"keep kosher" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2018 February 1, Yogi Robkin, “Is It Easier To Keep Shabbat Than It Is To Keep Kosher?”, in The Forward:",
          "text": "In an amazing halachic twist, the Chofetz Chaim (in Sefer Machaneh Yisroel), writing in the late 19th century to Jewish soldiers in the army, notes that if a soldier has the choice to either go to an army base in which he can keep Shabbat but cannot keep kosher or go to a different army base in which he could keep kosher but not Shabbat, he should choose the base that allows for the observance of kashrut and not Shabbat!",
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