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Category Archives: Kashrut
Coffee Bean Goes Non-Kosher
Coffee Bean blogs: For the past 57 years, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® has been a kosher offering/destination for Guests in the Los Angeles area. We have long been committed to providing food and beverage offers that delight and … Continue reading
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Elegant Event LLC Is No Longer Certified Kosher
Beth Jacob will have an explanation in a forthcoming holiday email.
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Altright.com: ‘Keeping Kosher Is Inhumane And Should Be Banned In White Countries’
Hatred blinds. There’s no cure for dumb. And AltRight.com is consistently dumb. From Altright.com (a lowbrow replacement for RadixJournal.com): The Jews have a strict dietary law called the Kashrut. It is an ancient rite based on stone-age thinking and science. … Continue reading
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Kosher Certification On LA Restaurants
A Mashgiach Temidi (only the Mashgiach will have keys to the restaurant, no entrance without the Mashgiach, unless you can lock up all the fridges separately) is the new community chumra (strictness of Jewish law) for kosher restaurants and it … Continue reading
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OK Kosher Takes Over Kehilla Kosher, Kosher Restaurants Worried
I hear: OK.org is the second largest national kosher organization. Wants to take the keys away from owners. Mandatory Mashgiach temidi$$$$. Will put the small guys out of business. OK doesn’t care! Well firstly, their base monthly fee is going … Continue reading
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Rabbinical Council of California v. Jakma, Inc. et al
The RCC has sued Schwartz’s Bakery (SchwartzBakeryLA.com) in U.S. District Court. The RCC alleges that Schwartz’s Bakery has fraudulently put RCC hashgacha (kosher) stickers on its product since 2013. “That’s a blatant fraud on the community,” says one macher. “This … Continue reading
Believe The RCC?
Y. emails: Luke, If you don’t expect us to believe the RCC’s narrative, whose should we believe? Rabbi Kligfield’s of Temple Beth Am who was quoted in this morning’s LA Times as implying that this is all about “power plays” … Continue reading
Statement from the Rabbinical Council of California on Doheny Meats
I am curious who believes the RCC here? Here is their statement: On Sunday March 24th, the RCC received video footage alleging kashrus violations at Doheny Kosher Meats, a store under its supervision. Within hours of receiving the information including … Continue reading
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What Took The RCC So Long To Crack Down On Doheny Kosher Meats?
The Rabbinical Council of California (RCC) has been warned for years about the unkosher shenanigans at Doheny GKosher Meats and the RCC has always deliberately chosen to do nothing about it, just as they chose for years to ignore the … Continue reading
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K Stands For Kosher
In his fourth lecture on R. Chaim Ozer Grodzinksi for Torah in Motion, history professor Marc B. Shapiro says: Now Kellogs has a K, under the Vaad of Boston. “Often you will have people tell you that when you find … Continue reading
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