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Kashrus Awareness Project


Quail Tales & Egg Fails
After last week's introduction to the mesorah of birds, let's dive right in to some practical halachik applications. R' Chaim Loike -...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jul 69 min read
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Live Birds, Ancient Traditions
Let's take a trip back in time exploring the mesorah of birds. R' Chaim Loike - Rabbinic Coordinator at OU Kosher, made it his life's...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jun 2212 min read
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Hechsher In A Haystack?
Not Anymore! Introducing a revolutionary new app! A game changer for the industry of kashrus. Have you ever seen an unfamiliar kashrus...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jun 87 min read
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Be Like Leibel
Look At the Leibel Can you rely on a kosher symbol you see online? Sometimes you buy something online, but the product has a different...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
May 174 min read
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Shell-Shocked By Egg-flation
Is It Fowl Play? Have you been noticing more blood spots lately? Let’s get the real scoop what’s going on lately with the eggs together...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
May 38 min read
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Shelf Awareness
Post-Pesach Shopping Secrets Where can I buy chometz? Where is it problematic? Rabbi Yakov Teichman - Rabbinic Coordinator at the OK,...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Apr 1814 min read
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Don't Toss That Sauce
Just Yet... Many people won't sell chometz gamur. Does that mean i need to throw out a closed bottle of ketchup? Rabbi Yakov Teichman -...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Apr 65 min read
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Wok Smarter, Not Harder
Labeled In China Part 2 of our travels to China with Rabbi Binyamin Berkowitz - Kashrus Administrator at the KOF-K, focuses on the...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Mar 237 min read
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Made In China
Soy Many Questions Today we travel to China with Rabbi Binyamin Berkowitz - Kashrus Administrator at the KOF-K. Come along as we explore...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Mar 99 min read
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Don’t Cry Over Cholov Stam Milk
R’ Moshe Feinstein’s teshuva on Cholov Stam in America is by far one of the more famous of his. Yet, Rabbi Sholem Fishbane - Kashrus...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Feb 236 min read
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Kosher Can, Treife Plan?
What can be wrong with canned corn? All the ingredients are kosher. Let's listen to Rabbi Mordechai Stareshefsky a Rabbinic Coordinator...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Feb 95 min read
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Shellac On Snacks
What Are The Facts? That shiny coating that can be found on anything from jellybeans to fruit to hard-wood flooring. What is it made of?...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jan 268 min read
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Meat The Future
Lab-Grown vs. Nature Today's topic is very futuristic. Cultured meat, clean meat, lab-grown meat... Let's get a behind-the-scenes peek...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Jan 910 min read
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Everything But The Kitchen Sink
Ensuring a kosher kitchen. Let’s listen to Rav Shmuel Fuerst - Dayan of Agudas Yisroel of Illinois on the topic of keeping a kosher...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Dec 26, 20245 min read
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The Kashrus Control Room
Industrial Kashrus Systems Everyone loves to know what goes on behind the scenes. Today we take a tour of a typical factory with Rabbi...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Dec 12, 202415 min read
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A Rabbi, A Priest, And A Monk
Walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "What can I get you?" The rabbi replies, "Something kosher that wasn’t blessed by either of them!"...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Nov 28, 20249 min read
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Making Waves In The Office
What is the best setup for an office kitchen where all the employees don't keep kosher? How many microwaves do you need? These questions...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Nov 14, 20244 min read
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Lettuce Train to Strain
Aphids & Thrips Let’s join Rabbi Yisroel Langer Dayan at the cRc Beis Din and Rav of Congregation Bais Yitzchok as he gives us a tutorial...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Oct 31, 202411 min read
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New Year, Old Stock
5785 & Beyond Let’s join Rabbi Sholom Tendler - Kashrus Administrator at the STAR-K as he walks us through the sugya of yoshon and what...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Oct 6, 202415 min read
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The Missing Ingredient
Enough Quality Mashgichim Why is it so hard to find quality mashgichim in the food service industry? Let's listen to Rabbi Nosson Dubin -...
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Sep 19, 202415 min read
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