• 1(of food, or premises in which food is sold, cooked, or eaten) satisfying the requirements of Jewish law.

  a kosher kitchen

  Example sentencesExamples

  • For kosher meat, Kashrut law stipulates that all meat must be consumed within 72 hours of slaughter.
  • An American film crew, with Jewish producers, ‘just happened’ to be in post-production at the time, and they insisted on kosher food.
  • Animals killed for Muslim halal and Jewish kosher meat are exempt from the rule that ensures all animals are stunned before being slaughtered.
  • The center, which prepares kosher food for needy Jews, occupies the ground floor of a five-story residential building.
  • Since customers would normally assume the meat is kosher, the defect must be revealed to all customers, even non-Jewish ones, to avoid misleading them.
  • KosherPets was founded by a Florida couple who started feeding kosher meat to their dog for health reasons.
  • That's when you combine kosher salt, brown sugar, juniper berries, and a lot of water.
  • Now, thank God, we have two beautiful Jewish children attending Jewish day school, keep Shabbat and have a kosher kitchen.
  • Having placed their beliefs and trust in the national union, Jewish students expected, as promised, their religious requirements of kosher food to be met.
  • They visit the kitchens to certify that the food is kosher, that is, cooked in accordance with Jewish law.
  • Paul and James soon came into conflict as Paul gradually dropped the basic Jewish ceremonies and rituals, such as the eating of kosher foods and the circumcision.
  • ‘Our wedding meal was the first kosher food we ever ate,’ recalled Sarah years later.
  • Then he added it to a bowl with cayenne pepper, kosher salt, and brown sugar.
  • The soldier related that he was assigned to a remote base where there were no Jewish soldiers, no religious services, no kosher food and where it was impossible to keep Shabbat or any mitzvah at all.
  • No less a part of Jewish tradition than kosher food or circumcision, faith in the coming of the Messiah is a central pillar of Judaism.
  • Sara Goldstein, of Long Island, New York, has the added requirement of finding kosher foods suitable for her Weight Watchers diet.
  • Or, scrub the pot with half a lemon sprinkled with kosher salt, and rinse thoroughly.
  • But my mother was worried about how she would feed and care for four kids who could eat only kosher food.
  • Being hungry, I stopped at the cafeteria and asked if they had kosher food.
  • The Army lost all the kosher food I'd brought with me, and my wife had to work hard back in the States just to make sure I was fed.

  Synonyms

  allowable, allowed, permissible, permitted, acceptable, passable, tolerable, satisfactory, justifiable, defensible, supportable, well founded, tenable, sound, sensible, reasonable

  1. 1.1 (of a person) observing Jewish food laws.
  2. 1.2 (of ritual objects) fit for use according to Jewish laws.

• 2informal Genuine and legitimate.

  she consulted lawyers to make sure everything was kosher

  Example sentencesExamples

  • Despite its widespread popularity among Florida's politicians, the bond cap statute was not entirely kosher from a constitutional point of view.
  • ‘I recognised from the beginning that it wasn't kosher,’ she told the inspectors.
  • I've talked to real witch hunters, kosher ones, who spent years and years going through real witchcraft trial evidence in France to see what the real witches were like but a lot of them were male.
  • Yet I had always felt something wasn't quite kosher.
  • I know this isn't kosher, this isn't how you're supposed to read books!
  • Something else about his movements wasn't kosher.

  Synonyms

  authentic, real, actual, original, pukka, bona fide, true, veritable, unfeigned, unadulterated, unalloyed

Restrictions on the foods suitable for Jews are derived from rules in the books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Animals must be slaughtered and prepared in the prescribed way, in which the blood is drained from the body, while certain creatures, notably pigs and shellfish, are forbidden altogether. Meat and milk must not be cooked or consumed together, and separate utensils must be kept for each. Strict observance of these rules is today confined mainly to Orthodox Jews

• Prepare (food) according to the requirements of Jewish law.

  Example sentencesExamples

  • The consumer is advised to check this with the butcher to determine if the meat has been koshered.
  • Nowadays, most meat is koshered before sale by the butcher, thus sparing the consumer the trouble.
  • Livers are koshered by being salted and grilled until cooked through, instead of being soaked.
  • Liver may only be koshered by the broiling method, because it has so much blood in it and such complex blood vessels.
  • Liver may only be koshered through broiling, because of the preponderance of blood in it.
  • Meat to be koshered must come from animals that have split hooves and chew their cud.
  • All other oils not marked with a ` K’ have been made on equipment that may have been used for animal products and have been koshered in an acceptable manner.
  • Some organs can not be koshered merely by salting and rinsing; they require special treatment.
  • Those who are strict about eating only glatt kosher meat eat only meat that is koshered within the three days of Shechita.
  • Meat and poultry must be properly slaughtered and koshered in the manner outlined in the Jewish dietary laws.
  • Pot and utensils that cannot be koshered are put away and replaced with Passover dishes.
  • Foods that are made with fire - barbecue, anything baked in an oven - have to be koshered with fire.