I’ve looked at that idea but with maybe 1,000 Jews nationwide and most of em not keeping kosher it doesn’t seem to be a viable business model. That plus Japan puts up reams of red tape around food imports making it really only viable when you are doing enough quantity to justify that extra time/payroll expense. Bringing in processed beef is banned outright in almost all cases so even doing some trade in “luxury” items like kosher beef salami or cold cuts becomes out of the question.
Considered yes, but first I’d have to get rabbinic certification then to slaughter at Orthodox standards much less Glatt/Chabad standards it would be a few years before I could schect birds for my community.
I’ve met some of the traveling mashgiachs who cover the Asia circuit and they are indeed away from their families for long periods. Plus the all end up hauling an extra suitcase full of ready made kosher meals or cans of tuna and packs of crackers to handle the impossibility of eating kosher while traveling & working like that.
1- That it actually makes a heck of a lot of sense for people who travel a lot, and haven’t yet discovered things like refrigeration or germ theory or soap.
2- That Yahweh and the Jews made a deal, and following the 600-and-some-odd rules in the Old Testament is what you do to show that you’re keeping up your end of the bargain.
The reason is to make you feel good about yourself. If it works, it’s a good enough reason for me Obviously as an atheist you can feel good about yourself for no good reason too, just consider yourself a better person for not being indoctrinated enough as a child
Oh yeah, that sounds much easier than pricking the skin and nuking the sweet potato for about 8-10 minutes (in 4-5 minute shots, turinng the potato over). Yeah.
Not as much as you might think. There is no taste difference between kosher and “kosher style” pastrami and in fact the best recognized Jewish delis in NYC were not/are not under kosher supervision. Katz’s is probably the best known pastrami sandwich in NYC and they have never been under kosher supervision.
It is some, but not all nuts, and doesn’t seem to follow any kind of logic. I can do cashews, and occasionally pecans, but never walnuts or macadamias. Also no peanuts. Once in a while, I can have a small amount of something with no ill effects- The next time, one bite puts me in the hospital.
I find it’s generally easier to adopt an across the board “NO NUTS” policy than to pick and choose and take my chances.
Obviously as an atheist you can feel good about yourself for no good reason too, just consider yourself a better person for not being indoctrinated enough as a child 
If he’s not a Jew its OK to send.