NYC’s free summer meal program for kids offers halal food — without listing kosher options

The city Department of Education’s summer meal program for NYC youths boasts a variety of halal options at more than 25 locations citywide, but kosher food “must be specially ordered,” officials told The Post.

Free breakfasts and lunches will be served at hundreds of locations – schools, pools, libraries and parks – for anyone up to 18 years old, including all students from both public and private schools.

Halal food –  permissible for Muslims to eat under Islamic law –  is available for the taking by anyone who shows up at the listed locations.

Kosher food, for observant Jewish kids, is not mentioned on the DOE website…

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