Just six years old and predicting a 15,000-strong student body by 2025, California State University Channel Islands launched a kosher dining option for a Jewish student population that grows every year.
Cal State the Latest University to Offer Kosher Option
Just six years old and predicting a 15,000-strong student body by 2025, California State University Channel Islands launched a kosher dining option for a Jewish student population that grows every year.
Arranged by Rabbi Ariel and Miriam Rav-Noy, co-directors of the Chabad Jewish Student Center at the Camarillo, Calif., university, the project – which echoes similar efforts at universities nationwide – will see kosher food available daily at the central cafeteria. Selections, which will be delivered from an outside provider three times each week, will include tuna sandwiches, egg salad sandwiches, vegetable salads, pasta salads and lasagna.
Students raved about the new options at a free tasting event last week.
“Kosher food on campus!” exclaimed freshman Jessica Randall. “This is so exciting.”
Miriam Rav-Noy explained that the Jewish center pursued the kosher dining option with students’ spiritual lives in mind.
