(Press of Atlantic City) The city’s school district will begin serving halal food five days a week at several elementary schools and the high school, Superintendent Barry Caldwell said Tuesday.
“We’ve heard the community,” Caldwell said at the start of Tuesday’s regular school board meeting.
Menus will begin this week, he said.
“Halal” is an Arabic word that often refers to food and other products that are permissible for use or consumption under Islam. Examples of foods not considered halal are pork and lard. The rollout of the new menus, both hot and cold, at district schools has been an effort for the past three years by several board members but was spearheaded by Muslim board member Farook Hossain.
