keep kosher

Verb

keep kosher (third-person singular simple present keeps kosher, present participle keeping kosher, simple past and past participle kept kosher)

1. to observe the rules of kashrut (Jewish dietary laws)
   • In an amazing halachic twist, the Chofetz Chaim (in Sefer Machaneh Yisroel), writing in the late 19th century to Jewish soldiers in the army, notes that if a soldier has the choice to either go to an army base in which he can keep Shabbat but cannot keep kosher or go to a different army base in...2018 February 1, Yogi Robkin, “Is It Easier To Keep Shabbat Than It Is To Keep Kosher?”, in The Forward