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Kashrus Awareness Project
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Dec 14, 20231 min read
Spiritual Spirits
Can Alcohol Be Avodah Zara? What’s the possible connection between alcohol and avodah zara? From Saké which plays an integral part in...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Dec 7, 20231 min read
Melted Gelt
Unwrapping the World of Chocolate Is it true that chocolate factories are sometimes kashered with molten chocolate? Is chocolate labeled...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Nov 30, 20231 min read
Kosher Menu
At A Non-Kosher Venue Have you ever been to a hotel for an event, or for a Shabbos program? Did you ever think of the details on how the...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Nov 23, 20231 min read
Holy Stoli
Kosher Cocktails Many cocktails use vodka or rum as their base ingredient. While these 2 alcoholic drinks are seemingly innocuous,...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Nov 16, 20231 min read
Blended Blessings
What’s The Main Ingredient? Let’s listen in to Rabbi Dovid Heber - Kashrus Administrator at Star-K as he walks us through the complicated...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Nov 9, 20231 min read
The Knead For A Mashgiach
Challah Edition. Ever wondered how things are done on a commercial scale? What’s the process of taking challah for an entire bakery? Does...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Nov 2, 20231 min read
For The Saké of Heaven
Saké, also referred to as Japanese rice wine, is an alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin made by fermenting rice that has been polished...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Oct 26, 20231 min read
Cryptic Crispix
What's the Proper Bracha? Let’s listen to Rabbi Dovid Heber - Kashrus Administrator at Star-K as he does a deep analysis on one of the...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Oct 19, 20231 min read
A Bowlful of Blessings:
Cereal Edition Although not directly related to kashrus, the kashrus agencies are the ones who can help us figure out exact ingredients...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Sep 21, 20231 min read
Exploring The Milky Way
Is Milchigs Better? One of the more common assumptions people mistakenly make, is that dairy products are easier to certify than meat....
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Sep 7, 20231 min read
Don’t Judge A Cook by Its Cover
Shopping in a kosher supermarket is not necessarily a stamp of approval on everything sold inside. A cookbook displaying raspberries does...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Aug 31, 20231 min read
Crawling Cuisine
The Uninvited Guests Why are there so many bugs in produce? Is this a new problem? How come there was never such issues 100 years ago? If...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Aug 24, 20231 min read
Symbol of Faith
Who Can I Trust? With 1,493 different Kashrus organizations all over the world, how can someone know who to trust? Let’s listen in to...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Aug 17, 20231 min read
Liquid Gold
Made In Mexico Whether you drink your tequila straight, or you do the whole ritual with the lime and salt, it’s worth finding out the...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Aug 10, 20231 min read
Vintage Whisky
With A Sherry On Top. A closer look at the complexities of all types of whiskies and bourbon with Rabbi Akiva Niehaus - Director of...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Aug 3, 20231 min read
Starbucks: Caffeine On Ice
Iced Tea. Frappuccino. Cold Brew. Ice Shaken Espresso. These are some of the items on Starbucks cold drinks menu. Let’s explore their...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jul 29, 20231 min read
Starbucks: There’s A Latte Options
Many options on the Starbucks hot drink menu. Mocha. Cappuccino. Hot Cocoa. Lattes. But are they kosher? R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jul 20, 20231 min read
Starbucks: Just A Black Coffee
What can be wrong with a plain black coffee? Apparently it isn’t that simple. R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jul 13, 20231 min read
Starbucks: An Introduction
A walkthrough of your local Starbucks store from a kashrus perspective with R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago...
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Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jul 6, 20231 min read
Kosher Carbonation
A Deep Dive into Hard Seltzer Seltzer with a twist - analyzed by Rabbi Akiva Niehaus - Director of Kashrus Operations at the cRc and the...
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