Glossary of Kosher Terms for Companies

Some non-English kosher terms that you may come across along with their explanations.

Category:  The Kosher Certification Process 

Colombia – Land of (Kosher) Opportunity

By Rabbi Aharon Brun-Kestler

A survey of the opportunities for Kosher in the country of Colombia.

Category:  The Kosher Market 

The Tasty Muffin: Starting off Your Day the OU Way

By Rabbi Yisroel Bendelstein

A discussion of the Kosher certification of muffins.

Category:  The Certification of Specific Industries 

Ask OU Participants Come From The Four Corners Of The Torah World

Category:  OU Programs 

Down In Old Kentucky, OU Certified Bluegrass Dairy Hits The Finish Line First At The Kentucky State

Category:  OU Programs 

All in a Day’s Work (Actually Many Days): Twin Rivers and Kosherization

By Rabbi Avrohom Stone

All in a Day’s Work (Actually, Many Days): Twin Rivers and OU Kosher Rabbis Make a Very Complex Kosherization a Reality

Category:  Kosherization 

It’s Anchovy Time

By Rabbi Chaim Goldberg

Category:  The Certification of Specific Industries 

OU Mesorah Conference On Mitzvot Of Eretz Yisrael Both Enlightens And Educates Audience Of Over 300

By Yehuda Gras

They came from Randallstown and Baltimore, MD; Edison and Highland Park, NJ; Monsey and Spring Valley, NY. They came from Lakewood, Teaneck, Elizabeth, Passaic and Jersey City, NJ. They came from Allentown, PA, Plainview and New Rochelle, NY and throughout the Metropolitan New York area. Speakers came from Eretz Yisrael via Boston and Stamford, CT. A crowd of over 300 gathered this past Sunday at Lander College for Men in Kew Gardens Hills, NY, for a fascinating eight-hour Harry H. Beren program on the Kedushat Ha’Aretz and Its Mitzvot, that is the mitzvot especially related to the land of Israel. The audience sat mesmerized by one powerful presentation and dynamic shiur after the other.

Category:  OU Programs 

Mission Not Impossible: The Kosher Jew in a Non-Kosher Milieu

By Rabbi Eliyahu W. Ferrell

It is well-known that when Robert A. Heinlein entitled his most famous novel, “Stranger in a Strange Land,” he adopted a phrase from the book of Exodus. Very often, the kosher consumer feels like a stranger in a strange land. Whether it’s an executive in a hotel during a business trip, or a Ba’al Teshuvah in his parents’ home, kosher consumers must sometimes navigate their way in a nonkosher kitchen. The purpose of this presentation is to offer some points of guidance to those faced with such challenges.

Category:  Kosherization 

OU Kosher Presents Webcast On Complexities Of Keeping A Kosher Kitchen

OU Kosher Presents Webcast On Complexities Of Keeping A Kosher Kitchen, With Rabbi Yisroel Belsky And Rabbi Hershel Schachter, May 29

Category:  Kosherization 

OU Kosher’s China Syndrome

By By Phyllis Koegel

OU Kosher's China Syndrome, or How I Traveled to Shanghai to Promote the World's Most Popular Kashrut Symbol And Experienced a Shabbat To Remember

Category:  The Kosher Market  The Kosher Certification Process 

Your Kosher Horouscope

By Rabbi Avrohom Stone

What bigger advantage could a food producer have than being able to know the future? While there is no crystal ball that can tell us what tomorrow will bring, it is possible to get an inkling of what lies in store by reading the signs. As a service to our companies, BTUS is pleased to present Your Kosher Horouscope – a look into what to expect from your OU Kosher program.

Category:  Kosherization  Misc. 

OU Kosher Kidz Video Reveals the Cold Facts about How to Make Kosher Ice Cream

All across North America this winter students and their teachers in Jewish schools have been entertained and enlightened by OU Kosher’s Kosher Kidz video, which takes them behind the scenes at an ice cream factory to learn what makes a product kosher and to see Jewish law put into practice in the manufacture of every kid’s’ favorite food.

Category:  The Certification of Specific Industries  Kosherization 

It’s Not Greek to Him

By Rabbi Aharon Brun-Kestler

It’s Not Greek to Him: An OU RFR Hits the Road to See the Nuances of Olive Production in an Ancient Land One of the great pleasures of working for the OU is the opportunity to occasionally step away from my desk and travel into the field. While there is always a sense of thrill and adventure involved in seeing the world, these are far from pleasure jaunts. Most importantly, these journeys provide critical insight into the real world workings of kosher. As the saying goes, “Hearing (or reading) is nothing like seeing!”

Category:  The Certification of Specific Industries  Kosherization 

Flying the Kosher Skies

Flying the Kosher Skies: OU Survey Determines that All Eight Major U.S. Carriers Contacted Provide Kosher Food on Board Kosher snacks -- such as potato chips, pretzels, cookies -- and in many cases, meals, are available on eight major United States airlines, and all the kosher-keeping traveler has to do to get them is to ask, the Orthodox Union Kosher Division announced today. OU Kosher revealed that its survey of eight major United States airlines has made it clear that all eight offer kosher meals and/or snacks on board and that guided by the OU, most of them are eager to expand on their offerings. No longer do those who keep kosher have to be hungry at 35,000 feet – or in many cases have to bring kosher food with them on board.

Category:  The Kosher Market