Yep. That's what I think for a long time. The Jewish "kosher" and islamic "halal" both describe what is allowed.

Yes I know - the exact translation is different. Kosher means something like "suitable" and kosher means "allowed". But it's the same concept of a range of allowed food. And when you like into this you realize that both don't allow pork, or products made of the blood of animals, it has to be slaughtered ritually. But more interesting is that both have physical rituals for men.

In fact "Semite people" are "descendant of sem", a biblic person. Semites are not only Jews but Arabs and phoenicians as well.