It's the 20th anniversary of the first ever Kosher Food and Jewish Life Expo, a good opportunity to profile the ongoing development of good kosher food and wines. I take a quick look back at a watershed event for the kosher food industry...Our lead story is that consumers are certainly willing to pay the price, as was evidenced by several events we covered...There was the first time ever Kosher Food and Wine Experience sponsored by Royal in lower Manhattan and a new gourmet food and wine fair in Jerusalem...Fundraisers are also joining the bandwagon, organizing events for charity that profile good kosher chefs and good kosher food and wines... Sarah Cohen looks at one of the 17 winemakers from around the world who were at the Kedem event...Kosher vending may never be the same again, thanks to two enterprising young men...Kosher food sales in Israel are expected to soar this Passover...Rabbis in Israel cast aspersions over kashrus of broccoli...We're watching A&P's potential bid for Pathmark...Here and There covers an invitation to a popular kosher cookbook author to the August Edinburgh International Book Festival...and the Idit consortium won a $20 million contract to supply kosher meals to the IDF...Eda Kram's New Product Showcase this week are cereals fit for Passover.

Menachem Lubinsky
Editor-in-Chief