According to the trade website Oregon Craft Beer, Portland has the most breweries of any city in the world. But until the recent opening of Leikam Brewing, none of our city’s craft breweries had been certified kosher. A collaboration between husband-and-wife team Theo and Sonia Marie Leikam, Leikam Brewing aims to provide the Portland market…
Rabbi Tzvi Fischer, Portland Kollel “Why is kashrut relevant today?” To eat kosher is to eat more spiritual. The Torah repeatedly reminds us that its precepts are timeless and eternal. That makes kashrut as relevant as it ever was. The ideas of kashrut – referred to in the Torah as issues of Kedushah (holiness) and…
Imagine we could take a look at Jewish cuisine in a modern-day location but from a 1930s Philip Marlowe/Sam Spade classic detective perspective. Maybe it would look something like this: The name’s Boyle – Hy Boyle, private ingestigator. My beat’s San Francisco.They call me lots of things – kosher cop, deli detective, food fuzz –…
