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Every year, the number of questions we receive at the Operation Pesah Hot Line continues to grow and grow. Here is our updated FAQ for 2008/5768 for a quick reference. (Click here for the Pesah FAQ PDF 232 K) Don’t forget to read the KN Passover Edition for more information too. (Click here for Kosher Continue Reading »
Here are two healthy chametz products we just found on the grocer’s shelves. We thought that we should wait until after Pesach, but when we got to the proverbial article cupboard, it was bare, so you get to read this now, rather than later. NATURAL OVENS Organic Plus, 100% Whole Wheat Bread: Certified by the Continue Reading »
AOL did a feature on totally weird cereals. Here are some of the nominees: Moonstones Ralston marketed this cereal with the story that it was mined from the lunar surface by a regiment of magical beings called Moonbeams. Their commandant, Major Moon, led the work camp while obsessing over the moral decay their shiftless neighbors, Continue Reading »
The KOSHER NEXUS newsletter Pesach edition is now ready for you. It is available in both HTML and PDF formats. To see this year’s Passover KN go to: www.utj.org Scan down the page until you see the clickable……….
We were reading the Star-K’s 2008 PASSOVER DIRECTORY, and in an otherwise fairly good explanation of kitniyot, came upon the following sentence: “Nevertheless, most reputable Kashrus agencies in the United States and Israel do not permit the use of shemen kitniyos (oil made from kitniyot)in their products.(page 41).” Last year, an OU Rabbinic Field Rep, Continue Reading »
This story comes from the Monday, March 31 edition of Kosher Today. Our comments will appear at the end. Certified Kosher Tomatoes Now Available from Santa Sweets Plant City, Florida… by Eda Kram… To meet the growing demand among Jewish consumers and others looking for food they can trust, Santa Sweets announced that its Roma, Continue Reading »
For those of you who don’t have the patience to sit thru a full Seder: The Two-Minute Haggadah – A Passover service for the impatient. Opening prayers: Thanks, God, for creating wine. (Drink wine.) Thanks for creating produce. (Eat parsley.) Overview: Once we were slaves in Egypt. Now we’re free. That’s why we’re doing this. Continue Reading »
It’s that time of year again- all of the guides to making Passover are out there for your perusal. While most of what is out there is genuinely helpful, people need to constantly look at how sentences are written to determine if perhaps the guide has transformed some people”s custom into everyone’s standard. For example, Continue Reading »
The family of brews from St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. already includes Porter, Marzen, Pale Ale, Wheat, Honey Lager and Amber Bock — on top of the basic Michelob rolled out in 1896 and Michelob Light, which followed in 1978. Now, Anheuser-Busch appears poised to stock its Michelob cabinet even tighter. It has received label application Continue Reading »
The Jewish Diabetes Association Passover guide available in PDF format – English and Hebrew Jewish Diabetes Association 2004 Pesach Newsletter English Version (PDF) – 19 pages http://www.kashrut.com/Passover/JDA_Pesach2004English.pdf Hebrew Version (PDF) – 17 pages http://www.kashrut.com/Passover/JDA_Pesach2004Hebrew.pdf The guide covers both medical issues that arise for people with diabetes during Passover, as well as relevant issues of Jewish Continue Reading »
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