Kosher Nation

By Nicole Neroulias Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) What does it really mean for your Hebrew National hot dog to "answer to a higher authority?"...

Positive change is afoot in the kosher world. Today, more people are increasingly concerned about the food they eat, where it comes from and who is making it. They want to be assured that it is clean, fresh, safe and healthy.

I was at an organic turkey farm an hour and a half north of San Francisco with two dozen other volunteers preparing what would become the main entrée for the Hazon Food Conference's Shabbat dinner later that week.

There's a shocking statistic in Sue Fishkoff's new book, Kosher Nation: The majority of people who buy kosher products are not even Jewish.