Today is April 19, 2025 / /
Today is April 19, 2025 / /
Here is a list of some of our favorite oranges. Thank goodness for the winter citrus season! We top the list with our favorite type: Blood orange: There are three types — Moro, Tarocco and Sanguinello — with a flavor that ranges from tart to semi-sweet depending on the type and season. Named for the Continue Reading »
IMAGINE, MILLIONS OF YEARS FROM now—long after humans have been wiped out by a wayward meteor or giant robot insurrection—a team of alien archaeologists sifting through our rubble in an attempt to piece together our mysterious history. Leafing through stray plastic bags and errant packing peanuts, they happen upon a surplus of something strange. Scattered around Continue Reading »
The Shulhan Aruch (Orah Haim 328:36) writes about a certain gum-like substance that people would chew as a remedy for dental problems, and he writes that it is forbidden to chew this substance on Shabbat. Since this is chewed as medicine, it violates the prohibition of Refu’a (healing) on Shabbat. However, the Shulhan Aruch adds, Continue Reading »
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 »
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 »
Some months back, we published a four part series on the state of commercial Kashruth today. The article was titled, “They Sold Us A Bill Of Goods.” We urge you to go re-read (or read for the first time) that series. We all have heard of how different Kashruth agencies have threatened to yank their Continue Reading »
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A TREFE PRODUCT, BUT IT COULD BE MADE IN A KOSHER STORE. BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID. Pickle and Dill Pizza In August 2018, Rhino’s Pizzeria in Rochester, New York, sent internet pizza fans into a frenzy with their unconventional creation. The polarizing pie began unassumingly enough, with a base Continue Reading »
The soft, dragon-like skin coating the cherimoya makes it look more like a fruit out of a fairy tale than one found along roadsides stretching down the western coast of South America. The thick-skinned fruit has such a soft, custardy heart, that rarely does it face more than a spoon or a few drops of Continue Reading »
What if a non-Jew cooked food which is subject to the prohibition of bishul akum, like rice, and then dries-out the food? In this case, is this food considered to be bishul akum and therefore prohibited? The Ben Ish Hai (Parashat Hukat, Shana Bet 17) relates that in Bagdad, non-Jews would cook bulgur until it Continue Reading »
Bastard oleaster is a fruit that doesn’t just have a name befitting a rock star, but looks the part as well. Its appearance resembles a small plum tomato covered in silver glitter. But that’s not where its personality ends; if you cut one open, you’ll find an elongated seed sporting a bizarre, striped pattern. The Continue Reading »
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