All of our products are certified Glatt Kosher & to the Beit Yosef’s standards under the supervision of Rabbi Eliyahu Ben Haim, Av Beit Din of the Sepharadi communities of Queens, NY, and president of BD”Z Mekor Haim, of Queens.
Bisra Meats LLC is proud to offer many products that are not commonly available on the Kosher market. Aside from the variety of meats, we offer an unsurpassed diversity of cuts and organ meats from all of the animals that we process. All of these cuts are soaked, salted, and packaged in our Hackensack, NJ facility.
Most of these cuts were previously available in North America until about 30 years ago, when for economic reasons the Niqur (aka “treboring”, or porging) of certain parts of the back half of Kosher mammals fell out of favor with the Kosher meat packing industry. Some cuts from the back half are still largely available (e.g. skirt steaks, hanger steaks, oxtails, and liver), but those muscles that require more time to properly clean have all but disappeared, much to the dismay of the Kosher chef and consumer.
It is our mission and our goal to revive the forgotten variety of meats and cuts that are and always have been Kosher. It is our Hashqafah (philosophy) that every Kosher meat item has its purpose, its own culinary use, and deserves its full respect, and we strive to make all of the forgotten cuts (and at least some of the forgotten animals!) once more available to the Kosher consumer.
For more information regarding Niqur, e-mail us at rabbi@bisrakosher.com
About Us
“Bisra” is the ancient Aramaic word for “meat”. It is both the inspiration for our business and our mission statement to provide the best quality and widest variety of Kosher meats available. Meat in the traditional, original sense, and in all of its glory. From the common to the rare, our goal is to offer an unparalleled selection of cuts from both the front and the back half, nose to tail, the way it was always done.
Raising the bar in the Kosher meat industry, we invite you to try some of the unique cuts and meats that we provide, and it is our hope that making these cuts available here in the New York area – just as they are in Israel – will inspire a new generation of innovation and variety in the Kosher kitchen.
Check out our Beit Yosef, USDA choice beef and the variety of delicious cuts of goat and lamb, and be sure to check out our grass-fed, free-range sections for the utmost in quality and flavor of pastured, grass-finished meat. And don’t miss our meat.edu columns with information on cooking recommendations, methods of preparation, the ideal use of the variety of cuts, and the differences between the grass- and grain-finished meats.