{"id":278897,"date":"2025-11-12T02:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278897\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:07:08","slug":"livingston-shoprite-expands-kosher-section-by-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/278897\/","title":{"rendered":"Livingston ShopRite expands kosher section by 50%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1-minute read<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/86706855007-101525-videoo-chabad-meadowlands-jewish-kosher-tailgate-met-life-21.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kosher tailgate party at MetLife Stadium &#8211; Video<\/p>\n<p>Chabad of the Meadowlands hosted a kosher tailgate party before a New York Giants game at MetLife Stadium on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A ShopRite location in Livingston debuted a kosher section last week that\u2019s 50% larger than previously offered at the supermarket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The expanded kosher section includes such frozen foods as blintzes and matzo ball soup; an array of kosher meats including beef, lamb, brisket and veal; a kosher deli and prepared foods like knishes, sushi and kugel; kosher seafood including Faroe Island salmon and Atlantic flounder; and kosher dairy featuring cheeses, spreads, herring and desserts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new kosher section increased from 65 feet to more than 150 feet, expanding from a selection of 800 kosher items to more than 1,500 food items.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\">Story continues below photo gallery<\/p>\n<p>The ShopRite is operated by Village Super Market, which has 29 locations across New Jersey and is part of a grocery cooperative known as Wakefern Food Corp. This ShopRite is located at 483 South Livingston Ave. in Livingston.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are roughly 12 million kosher customers in the U.S., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-k.org\/articles\/articles\/getting-certified\/advantage-kosher-certification\/1373\/the-global-demand-for-kosher\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to data<\/a> from Star-K,\u00a0an organization that certifies kosher foods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of 2022, New Jersey had roughly 626,000 Jewish residents, which is about 6.7% of its population, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishdatabank.org\/databank\/search-results\/study\/1251\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berman Jewish Data Bank<\/a>, which is run by the Jewish Federations of North America.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Munoz covers business, consumer affairs, labor and the economy for NorthJersey.com and The Record.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:munozd@northjersey.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">munozd@northjersey.com;<\/a>\u00a0Twitter:<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielMunoz100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@danielmunoz100<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Daniel-Munoz-Journalist\/61559022552294\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thisisdan7166\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1-minute read Kosher tailgate party at MetLife Stadium &#8211; Video Chabad of the Meadowlands hosted a kosher tailgate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,8126,2456,1295,31049,31044,28495,137,1202,9277,4324,133219,322,2289,324,3127,6778,44,4406,532,323,335,8125,31045,7240,161672,161673,8124,8133,26687,13323,441],"class_list":["post-278897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-diets","tag-facebook","tag-food","tag-food-u0026-grocery-retailers","tag-grocery","tag-grocery-shopping","tag-health","tag-instagram","tag-jersey","tag-kosher","tag-livingston","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-neutral","tag-new","tag-new-jersey","tag-news","tag-nj","tag-nutrition","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-restricted","tag-retailers","tag-shopping","tag-shoprite","tag-shoprite-supermarkets","tag-special","tag-special-u0026-restricted-diets","tag-supermarkets","tag-twitter","tag-u0026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}