We do not contact anyone unless you provide your name when asking a question or add your name to our guestbook, and we will remove your name if you do not wish to receive any information from us. Religious food practices vary widely. Prohibitions and restrictions even within a particular faith may change between denominations or branches.
National variations are also common.
Further, individual adherence to a religious diet is often based on personal degree of orthodoxy. Our intention is to provide only a brief overview of religious food practices. The main differences between them are their positions on the Jewish laws. Orthodox Jews believe the laws are the direct commandments of God, to be explicitly followed by the faithful. Conservative Jews fall in between the other congregations in their beliefs and adherence to the laws.