Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

November 21, 2018

Thanks to the Free Market, and to Popular Interest, American Jews Benefit from a Cornucopia of Kosher Foods

The kosher-industrial complex.

Having grown up in a religiously observant Jewish home in the 1960s and 70s, Jeff Jacoby remembers that such commonplace packaged foods as Oreo cookies and Sara Lee cakes were off-limits, since it was impossible to know if they were kosher. Now these are among the many items—40 percent of all packaged food and drinks sold in the U.S.—that bear kosher certification. Jacoby reflects on the radical expansion of what he calls “the kosher-industrial complex” in his own lifetime:

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