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Kosher Tidbits
The world's leading experts in Kosher — the OU Kosher Rabbinic Coordinators — share their knowledge of Kashrut, Halakha and Technology.
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Do All Foods Need Supervision? Do Any Maids Not Need Supervision?
Topics in Maintaining a Kosher Home - Part III: Do All Foods Need Supervision? Do Any Maids Not Need Supervision? Uncountable thousands of products have rabbinic supervision. Do all of…
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Parve Food with Non-Parve Utensils: What Could Go Right?
Topics in Maintaining a Kosher Home - Part II: Parve Food with Non-Parve Utensils: What Could GoRight? You cooked plain macaroni in a dairy pot and then served it with…
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Topics in Maintaining a Kosher Home - Part I: Utensils and Appliances
It's a given that milk and meat are kept apart in a kosher kitchen. There are even separate sets of silverware and plates! But do I need two stoves, two…
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Dairy Products: Solving the “Moo”steries
Take one cow. Add one bucket. Voila - dairy products! So whence all of the kashrus issues? Join Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, a Rabbinic Coordinator with OU Kashruth possessing vast expertise…
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Let My People Know: The OU Poskim answer questions all across the Shulchan Aruch
In this extra-special video, OU Kashruth’s Senior Poskim, Rav Yisroel Belsky, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, and Rav Hershel Schachter, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbenu Yitzchok Elchanon, provide practical…
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It widely accepted that the American domestic turkey is a kosher avian species. But what about the bird known as "the Eastern Wild turkey?" Join Rabbi Chaim Loike, a Rabbinic…
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The Baffling Enigma of the Bowfin Egg
Kosher animal? Drink its milk. Kosher bird? Eat its eggs. Kosher fish—now hold on! Join Rabbi Eli Gersten, the Rabbinic Coordinator in charge of regarding the halachic policies of OU…
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Rabbi Eli Gersten Rabbinic Coordinator, OU Kashruth Yum, yum, yum…I sure can’t wait to have beetle secretions on my candy! Sound bizarre? It’s been happening for a long time…Join Rabbi…
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Kosher Wine: I’ll Drink to That!
Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz Senior Rabbinic Coordinator, OU Kashruth Among the most sensitive areas in all of kashrus certification is wine manufacture. Even the initial extraction of juice from the grape…
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Cheese without Ease: A Kashrus Challenge Solved
Would you roast a kosher hamburger on a grill used for bacon cheeseburgers? Probably not! Imagine the challenges faced when a non-kosher cheese packager wants to package kosher cheese...Join Rabbi…
