If you were waiting for a virtual Kosherfest this year, think again. Read our story…Israel is in lockdown mode, but tourism officials are optimistic about the future…Was Kosherfest the first sign of an impending peace between the UAE and Israel? Read our truly fascinating account of peace in the making…For this year’s Rosh Hashanah story, we’ve got lots of kosher wine news…In Poland, some officials want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, in this case more than $1 billion of kosher meat and poultry business…In My Sixth Sense, I look at the new prominence of social media in the marketing of kosher foods…Eda Kram has some great new kosher products from Hershey’s.

We wish all our readers a happy and healthy New Year of 5781.

Menachem Lubinsky
Editor-in-Chief