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WE ADMIT- WE DON'T GET IT WHEN IT COMES TO STARBUCKS

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WE ADMIT- WE DON'T GET IT WHEN IT COMES TO STARBUCKS

Posted on March 16, 2007

Starbucks plans to open at least 40,000 more stores over the medium term, half of them outside the U.S., according to Spanish financial newspaper, Expansion. Starbucks Chief Executive Jim Donald told the paper that the chain is expanding at a rate of six shops and 350 new employees per day, reported Reuters. *********** We are Continue Reading »

COCA COLA THAT'S GOOD FOR YOUR SKIN?

Posted on March 15, 2007

Coke And L’Oreal Partner On New Health Beverage March 12, 2007 By Kenneth Hein NEW YORK — Coca-Cola and L’Oréal are partnering to create a new health-and-beauty beverage to launch in 2008, sources said. Currently called Lumaé, the nutraceutical drink was trademarked as a tea-based ready-to-drink beverage by Coca-Cola’s Beverage Partners Worldwide division. The drink, Continue Reading »

PASSOVER ALERT- SOUND THE SIRENS!

Posted on March 14, 2007

BENEFIBER for retail sale has been reformulated and is now made from chometz ingredients. The Benefiber listed in our 2007 Passover Guide Addendum (page 139) only applies to the institutional chometz-free Resource Benefiber. Our best wishes for a Chag Kosher V’Sameach.

PASSOVER FAQ FOR 2007

Posted on March 13, 2007

THE NEW, UPDATED FOR 5772, PASSOVER FAQ IS HERE Every year, the number of questions we receive at the Operation Pesah Hot Line continues to grow and grow. We are most pleased to note this increase as it points to a heightened level of awareness and observance of the holiday. Included in this special edition Continue Reading »

FINALLY- KOSHER HOT FOOD IN A VENDING MACHINE

Posted on March 9, 2007

Eat and run: Kosher vending to create new options By Josh Lipowsky | Published 03/1/2007 | Community | Josh Lipowsky Alan Cohnen was hungry. Last year, he sat in an airport lounge munching on a bag of chips from a vending machine. Around him, people enjoyed pizza, hamburgers, and other noshes unavailable to Cohnen because Continue Reading »

LOVE THAT HEINIE

Posted on March 7, 2007

The First Successful Upscale Light Beer By Jeff Ostrowski Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Monday, March 05, 2007 Two years ago, Bob Posten discovered something beer marketers had overlooked: Affluent young professionals wanted an upscale light beer and would pay a premium for it, so long as the brew projected a debonair image and didn’t Continue Reading »

HUMMUS IS A HUMDINGER!

Posted on March 6, 2007

Hummus far from ho-hum Surprise ingredient makes for sublime homemade hummus MICHELE KAYAL For The Associated Press February 28, 2007 When a recent snowstorm threatened, David Durcsak didn’t take chances. He stocked up on hummus. “I bought some yesterday but I’m buying a second to keep on hand,” he said while shopping in the deli Continue Reading »

THE KOSHUS NEXOR

Posted on March 5, 2007

Citing the ultimate in kashruth scandals, Kosher This magazine ran a cover story relating that Avraham Avinu ate meat and dairy together and that Moshe Rabbeinu ate treif! “How could it be that such Gedolim could err so egregiously?” Kosher This magazine called it the worst kashruth scandal in over three millenia and called on Continue Reading »

IT'S FINALLY HERE!

Posted on March 4, 2007

The Kosher Nexus newsletter is finally available on line. It took us a bit of a while to iron out some problems, but we finally did it! Ok, truth be told, it was UTJ Cyber Rebbe Alex Herrera who got it going. You can find the Nexus on line at www.utj.org Please note: The Kosher Continue Reading »

RABBI LIEBERMAN YAHRZEIT LECTURE

Posted on February 27, 2007

24th Yahrzeit of Rabbi Professor Saul Lieberman, z”l Date – Wednesday, 9 Nisan, March 28, 6:30 p.m. Speaker: Dr. Lawrence Schiffman, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU Topic: “Saul Lieberman on the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Reappraisal” Place: Congregation Ramath Orah, 550 West 110th Street, Manhattan (There is a parking garage across the Continue Reading »