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UK 'Apprentice' Contestant: The Hunt for Kosher Chicken.

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From: Israel Faxx
Date: 20080516
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By Ha'aretz

A task to find a kosher chicken in Marrakech (Morocco) caused a stir on the BBC's version of The Apprentice this week, when the self-declared Jewish contestant headed straight for a halal butcher to procure the poultry.

The luckless Michael Sophocles came in for a blasting from the competition's businessman overlord, Sir Alan Sugar, himself Jewish, who questioned Sophocles' religious background after the contestant said that he did not know the meaning of the word "l'chaim."

"In your CV, what's the first thing you wrote on it?" Sugar demanded of ...

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