Jewish Food - Restrictions and Holidays

Jewdisim is a very important and largely practiced faith in America and world wide. Like many faiths, Jewdisim has food restrictions and holidays with deeply intgreated traditional recipes and meals. Many Jews, more spefically orthodox and traditional participate in a dietary restriction called kosher. Kosher is about reverence and adherence to religous traditon. A rough idea of what is permitted in this law is, ritually slaughtered beef, deer, sheeps and goats, chicken, turkey, quail and geese, no dairy with proper meat products (ex. cheeseburger) and only soft cheese and kosher hard cheese. For Jews who abide by these religious laws, there are commercial symbols on products that are kosher. There are also many holidays that have specific food traditions implemented into these holidays including, Hanukkah, Passover, Purim, Rosh Hashanah, Shavuot, Torah and Yom Kippur food. This section will ust go over a few of the holidays and the types of food that are eaten during them. Hanukkah, celebrated for each of the 8 day and nights the candle stayed burning in the temple has a host of traditional foods. Latkes are a potato treat celebrating the miracle of the oil and are a staple in jewsish homes during this time. During all Jewish holidays besides Passover, Challah is a fluffy holy bread that represents the bread that God had them eat once they got to the Holy Land. It is oftenly braided and can come in 3, 6 or even round braided shapes or designs. In America schools it is very common for christanty's holidays, eating habits/guidlines and other religously important concepts to be integraded into schools. Keeping this in mind,I believe that the awarness of Jewish dietary restrictions and habits should be brought to the attenion of Quest Food Services inorder to ensure that all students who are reciving lunches can have a benefical meal in allowence with their dietary restrictions. To meet the religous dietary needs/ requirments of those who participate in the Kosher lifestyle it will be nessasary to purchase the already prepared food from a trustworthy butcher or preparer in this community. Then it will be given out to students apon request from parents during the student's lunch period. To ensure the proper storage and prep of this food, it may also be in the school's best intrest to hire someone who knows how to work with the religous traditon.