Kosher 43 articles

Steve Savitsky talks with Rabbi Eli Gersten, Rabbinic Coordinator of OU Kosher, about its inner workings and rigorous standards of kashrut.

July 2011 By Rabbi Chaim Goldberg OU Rabbinic Coordinator To submit questions for future columns, please send them to {encode=”KosherQ@ou.org” title=”KosherQ@ou.org”}, or call the Kosher Consumer Hotline, at 212-613-8241. “Holy Fries”...

A recent Jewish Week article, “A Woman’s Place is in the (Kosher) Kitchen” by Amy Spiro caught plenty of attention. When Donyel Meese, a pre-med undergraduate and NCSY alumnus, was offered...

Rabbi David Bistricer is an OU Kosher Rabbinic Coordinator. To submit questions for future columns, please send them to KosherQ@ou.org, or call the Kosher Consumer Hotline, at 212-613-8241. Q: Are there...

The lady handing out samples at Costco knows it by the way my mom inspects the package. “It is kosher,” she says, as she indicates the OU on the front of...

“It’s just a candy bar,” she says mockingly. “Who cares if it doesn’t have a hechscher? Just eat it.” She dangles the offending chocolate in front of me, smirking. I stumble...

“Say Cheese” Q: Why do only a few brands of “hard” cheese, such as cheddar, mozzarella and parmesan, bear well-known kosher symbols? After all, the ingredients in almost all cheeses seem...

I’m a coffee fanatic! Okay, I admit it! According to Wikipedia, a fanatic is a belief or a behavior involving uncritical zeal, or to quote Winston Churchill, “a fanatic is one...

As he was constructing the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, King Solomon labored to establish extensive and far-reaching trade routes to bring the very best for the service of God. A series...

Please don’t tell anyone, but I’m a chocoholic. My father (of blessed memory) used to bribe me with chocolate to get me to go to bed, clean my room, do my...