Update: The kosher dogs are back

Good news for baseball-loving Jews: The kosher concession stand at Camden Yards, home of the Baltimore Orioles, will return for at least another season. I previously blogged about Kosher Sports' decision to shutter the stand after they failed to reach a new contract agreement with Aramark, the Orioles' concessionaire.

JTA reports:

“There will be a kosher stand at the Orioles games,” said Jonathan Katz, the owner and founder of Kosher Sports. “They realized it was an important thing to have. The Orioles reached out in conjunction with Aramark to get this thing rectified.”

The stand, which will be open for Opening Day on Monday, will be located in left field and feature hotdogs, knishes and soft pretzels.

In other Maryland-kosher news, JTA is also reporting that the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services will begin providing daily kosher meals to Jewish inmates. Any of the 130 inmates registered as Jewish in the Maryland prison system will be eligible for three kosher meals per day. The program begins April 17 - that's the day after Passover. (Maryland inmates have already been receiving kosher for Passover meals.)

Inmates in California prisons are already receiving kosher food, after a 2003 settlement by the Department of Corrections with Victor Wayne Cooper, an Orthodox Jewish inmate at California State Prison Solano. The settlement required the state to make a good-faith effort to provide kosher food to inmates in all its prisons by 2006, so presumably California inmates have been keeping kosher for at least three years.

(Photo courtesy of VosIsNeias.com)

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