The Mets have been battling it out with Kosher Foods Inc. over whether the company is entitled to serve glatt kosher food every day of the week at Citi Field, or if serving food on Friday nights and Saturdays violates the Sabbath. The case has been bounced to Federal court, but the Judge in it has now chosen to recuse himself, for fear of seeming biased in favor of the orange and blue boys from Queens. more ›

Are Kosher Food Inc's practices too treif for the Mets? After a Brooklyn judge ruled that it was not his place to interpret rabbinical law, the Mets and Kosher Foods Inc have taken their battle to Federal court. Kosher Foods Inc says that they're entitled to serve glatt kosher food every day of the week at Citi Field, while the Mets argue that serving food on Friday nights and Saturdays violates the Sabbath. Because if there's one thing the Mets are experts on, it's religious law. more ›

The unidentified NYPD police officer that slapped Rabbi Sholom Emert with a jaywalking ticket on Shabbos has now been transferred to a less Jewish Orthodox community, reports the Flatbush Scoop. The ticket was handed over in the Midwood section of Brooklyn on November 26th, and Emert said the officer was rude when he busted him. Specifically, he made him write his own name down—thus forcing him to violate Jewish law on the Sabbath, lest he end up in the station. more ›

Rabbi Sholom Emert says he doesn't have a problem with getting a ticket for jaywalking, but he does have a problem with the officer who ticketed him on the Sabbath. According to WCBS, members of Brooklyn’s orthodox Jewish community are all riled up because the officer was insensitive and made Emert write his name down—which isn't allowed on the Sabbath. The rabbi told them, “This officer did not understand my religious life. I told him I’m a Sabbath observer. I don’t have ID on me. I live down the block. You can come to my house and I’ll give you my ID. So he said if you have no ID we have to take you to the precinct." Emert then chose to write his name down over the less convenient alternative. more ›

In some buildings, there are shabbat (or shabbos) elevators that stop on every floor, allowing observant Jews to travel on them without worrying about breaking the Sabbath and using technology. However, a recent ruling in Israel appears to ban use of Shabbat elevators and even suggests they may be a "desecration of the Sabbath." But New York Jews don't seem that worried—one told the NY Times, "One of the wonderful things about Judaism is that there are competing opinions about everything." more ›

An observant Jewish senior at Mott Hall High School in Harlem is missing her graduation—because the ceremony takes place on the Sabbath. The Post reports that Li Morse, "who is one of just nine white students in the 400-person school and the only Jewish student in her grade," is really upset: "This is one of the most absurd situations in my life. I'm very angry." Morse's mother pleaded with the school's principal, pointing out that even her daughter's classmates made sure the senior class trip didn't conflict with Jewish holidays. But the school held firm, only offering a diploma ceremony at the school library on Friday. Morse's mother said, "She shouldn't have to choose between her religion and her high-school graduation," while the teen, who will attend the College of Staten Island this all, said, "It's my high-school graduation. I went through 12 years of school. It's a big life event, and I wanted to do it, and I can't." The school nor the Department of Education had comment for the Post. more ›