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  2. Comparison of Islamic and Jewish dietary laws - Wikipedia

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    The Islamic dietary laws and the Jewish dietary laws (kashrut; in English, kosher) are both quite detailed, and contain both points of similarity and discord.Both are the dietary laws and described in distinct religious texts: an explanation of the Islamic code of law found in the Quran and Sunnah and the Jewish code of laws found in the Torah, Talmud and Shulchan Aruch.

  3. Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork - Wikipedia

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    The pig tended to be regarded as a dangerously liminal animal. With the feet of a cud-eater, the diet of a scavenger, the habits of a dirt-dweller and the cunning of a human, it exhibited an unsettling combination of characteristics, rendering it culturally inedible for some (but not all) southern Levantine peoples, for whom pigs were often associated with the underworld or malevolent ...

  4. Food and drink prohibitions - Wikipedia

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    Eating oysters raw, ikizukuri, and other similar cases would be considered a violation of this in Jewish law. [107] Examples of the eating of animals that are still alive include eating live seafood, such as "raw oyster on the half shell" and ikizukuri (live fish). Sashimi using live animals has been banned in some countries.

  5. Kosher animals - Wikipedia

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    If a bird kills other animals to get its food, eats meat, or is a dangerous bird, then is not kosher, a predatory bird is unfit to eat, raptors like the eagles, hawks, owls and other hunting birds are not kosher, vultures and other carrion-eating birds are not kosher either.

  6. Christian dietary laws - Wikipedia

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    [13] In Judaism, Jews are forbidden from consuming (amongst other things) any mammals except those with cloven hooves that chew their cud, [14] shellfish (including all invertebrate seafood) and unscaled or finless fish, [14] blood, [15] food offered to idols, [16] or the meat of animals not killed humanely with a sharp knife by a trained ...

  7. Why do Jews eat Chinese food on Christmas? How the ... - AOL

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    It's Christmas 2015, and the streets of lower Manhattan are packed. It's my first and only Christmas ever spent in New York City, and my plans to meet up with a Jewish friend for what we thought ...

  8. Milk and meat in Jewish law - Wikipedia

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    The mixture of meat and dairy (Hebrew: בשר בחלב, romanized: basar bechalav, lit. 'meat in milk') is forbidden according to Jewish law.This dietary law, basic to kashrut, is based on two verses in the Book of Exodus, which forbid "boiling a (goat) kid in its mother's milk" [1] and a third repetition of this prohibition in Deuteronomy.

  9. The Best Traditional Hanukkah Foods, From Latkes to Donuts - AOL

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    Hanukkah may be nicknamed the Festival of Lights, but if you ask us, it’s also a Festival of FOOD! Because Hanukkah celebrates the miracle of a small amount of lamp oil keeping the Second Temple ...