Kosher reached a new milestone recently with the release of a report by the Mintel research organization indicating that kosher was the leading claim on labels of new products...Sarah Cohen in her feature this week covers the story of a successful expansion of a nuts manufacturer...Hospitals are marketing special rooms to attract a kosher clientele...The Amish go kosher in a big way with pasta...Observing Shabbat and keeping it kosher is a growing business in Israel...A conservative rabbi gets an NHL hockey team to offer glatt kosher fare...More Israeli restaurants are going glatt to attract kosher tourists...Idele Ross reports that an Israeli café franchise has problems finding a location in Miami and instead heads for Kiev...In Here and There we look at the OU's second annual grade school contest, a planned cooking competition in the UK, Reed's Ginger Brew's full line of six all-natural brewed ginger ales, Idele Ross covers the just concluded Chanukah season in Israel, and a new kosher restaurant will open in the North Caucasus city of Ufa...Eda Kram in her New Product Showcase covers new kosher Corn Crumbs.

Menachem Lubinsky
Editor-in-Chief