America’s largest kosher chicken company, Empire Kosher Poultry, churns out 240,000 chickens and 27,000 turkeys a week. Armed with a camera, JTA Managing Editor Uriel Heilman visited the plant ...

The assembly line at Empire Kosher Poultry's plant in central Pennsylvania is the largest kosher one of its kind in America, with 240,000 chickens and 27,000 turkeys passing through every week. (Uriel ...

Now located in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, Empire Kosher is the largest producer of fresh kosher poultry in the U.S. The company offers fresh and frozen poultry, deli meats and further processed ...

Empire Kosher was founded in 1938 in Liberty, New Jersey, by Austrian immigrant Joseph Katz, who recognized a need for kosher food production. In the 1960s, the company relocated to Pennsylvania. The ...

Passover ends at sundown on April 16. Based in Mifflintown, Empire Kosher is the largest producer of kosher poultry in the U.S. and Juniata County’s largest employer, with approximately 750 employees.

A Kosherfest organizer says a Conservative rabbi’s certification agency was allowed to participate because it “fell between the cracks.” Since the whole point of chicken nuggets is bite ...