Is Winn Dixie Beef "Glatt" Kosher

Arlene Capeluto, a fellow member of Congregation Kol Ami, shops for kosher meats at the due south Tampa Winn Dixie. She makes regular trips to the shop from her home in Carrollwood. The shop likewise has a kosher dairy section that includes milk, cheese, sauces and yogurts.

Certain, summer has finally turned into autumn, but when you live in Florida, it'south smoothie weather most anytime – and now you lot tin can become a kosher one at the Winn Dixie in south Tampa.

If you think that is cool, consider this: Winn Dixie has 750 stores and simply 1 of them, the store at 2100 W. Swann Ave., has a kosher smoothie machine.

Rabbi Levi Rivkin of Bais Menachem Chabad in s Tampa agrees that a kosher smoothie is a dainty curiosity and volunteered to audit it as needed, just believes what is actually significant is that the recently revamped Winn Dixie has greatly expanded its kosher offerings.

Winn Dixie touts that the store carries more than 1,000 different items, including pre-packaged glatt kosher fresh and frozen meat. And, you can't miss them. Throughout the store, the kosher product areas are marked with brilliant blue signs.

Up until at present, for many Jews in the Tampa Bay expanse, particularly in Tampa, it has been hard to go along kosher, said Rabbi Rivkin.

The South Tampa Winn Dixie now offers a variety of kosher breads.

"When students or others exercise not have admission to kosher, it moves them further and further away from Judaism. Kosher food is very important to the Jewish customs; information technology makes y'all a more holy person, according to the Torah," he said. "It keeps Judaism alive."

Rabbi Josh Hearshen of Congregation Rodeph Sholom in due south Tampa called the Winn Dixie store's kosher expansion "a gamechanger."

While Jo-El's Delicatessen and Market place in St. Petersburg nevertheless has the most kosher offerings and its ain kosher butcher, for those in Tampa non inclined to frequent drives across the Bay, the Winn Dixie offerings make it much more convenient to keep kosher, he said.

Rabbi Rivkin says since 2007 he has often pestered local grocers to add more kosher products. "I noodged them all," he said. He said he thought his words were falling on deaf ears, until the store manager at the Winn Dixie on Swann told him it was going to happen as part of a store makeover project.

Several local rabbis and others from the Jewish community attended a meeting with Winn Dixie folks to requite input on what the store should offer. The revamped store officially opened Oct. 20.

"Prior to the re-fix in Tampa, we only had near 12 feet (of shelf displays forth an aisle) for dry grocery goods," said Amanda Blakeslee, a buyer for the shop chain, explaining that those shelves contained only almost 120 kosher items. "But at present at that place are 20 feet of brandish shelving for dry foods, viii feet for meats, iv feet for dairy products, and three doors of kosher goods in the frozen food department," she said. Additionally there are kosher breads in the bakery area, a kosher wine department with wines from State of israel, and the smoothie machine.

Blakeslee said there are about 375 Winn Dixie stores in Florida and 110 of them now take a kosher option similar to that offered at the s Tampa shop. None of the stores with the expanded kosher items are in Pinellas Canton.

A couple weeks ago, niggling before the store'south 10 p.thousand. closing fourth dimension, Arlene Capeluto of Carrollwood was shopping in the kosher meat department and said she has been making the drive to the store always since she heard it was open. "Information technology is overnice to take this option to cull from," she said.

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