         Bookmark to del.icio.us   See More Exports to US down 34% in Q1 Gaza merchants urge Israel to release goods           20 Talkbacks for this article    See all talkbacks         1.  Smart move, even if motivated by money.  (End) Bunnie Meyer ,  Los Angeles, CA USA   (02.26.09)       2.  As they all do in the end O.K.   (02.26.09)       3.  #1 bunnie in LA Some even make aliah  (End) avi ,  Ramat Gan   (02.26.09)       4.  Kosher a sign of the economic times!     (02.26.09)       5.  to no 4 fish israel   (02.26.09)       6.  Anyone with a brain in his head knows Al   (02.26.09)       7.  Seculars work so hard at not seeing no-brainers adam eliyahu   (02.26.09)       8.  Good Move Yossi ,  Ra'anana   (02.26.09)       9.  Better late than never  (End) Dani   (02.26.09)       10.  simple business decision Ilan ,  Ariel   (02.27.09)       11.  Shabbat and Kosher Efraim ,  Tel Aviv   (02.27.09)       12.  Most shomer shabbat people would NOT kosher=shabbat too   (02.27.09)       13.  Good news Sarah ,  TA   (02.27.09)       14.  I haven't ever bought there yet Tessa ,  TA   (02.27.09)       15.  #3: Yes, some make Aliyah. They're called friars.  (End) Jared ,  New York, USA   (02.27.09)       16.  #15 Jared friars Yaron ,  Sacto US   (02.27.09)       17.  #16 Yaron Jared ,  New York, USA   (02.28.09)       18.  Whoa! hold it right there.... SS ,  CANADA   (03.01.09)       19.  Chazak U'Baruch Alan Ira Silver ,  Philadelphia Israel   (03.09.09)       20.  Here's Why Secular Israelis Oppose Making it Kosher JS ,  Israel   (03.11.09)

 

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ben franklin on dating - prefer old Women to young ones?!

http://www.bibliomania.com/2/9/77/124/21473/1/frameset.html

 

Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress (1745)

June 25, 1745

My dear Friend,

I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural Inclinations you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you are most likely to find solid Happiness. Your Reasons against entring into it at present, appear to me not well-founded. The circumstantial Advantages you have in View by postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with that of the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that make the compleat human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissars. If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Œconomy, will be a Fortune sufficient.

But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:

1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.
2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.
3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.
4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.
5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.
6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.
7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.

8[thly and Lastly] They are so grateful!!

Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.

 

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Swine flu name offensive to Jews and Moslems?

you can't make this stuff up...

Israeli official: Swine flu name offensive

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed "Mexican" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.

Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and "we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu," he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.

Both Judaism and Islam consider pigs unclean and forbid the eating of pork products.

Scientists are unsure where the new swine flu virus originally emerged, though it was identifed first in the United States. They say there is nothing about the virus that makes it "Mexican" and worry such a label would be stigmatizing.

Two Israelis who recently visited Mexico have been hospitalized with symptoms of the flu. Health authorities have not yet confirmed whether they actually have the virus.

The current strain of swine flu is thought to have originated in Mexico where more than 100 people have been killed by the disease so far.

Laboratories in the U.S. and Canada have confirmed that of the samples tested so far, the swine flu virus in Mexico and U.S. appear to be the same.

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Childhood Smiles Predict Marriage Success?!

Smiles Predict Marriage Success

By Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Staff Writer

posted: 14 April 2009 02:46 pm ET

If you want to know whether your marriage will survive, look at your spouse's yearbook photos.

Psychologists have found that how much people smile in old photographs can predict their later success in marriage.

In one test, the researchers looked at people's college yearbook photos, and rated their smile intensity from 1 to 10. None of the people who fell within the top 10 percent of smile strength had divorced, while within the bottom 10 percent of smilers, almost one in four had had a marriage that ended, the researchers say. (Scoring was based on the stretch in two muscles: one that pulls up on the mouth, and one that creates wrinkles around the eyes.)

In a second trial, the research team asked people over age 65 to provide photos from their childhood (the average age in the pictures was 10 years old). The researchers scored each person's smile, and found that only 11 percent of the biggest smilers had been divorced, while 31 percent of the frowners had experienced a broken marriage.

Overall, the results indicate that people who frown in photos are five times more likely to get a divorce than people who smile.

While the connection is striking, the researchers stress that they can't conclude anything about the cause of the correlation.

"Maybe smiling represents a positive disposition towards life," said study leader Matthew Hertenstein, a psychologist at DePauw University in Indiana. "Or maybe smiling people attract other happier people, and the combination may lead to a greater likelihood of a long-lasting marriage. We don’t really know for sure what's causing it."

Hertenstein said he has considered other explanations, such as the possibility that people who smile more often tend to attract more friends, and a larger support network makes it easier to keep a marriage healthy. Or it could be that people who smile when a photographer tells them to are more likely to have obedient personalities, which could make marriage easier.

The results of the study fit into a larger pattern of research that has found many personality characteristics can be determined from very thin slices of behavior. Basically, we often reveal ourselves in the most subtle, simple ways.

And smiling in photographs has been shown to be correlated with a number of traits, including a generally happier disposition.

"I think [our results] go along with a lot of the literature that’s been coming out over the last five to 10 years, which shows that positive emotionality is incredibly important in our lives," Hertenstein told LiveScience. "There are many, many beneficial outcomes to a positive disposition."

The findings are also notable because they found a connection between photos taken when people were young and marriage outcomes that sometimes occurred much later.

"It feeds into this idea that what's occurring earlier in our lives in terms of our present situation and our mental state can predict things that occur decades later," Hertenstein said. "Showing the continuity in who we are is really important."

The study is detailed in the April 5 issue of the journal Motivation and Emotion.

 

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