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Kashrus Awareness Project
Kashrus Awareness Staff
May 23, 20241 min read
America Runs On Dunkin’
But is it kosher? A walkthrough of your local Dunkin’ Donuts store from a kashrus perspective with R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
May 16, 20241 min read
Product Of Israel
מצוות התלויות בארץ It happens all the time that we hear about a specific store selling produce from Eretz Yisroel. Most of us stay away...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
May 9, 20241 min read
How To Kasher A Tank
If you’re wondering why a tank would need to be kashered, you probably aren’t thinking of a storage tank. Storage tanks are those massive...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Apr 17, 20241 min read
Potayto Potahto
It’s All A Matter Of Perspective Potatoes. A staple for Pesach in most homes. Let’s listen in to Rabbi Avraham Juravel - Rabbinic...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Apr 11, 20241 min read
Intentional Attention
Lishmah We Must Mention In Part 2 of our matzah baking episode, we listen to Rabbi Dovid Cohen - Administrative Rabbinical Coordinator at...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Apr 4, 20241 min read
Knead For Speed
Baking Matzah Let’s listen in to a fascinating conversation with Rabbi Dovid Cohen - Administrative Rabbinical Coordinator at the cRc as...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Mar 27, 20241 min read
Hidden Hazards
Chometz In Disguise. “What can be wrong with…?” That’s a question that is fairly common when it comes to kashrus. But when it comes to...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Mar 14, 20241 min read
Heavenly Hamantashen
The Forbidden Formula Back in the day, Hamantashen were much simpler. There were a few basic fillings, such as raspberry jam and poppy...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Mar 7, 20241 min read
Liquid Logistics
In It For The Long Haul Most commercial products nowadays have some sort of liquid in their ingredient panel. The complexities of...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Feb 29, 20241 min read
Hydroponic Quest
To Eradicate The Pests Hydroponics. Aeroponics. Vertical farming. These are just a few of the terms of recent innovations in the world of...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Feb 22, 20241 min read
Oven Overhaul
Shabbos Mode Redefined How has Shabbos mode been refined to avoid the newer shailos that have arisen? Let’s listen to Rabbi Tzvi Ortner -...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Feb 15, 20241 min read
Ki Eshmerah Shabbos
The Shabbos Keeper. Technology has come a long way since the refrigerator has been invented. Together with the advancements in technology...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Feb 8, 20241 min read
There’s An App For That
Some topics need to be revisited as technology evolves. Food delivery service apps such as Door-dash and Uber-eats definitely fall in...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Feb 1, 20241 min read
Vinegar Vignettes
Purity In A Sour World The key ingredient in all vinegars is wine. The key ingredient in most wines are grapes. For this reason many...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jan 25, 20241 min read
Yoshon Bytes
A Guide To Chodosh In The Digital Age For those who are makpid on eating only yoshon, it always involved a paperback booklet that listed...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jan 18, 20241 min read
Turning Up The Heat
Bishul Yisrael Sefaradi One of the biggest and often the most complicated chumros that sefardim are makpid on is the criteria to have...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jan 11, 20241 min read
Mouthwatering Mazza
Nusach Sefard Most kashrus agencies rely on the psak of the Rem”a for ashkenazim, because that is the base of their clientele. Let’s...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jan 4, 20241 min read
Olive Beis
Kashrus 101 Sometimes when we think of certain products we assume that they are very basic simple products, so what can go wrong with...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Dec 28, 20231 min read
Risky Whiskey
חמץ שעבר עליו הפסח Chometz? Who’s thinking about Chometz now? Pesach isn’t for another 4 months. For some Mashgichim like Rabbi Akiva...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Dec 21, 20231 min read
Breaking Bread
Croutons, Bagel & Pita Chips In this final segment of our Brachos series Rabbi Dovid Heber - Kashrus Administrator at Star-K breaks down...
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