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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012

Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.

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Kosher Cheeseburger? Not Impossible With Vegan 'Meat' That Conforms To Jewish Dietary Laws

Doron Levin , CONTRIBUTORI cover the global automotive industry  Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

CAMBRIDGE , MA - OCTOBER 19: The meatless Impossible Burger is pictured at Little Donkey in Cambridge, MA on Oct. 19, 2017. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Impossible Foods, the Redwood City, Calif.-based venture backed by Bill Gates and others, has achieved kosher certification for its plant-based food product that emulates ground beef and is served in about 1,500 U.S. restaurants, opening a new potential marketing niche.

According to Jewish dietary law, meat products are prohibited to be consumed with milk or products derived from milk, such as cheese. Since only plant-based substances are used to make the Impossible Burger, its kosher certification means that a cheeseburger is legal for a person of the Jewish faith who keeps dietary law – as long as the cheese also is kosher and it is cooked on utensils deemed kosher.

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 11: CEO of sbe's Disruptive Restaurant Group and Umami Burger Daniel del Olmo, Umami Burger COO Gregg Frazer, Drew Fitzgerald, COO & CFO of Impossible Foods David Lee and American Red Cross of Massachusetts Jarrett Barrios attend the Umami Burger x Jaden Smith Artist Series Launch Event at The Grove on October 11, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for Umami Burger x Jaden Smith Artist Series)

Though Jews who follow dietary laws represent a relatively tiny sliver of Impossible Foods’ potential customer base, the latest certification gives the company another chance to highlight the science and thinking that went behind the product’s creation.  The company said it will seek Halal certification, important to Muslims, later this year.

Representatives of the Orthodox Union, one of the most important Kosher certification groups, earlier this year toured Impossible Foods’ 67,000-square-foot plant in Oakland, Calif., and confirmed that all ingredients, processes and equipment used to make the food comply with Jewish dietary laws, which derive from the Torah, also known as the Five Books of Moses.