<p>Hey, everybody. I'm looking for a college/uni (preferably college) that offers halal/kosher food as an option in their dining or set in a location where there are kosher/halal restaurants around.</p>
<p>I know some will think or say "Why not go vegan/vegetarian?" and believe me, I would (I love sea food), but unfortunately I have low blood pressure and I can't survive on vegetables or fish. My mom's stocking my diet with lamb and <em>gag</em> liver.</p>
<p>Thanks, anybody and everybody!</p>
<p>(I already have a few - but it seems so little - colleges on my list.)</p>
<p>have you looked at the hillel.org website - there is a college guide and you can search for schools that offer kosher food. BUT - word of warning - the site is not always accurate, it leaves some out, and lists some that don't really offer it - always go to the school's site and check there as well. you can then also check re halal.</p>
<p>Just a note to the OP regarding American terminology: seafood isn't the same as fish; seafood implies shellfish, which is not kosher and would not be found in a kosher dining facility. Asking for shellfish (such as shrimp or lobster) in a kosher dining hall is a blunder. (Aside from similarities of slaughtering ritual and absence of pork, kosher and halal law may not always match.) Regarding availability, a school in a large cosmopolitan city such as New York or Chicago would provide access to commercial kosher and halal food; schools in other areas mght also, but for specifics about any school's dining halls I would suggest going on Web sites of schools you are interested in and checking the student life sections to see what they say about religious/special meals and special-interest dining halls.</p>
<p>Tufts and Brandeis devout an entire dining option to kosher food, which is believable considering also that at both school atleast 1/3 of the students are Jewish, at Brandeis 54% are self-identified.</p>
<p>Excellent kosher/hallal at both Mt. Holyoke and Smith - combined, it also promotes interfaith dialogue. (and my d. says the food is terrific.) They only work if you are of the feminine persuasion.</p>
<p>is that information out of date and do they now have a kosher dining hall?</p>
<p>just a word of warning to OP -- how different schools provide kosher meals varies greatly -- for example, we came across one school listed as having kosher meals available, that really just had a kitchen in their hillel house that students could use to cook their own meals. always be careful to understand exactly how a school dining arrangements for alternate meals really works so that you can determine if it will work for you.</p>
<p>Fish is pareve (neither meat nor dairy) and can be eaten with either. It therefore falls into the same class as vegetables which are also pareve.</p>
<p>Tufts just built two new dining halls within the last few years and has expanded there dining options...they list both of them, but I don't remember any microwave, the food was served like any other food, no microwaves and self-preperation, that part is outdate. The school is slowly working to meet the students within campus dining.</p>
<p>Just goes to show how hard it is to get accurate info re this. You'd think schools and hillels would keep their web info up to date, but its just not always the case.</p>
<p>Williams College has a (small) Kosher/Halaal option. However, this could soon blossom out to an entire Kosher/Halaal dining hall as they renovate one of the college's 5 dining halls this coming summer.</p>
<p>Go to the Hillel website at <a href="http://www.hillel.org%5B/url%5D">www.hillel.org</a>. They have a searchable database that turns up not just schools with active Hillel organizations on campus, but also specifies whether they have a kosher kitchen. They also list a student Hillel contact for each campus, so you can email them directly and ask about food options.</p>
<p>How Kosher is Kosher? My brother wouldn't eat what UCLA offers as far as Kosher food goes, but he is the strictest as one can be when it comes to such matters. Many others feel their food is Kosher enough. So again, how Kosher does this have to be?</p>