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I . l For several months during the spring of his 10th grade year, Jack Millman of Running for Blue Card Manhattan had an unusual saturday as Jews, we are responsible ritual. for one another. and we have he and his mother would ride around a special responsibility to our metropolitan new York and buy up vast brothers and sisters who survived quantities of raw chicken. one of humanity’s darkest chap- Millman and his mother, ann Marks, ters. didn’t cook the poultry. instead they put of the approximately 75,000 it on ice and shipped it overnight to a lab holocaust survivors in the United in arizona, which tested it for antibiotic- states, about one-third live below resistant strains of the e. coli bacteria. the poverty line, on an average t he study, which included 213 sam- annual income of only $15,000. ples of raw chicken bought at 15 loca- thanks to organizations like the tions in the new York area, found that blue card, they are able to put kosher chicken has nearly food on the table, keep their heat twice the frequency of and lights on, and get necessary antibiotic-resistant strains as medications. non-kosher. the results were blue card provides emergency first published in the journal of the university’s center aid to 2,000 nazi victims across F1000 research in July. for ecosystem, science and the country who live in poverty. My the findings are perplex- society. hungate connected grandparents, who survived the ing. Kosher laws contain no him to Price. horrors of auschwitz and bergen- requirements about how working together, Mill- belsen, rebuilt their lives in amer- has fielded a team in the race for chickens are raised, and the man and Price designed an ica after the war with the help of the past few years, raising tens of only difference between experiment to test 10 brands organizations like blue card. thousands of dollars for elderly kosher and conventional Jack.millman of chicken in each of four now i can repay the kindness survivors in need. hurricane sandy poultry is in the slaughtering categories. Millman did not the Jewish community showed put the kibosh on my plans to run and de-feathering. perform the actual lab tests, but he col- my family, by stepping up to make last year, but i am lacing up my Lance Price, a microbiologist with lected the samples, visited the lab, and sure that others who were not as sneakers this year and asking the translation Genomics research insti- took the lead in writing up the results. lucky as my grandparents receive local community to help support tute in Phoenix who helped design the he also presented the findings at the the help they desperately need. this important work. study, suggested that kosher compa- american society for Microbiology con- even as the number of holocaust nothing can replace what was nies may be sourcing from producers or ference in denver this year. survivors worldwide shrinks, their taken from victims of the nazi re- hatcheries that use more antibiotics. Millman and the professional scien- needs increase as they age and gime. we must make certain that but Joe regenstein, a food scien- tists with whom he partnered acknowl- their health falters. they need our its survivors are not forgotten in tist at cornell University, and timothy edge that the study, with its relatively help. Many of blue card’s clients their old age and have the means Lytton, the author of a recently pub- small sample size, is not intended to were not as fortunate as my grand- to live out their final years in dig- lished book on the kosher food indus- offer the final word on the topic. parents and have little to no family nity. i am running because of that try, dispute that notion. “this was big enough for a pilot of their own – except the Jewish responsibility. writing recently in Food safety news, study, and the finding was dramatic community. to learn more about my cam- regenstein and Lytton say a likelier and consistent enough to indicate a on november 3, i am running paign and make a contribution, go explanation lies in the kosher method of problem,” Price said. “of course there’s the new York city Marathon on to www.imathlete.com/donate/ feather removal. Most poultry is placed a need to follow up with a larger study behalf of the blue card, which joshlipowsky. Josh LIpowskY in scalding water before plucking, but and larger sample.” kosher poultry is dry plucked or soaked Price said that because the drugs in very cold water due to restrictions used by companies to raise chickens prohibiting any form of cooking before are “considered a trade secret” in the the meat has been soaked and salted. United states, provided they use FDA- For convenient home delivery, “immersion in scalding water prior to approved antibiotics, it is difficult for plucking of non-kosher poultry produc- researchers to track. he noted that 29.9 call 201-837-8818 or bit.ly/jsubscribe tion reduces microbial load, by either million pounds of antibiotics are used washing microbes away or by killing each year in meat production, com- them, which might account for dif- pared to 7.7 million used for human ferences between kosher and other medical purposes. PUbLisher’s stateMent: (UsPs 275-700 isn 0021-6747) is published weekly on Fridays with an additional edition production methods,” regenstein and Millman said he isn’t sure whether every october, by the new Jersey Jewish Media Group, 1086 CONTENTS teaneck road, teaneck, nJ 07666. Periodicals postage paid Noshes....................................................4 Lytton wrote. more research with raw chicken is in his at hackensack, nJ and additional offices. POSTMASTER: Millman, 17, who does not keep future, though he remains concerned send address changes to new Jersey Jewish Media Group, oPINIoN................................................20 1086 teaneck road, teaneck, nJ 07666. subscription price cover.story ������������������������������������ 24 kosher, said in an interview between about the overuse of antibiotics in meat is $30.00 per year. out-of-state subscriptions are $45.00, Foreign countries subscriptions are $75.00. FINaNce.aNd.INvestINg............. 33 classes at the prestigious horace Mann production and its implications for the appearance of an advertisement in the Jewish standard healthy.lIvINg.& does not constitute a kashrut endorsement. the publishing school in riverdale that he was “very consumer health and the emergence of of a paid political advertisement does not constitute an adult.lIFestyles ��������������������������48 surprised” by the findings. he first be- drug-resistant bacteria. endorsement of any candidate political party or political torah.commeNtary ������������������� 57 position by the newspaper, the Federation or any employees. arts.aNd.culture........................ 59 came interested in kashrut a few years because he has a wide range of inter- the Jewish standard assumes no responsibility to return ago during a family trip to israel. ests, Millman, a high school senior, has unsolicited editorial or graphic materials. all rights in letters caleNdar............................................61 and unsolicited editorial, and graphic material will be treated crossword.Puzzle..................... 63 “while we were there, we were eating yet to decide whether he will major in as unconditionally assigned for publication and copyright purposes and subject to JEWISH STANDARD’s unrestricted lIFECYCLE �������������������������������������������64 a lot of kosher food, and i was inter- the sciences in college. right to edit and to comment editorially. nothing may be classifieds.......................................66 ested in whether kosher is healthier,” he “i guess the most important skill that reprinted in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. © 2013 gallery............................................... 68 said. i learned is the importance of asking real.estate ��������������������������������������69 interested in exploring the question, good questions and being willing to Millman approached his uncle, bruce follow where your curiosity takes you,” Candlelighting: Friday, October 18, 5:54 p.m. hungate, a biology professor at north- Millman said. Shabbat ends: Saturday, October 19, 6:52 p.m. ern arizona University and the director JuLIe wIener / Jta wIre servIce Jewish standard october 18, 2013 3 JS-5 Jewish standard OCtOBer 18, 2013 5 HNMC_RehabAd_JewishStandard0913.indd 1 9/12/13 1:25 PM JS-6* Local United Synagogue looks to the future Teaneck rabbi upbeat about the Conservative movement’s chances Phil Jacobs a program that had a presence on many college campuses. Over the last few years, baltimore – Rabbi Jim Rogozen of though, funding to the program was Teaneck took a seat for a few minutes and reduced, and last year it was shuttered.