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OU Promotes Kashrus Awareness, Achdus With 4 Varied Progs in 12 Days
Beginning March 27 through April 7, the Harry H. Beren ASK OU OUTREACH Kashrus Program visited four varied communities in the New York City metropolitan area. The Sephardic community of Brooklyn was visited on March 27 at Congregation Shaare Zion. The Passaic-Clifton Community Kollel was next on April 3. This was followed by a visit to the predominately Chassidic community of Boro Park at Agudas Yisroel Zichron Moshe on April 6. The final destination was to Lakewood, NJ on April 7 at Rav Shlomo Miller’s Bais Hora’ah Kollel, one of the most prestigious kollelim in North America.
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SmileyCookie.com Becomes OU Kosher
Beginning today, any Smiley Cookie ordered through http://www.SmileyCookie.com will be OU Kosher certified, according to Adam Golomb, director, e-Commerce, http://www.SmileyCookie.com.
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Sweet Breath Announces Recent OU Certification
TPR Holdings LLC, a New York City-based investor and operator in the consumer products industry, announced today that their newly acquired brand, Sweet Breath®, a leader in the breath freshener and oral care category, attained kosher certification through the Orthodox Union (OU).
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Honibe Pure Honey Now OU Kosher
Honibe™ - Pure Honey Joy™ Now Kosher Certified Through the Orthodox Union; Island Abbey Foods Attains Kosher Certification for Honibe™ Line of Products
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More Tootsie Roll Products (Including Pops) Are Now OU Kosher
Orthodox Union Approves Placement of Kosher Symbol on Iconic Tootsie Roll Industries Brands
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OU Kosher’s Rabbi Merzel to Present Seminar at October 26 Food and Beverage Show in Miami
Rabbi Mordechai Merzel, rabbinic coordinator for the Orthodox Union Kosher Division, will be a presenter at the 14th Americas Food and Beverage Show and Conference on Tuesday, October 26 from 3-4 p.m. at the World Trade Center Miami.
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Orthodox Union Approves Placement of Kosher Symbol on Old World Kosher Sausage
Old World Kosher Sausage today announced that it has been certified kosher by the Orthodox Union, the world’s largest kosher certification agency. The new variety of kosher chicken sausage bearing the OU symbol will be distributed nationwide beginning in the next few weeks
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Dear Rabbi: QUESTION: As an OU company, I have many customers who want their names printed on the label with no mention of the manufacturer (also known as private label products). We understand the need to sign a contract, to ensure that everyone is “on the same page” with the OU requirements for private labels, though the “legalese” of the contract makes it hard for us to understand what exactly we are obligating ourselves (and what our label company is obligating itself) to do to remain OU certified. Can you advise us in “plain talk” what exactly are the responsibilities of the manufacturer and the label company in the agreement? Specifically, what is this “parallel product” clause, and why is it needed?
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If it’s Monday, it Must Be Latvia (with Tuesday in Lithuania and Wednesday in Estonia)
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, the Baltic States, the frozen north, and particularly in Lithuania, home to great Jewish communities -- now these communities are gone and only memories remain. I share these memories -- my grandparents trod this ground 70 years ago.
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I have heard it said that running a successful kosher program is as easy as PIE: Products, Ingredients and Equipment. One must keep an updated schedule B (products) an updated schedule A (ingredients) and have a proper system for keeping track of the kosher/pareve status of equipment. I would like to add another interpretation to this wise adage. Running a successful kosher program is as easy as π (as in 3.14159…).
