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Category Archives: Kashrut
Pico Kosher Deli – Four Stars Out Of Five
Joe emails: The best way to tell how good a Kosher restaurant is to count how many non-Orthodox patrons it has. Orthodox people do not know good food and think that anything they do not have to clean up their … Continue reading
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Tagged corn beef, deli sandwiches, kosher deli, lashon hara, lunch crowd, steak entrees
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What Level Of Vacation Benefits Are ‘Just’?
Rav Yitzhock Adlerstein blogs: My main concern was the damage to kashrus that would result from people coming to believe that the details of the law were far less important than the ethical intent of the law. Traditional Jews have … Continue reading
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Tagged christian polemics, hechsher, laws of kashrus, legal compliance, mesorah, vacation benefits
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Righteous Kashrut
By Yitzchok Adlerstein and Michael Broyde The Jewish community has been roiled by the continuing charges against kosher meat giant Agriprocessors. Kosher consumers are angry that practices which are supposed to bring credit to Jewish tradition are instead sullying its … Continue reading
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Tagged biblical prophets, jewish concerns, kosher consumers, legal norms, orthodox jewish congregations, union of orthodox jewish congregations
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What Does ‘Glatt Kosher’ Mean?
Marc Shapiro writes in the Aug. 18, 2008 issue of the Forward: The very meaning of glatt kosher in the United States is not what most people think, namely, meat that has no adhesions. While this is indeed the original … Continue reading
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Tagged beit yosef, generic phrase, Hasidim, marc shapiro, mean marc, Sephardim
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