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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]Hello,
I have a few questions that maybe you guys can help me with. I have always been curious about Religion in general, but never really meet a lot of religious people that I can ask some questions that I have . So here it goes :

-If you're Christian: Do you guys have a certain number of mandatory prayers that you do every day?  For ex, Muslims pray 5 time a day.Does it depend on what branch of Christianity you follow? What is the difference between Catholics, Protestants and Methodists? Can you guys go to each other's churches?

-Jews: Shalom. What do you guys consider "Kosher". Muslims eat "Halal" but If I don't see something halal at the store, I usually buy Kosher because I was told that is very similar to Halal, even though I really don't know what Kosher fully means,  I think I understand the concept but never really asked a jewish person, so maybe you can help me out? Also, do you guys have a certain number of mandatory daily prayers like the Muslims do? Do you do ablutions before prayers?

That's all guys, thanks :)[/quote]

Muslima

Welcome. I am a Conservative Jew. I am not completely observant myself (we usually only eat kosher meat in our home, but I will eat nonkosher meat out, and we do not keep two sets of dishes, etc).

My understanding is that the requirements for how an animal is slaughtered are similar as between kosher and hallal.   The prayers said over the slaugher are of course different, and while SOME imams accept the consumption of kosher meat where hallal is not available, as far as I know NO jewish legal authority, either Orthodox or Conservative does so.  Some Jews I know will eat Hallal in place of kosher meat - both because its often very difficult to find kosher meat (and they are unwilling to forego meat entirely) and  for the sake of peace.

Salaam/shalom[/quote]

Shalom, thank you for responding. I didn't know some jews ate halal as well, though I know a lot of muslims would buy kosher given the choice between regular meat and kosher. 
Shal[/quote]

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