We lead this week with two new studies by Mintel with interesting implications for the kosher food market, one on the number of new kosher products, the other on the consumer trends of Jews who covert "sacred foods"...Speaking of surveys, there is a new study in Israel about more religious Jews turning to healthier foods...We've got the exciting story of a new super kosher store in Las Vegas and a scoop of a new bug-free vegetable producer...Jerusalem's eateries are left with little choice but to go kosher. Pillsbury is investing big time in Israel. An Israeli dough boy?...Eda Kram has a new kosher product from Nestlé's... Some interesting tidbits on a new program by Elite, new seminars at the OU, and new kosher pasta in the Ukraine...Finally, we're still on the El Al story because the airline may soon find some new competitors breathing down its neck....

 

Menachem Lubinsky
Editor-in-Chief