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Products That Do Not Require Kosher Certification

Posted on January 13, 2023

Air Freshener Antibiotics Apple Sauce (Unflavored) Isopropyl Alcohol Aluminum Foil Aluminum Pans Aluminum Cupcake Holders Ammonia Baking Soda Baking Powder Beer (Unflavored) Bleach Bran (No Additives) Buckwheat (No Additives) Candles Carob Powder (Pure) Castor Oil Charcoal Briquets Cocoa (pure, with no additives) Coffee (pure, without flavoring) Coffee substitute from grains (pure grains only) Coffee Filters Continue Reading »

Media Discovers The New Realities Of Kosher

Posted on April 28, 2021

Media Discovers the New Realities of Kosher “Tuna tartare is the new gefilte fish,” Moshe Schonfeld, an owner of Ossie’s Fish, told the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal greeted the move of Crown-Heights based Izzy’s as the new trend in kosher restaurants towards smokehouses. The media seems to be aghast that kosher has drifted Continue Reading »

The Status Of Oreo Cookies

Posted on January 24, 2020

What is the status of Oreo Sandwich Cookies? Do they contain actual dairy ingredients? January 7, 2020 At the present time the following Oreo Sandwich Cookies do not contain dairy ingredients, although they are manufactured on dairy equipment: – Original Oreo Sandwich Cookies – Oreo Double Stuf Sandwich Cookies – Triple Double Oreo Sandwich Cookies Continue Reading »

Kosher and Theoretically Kosher

Posted on December 26, 2018

This article originally appeared in the March 11, 2004 edition of the Kosher Nexus. It still applies as much today as it did then. A magazine devoted to matters of kashrut recently offered the following advice:“Pouring boiling water over every single inch of your stainless steel sink would make it theoretically kosher for passover, but Continue Reading »

Is Your Bread Still Kosher? Arnold’s Bread Manufacturer Drops the OU

Posted on December 14, 2018

Special to the Kosher Nexus By Elizabeth Kratz | December 03, 2018 Bimbo Bakeries USA, which owns many of the nationally distributed bread and bun brands in America, including Arnold’s, Oroweat, Thomas’, Sara Lee, Stroehmann, Freihofer’s and Entenmann’s, have recently made decisions to drop the world’s largest kosher symbol, the OU (Orthodox Union) certification, from Continue Reading »

OU Orders Big Change In How Cattle Are Slaughtered

Posted on August 3, 2018

(JTA) — The Orthodox Union has told its approved beef purveyors in South America to stop using a controversial slaughter method. The O.U., which is the largest kosher certifying agency in the United States, sent a letter to its meat purveyors in June notifying them that it would no longer accept meat slaughtered using the Continue Reading »

Warning: Kosher Meat Recall

Posted on June 22, 2018

Agri Star Meat and Poultry LLC,  (Aaron’s Best) a Postville, Iowa establishment, is recalling approximately 3,592 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) beef pastrami products due to processing deviations that may have led to underprocessing of products and resulted in inadequate curing. If you bought some, bring it back to the store.  

Gefen Pasta Sauce: Run Away, Please Don’t Stay, Mama Luca Booboo Day

Posted on May 25, 2018

We confess to being lazy when it comes to pasta sauce .  Here in Israel, we should not be so lazy as good pasta sauce is hard to find.  Even so, we buy sauce in the local markets. Barilla- always good- is readily available here, but only in small jars which are expensive.  Before Pesach, Continue Reading »

An Alert Regarding Pringles Potato Crisps

Posted on May 23, 2018

Pringles is changing many of their OU pareve potato crisps to OU dairy. This may or may not be a result of a product reformulation. If a Pringles product is marked OUD and ingredients state ‘whey’ or ‘milk’, it is real dairy. If the ingredients don’t state ‘whey’ or ‘milk’, it is dairy equipment. Those Continue Reading »

Kosher Companies Look for Other Private Label Manufacturers

Posted on September 7, 2017

FROM KOSHER TODAY (AUGUST 21, 2017) Kosher Companies Scramble for Manufacturers after Manischewitz Closures Newark, NJ – It was perhaps one of the best kept secrets in the kosher food industry. The Manischewitz Co. was producing products from a significant number of competing brands, ranging from Matzoh to Tam Tam crackers. In fact, said one Continue Reading »