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Sous-vide Bath: A Kosher Path?
Continuing the technology series, we are moving on to the sous-vide and the halachik challenges that arise with it. Rabbi Dovid Cohen - Administrative Rabbinical Coordinator at the cRc, fills us in on potential kashrus issues with a sous-vide. https://askcrc.org/item/Keilim/968499 R’ Yitzchok Hisiger: Hello everyone and welcome back to Let's Talk Kashrus presented by the Chicago Rabbinical Council. Today I am joined by Rabbi David Cohen, administrative rabbinical coordinat
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Apr 208 min read
Glass Half Kashered
Today's interview focuses on a problem that many people face when kashering for Pesach. New-age technology = new-age problems. How do you kasher glass stovetops? Can they be kashered at all? What about induction stovetops? Let's hear what Rabbi Dovid Cohen - Administrative Rabbinical Coordinator at the cRc has to say on this timely topic. R’ Yitzchok Hisiger: Hello everyone and welcome back to Let's Talk Kashrus presented by the Chicago Rabbinical Council. Today I am privil
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Mar 238 min read
L.T.K. Q&A: Shabbos Shailos
Part 3 of our Q&A series with Rav Shmuel Fuerst Dayan of Agudas Yisroel of Illinois to answer some of the recent questions that came in to us at Let's Talk Kashrus. This week's Q&A focuses on some hilchos shabbos issues. R’ Yitzchok Hisiger: Hello everyone and welcome back to Let’s Talk Kashrus , presented by the Kashrus Awareness Project in conjunction with the Chicago Rabbinical Council. Today I am honored to be joined by Rav Shmuel Fuerst, Dayan of Agudath Yisrael of
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Mar 85 min read
Shavuos Articles
Halls of Torah and Tefillah... and Kashrus
“The kiddush will be held in Rabbi Cohen’s shul, so I’m sure everything is fine.” Although Rabbi Cohen is the Mara d’Asra, there is a good chance he is uninvolved in the kashrus of the simchah hall associated with the shul. For several years, Rabbi Sholem Yehudah Fishbane, executive director of Association of Kashrus Organizations (AKO) and kashrus administrator for Chicago Rabbinical Council (cRc), has been working with his associates to develop a protocol for shuls to ensur
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Aug 27, 20259 min read
Keeping Camp Kitchens Kosher - Preparing a Plan
Over 1,000 meals are served daily in the average Jewish summer camp. For two months, breakfast, lunch and supper are cooked, baked and doled out for campers, staff and their families. The menu includes milchigs, fleishigs and pareve. “Even the busiest restaurant or caterer rarely faces an operation as complex as running a summer camp,” says Rabbi Sholom Chaim Tendler of Star-K. “The sheer volume of food, with changes from a dairy breakfast to a meat supper, is daunting. Keepi
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Aug 27, 202512 min read
Educating Yeshivos and Bais Yaakovs - Keeping the Kitchens Kosher
Keeping the Kitchens Kosher “It was learned in the Beis Medrash of Rabi Yishmael: Sin obstructs the heart of man, as it is written, ‘V’lo sitamu bahem, v’nitmeisem bam — Do not defile yourself with them lest you become defiled through them’ (Vayikra 11:43). Do not read it ‘v’nitmeisem,’ but rather [read it] ‘v’nitamtem — and you will become obstructed’” (Yoma 39a). The Ramban and others explain that this is mainly referring to the prohibition of eating forbidden foods, which
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Aug 27, 202510 min read
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Sous-vide Bath: A Kosher Path?
Continuing the technology series, we are moving on to the sous-vide and the halachik challenges that arise with it. Rabbi Dovid Cohen - Administrative Rabbinical Coordinator at the cRc, fills us in on potential kashrus issues with a sous-vide. https://askcrc.org/item/Keilim/968499 R’ Yitzchok Hisiger: Hello everyone and welcome back to Let's Talk Kashrus presented by the Chicago Rabbinical Council. Today I am joined by Rabbi David Cohen, administrative rabbinical coordinat
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Apr 20
Glass Half Kashered
Today's interview focuses on a problem that many people face when kashering for Pesach. New-age technology = new-age problems. How do you kasher glass stovetops? Can they be kashered at all? What about induction stovetops? Let's hear what Rabbi Dovid Cohen - Administrative Rabbinical Coordinator at the cRc has to say on this timely topic. R’ Yitzchok Hisiger: Hello everyone and welcome back to Let's Talk Kashrus presented by the Chicago Rabbinical Council. Today I am privil
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Mar 23
L.T.K. Q&A: Shabbos Shailos
Part 3 of our Q&A series with Rav Shmuel Fuerst Dayan of Agudas Yisroel of Illinois to answer some of the recent questions that came in to us at Let's Talk Kashrus. This week's Q&A focuses on some hilchos shabbos issues. R’ Yitzchok Hisiger: Hello everyone and welcome back to Let’s Talk Kashrus , presented by the Kashrus Awareness Project in conjunction with the Chicago Rabbinical Council. Today I am honored to be joined by Rav Shmuel Fuerst, Dayan of Agudath Yisrael of
Kashrus Awareness Staff
Mar 8
Kashrus Resources
Following is a growing list of online resources available to kosher consumers. To add to the list l'zikui Harabim, please email: info@kashrusawareness.com
Shelf Awareness
Post-Pesach Shopping Secrets Where can I buy chometz? Where is it problematic? Rabbi Yakov Teichman - Rabbinic Coordinator at the OK,...
Apr 18, 2025
Kashrus Apps
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Apr 10, 2022
Kashrus Alerts
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Apr 10, 2022
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