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"My mother kept a kosher home, observing every holiday.
This was never easy, but here it was even harder than it had
been in the Old Country. There was no kosher meat, and hard-working
men needed nourishment, so my father learned how to slaughter
fowl in the prescribed way."
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"The West brought unique challenges for observant Jewish
women on isolated homesteads and ranches.... Some women relaxed
their observance of kosher dietary laws; some Jewish men worked
on Saturday or prayed without a minyan, the ten men required
for services."
Elizabeth
Jameson,
University
of Calgary
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