Foods No Jewish Person Should Eat

Not everyone in America has access to the best Jewish foods. There are some that we just could cringe at eating if we really think about it. This can be buying Jewish Rye bread, or bagels at the store, or eating lunch meat speared with yellow mustard—it needs to be spicy mustard. This is being tad comical, but there are kosher foods that some Jewish don’t eat. This needs to be respected. Kosher foods can be divided into pareve, meat and dairy. Many Jews eat kosher because God commanded them to Leviticus. It was a sign of respect to God for taking the Jewish people out of Egypt. They were commanded to eat holy to help them spiritually fit as commanded in the Torah. Kosher kitchens have separate cookware to insure that dairy and the meat are not ever cooked together. Here are some foods that should be avoided if eating kosher is what you desire.

Pork and Other Meats

The Torah instructs that we are sensitive to the animals and prohibits cruelty to animals. This needs to be heeded. Jews can eat meat from animals with split hooves and it needs to be prepared and killed correctly. Deuteronomy lists what can be eaten.”The beasts which ye may eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat….the gazelle, and the roebuck, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the antelope, and the mountain-sheep--and every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof wholly cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that ye may eat.” Jews can’t eat swine since “[it]cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you; of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch.”