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As Israel-Hamas War rages on, students in Ohio revived a kosher-halal co-op

In January, a group of Oberlin College students and alumni decided to bring Jewish and Muslim students together for breakfast, lunch and dinner through a kosher-halal co-op.

(Religion Unplugged) — Founded more than half a century ago as student-run dining cooperative, Oberlin College’s kosher co-op morphed into a kosher-halal co-op in 1995, a place where Jewish and Muslim students cooked and ate together.

It shuttered in 2021 after the liberal arts college opened its own kosher dining hall — which also serves halal options — and declined to renew the co-op’s lease on an industrial campus...

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