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Tishrei 5780

  • Dear Reader – Tishrei 5780

    Dear Reader – Tishrei 5780

    Written by Rabbi Chaim Fogelman

    Dear Reader,
    As I sit at my desk and reflect on the past year, I cannot help but
    feel like it has gone by so quickly, while at the same time, it was one of
    the slowest moving years of my life.

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  • Share Your Spirit – Tishrei 5780

    Share Your Spirit – Tishrei 5780

    Written by Estee Butman

    Have you tried 88 Acres products? 88 Acres products are ~ certified and totally delicious. We asked the owner what sets them apart. 

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  • Question for the <i class='icon-OK'>OK</i> – Tishrei 5780

    Question for the OK – Tishrei 5780

    Written by Estee Butman

    Why do I occasionally see a specific product where some packages have the OK symbol and some do not?

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  • Healthy Spirit: The Power of Fish

    Healthy Spirit: The Power of Fish

    Written by Estee Butman

    Many Jews have the custom to put the head of a fish on their Rosh Hashanah table. It’s a symbol to be like the head, and not the tail, to think before acting, and to be the best version of ourselves. Not only is fish a symbolic food on the table, but it can be a very healthy component of our seudos during a month of heavy eating.

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  • Keeping Kosher In…The Outback

    Keeping Kosher In…The Outback

    Written by Leibel Baumgarten

    One of the core missions of Chabad of RARA is to assist Jews in rural areas in keeping kosher themselves, which can be a daunting challenge.

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  • A Closer Look – Gelatin

    A Closer Look – Gelatin

    Written by Rabbi Sholom Ber Hendel

    In order for the gelatin to be kosher certified, it must be made from kosher animals that underwent kosher slaughter and processing, or from kosher fish.

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  • Your Kosher Kitchen – Hot Plates

    Your Kosher Kitchen – Hot Plates

    Written by Rabbi Levi Schapiro

    According to some Poskim, if the above requirements are met, one may place completely cooked dry foods on a hot plate on Shabbos. However, any food that is moist and will drip – even if the food is only moist inside,
    but the moisture will drip to the outside when heated – may not be placed on a hot plate on Shabbos.

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  • Sweeten Your Harvest Celebration with Hawai’i Harvest Honey

    Sweeten Your Harvest Celebration with Hawai’i Harvest Honey

    Written by Estee Butman

    This year add the taste of Hawaii to your harvest celebration with Hawai’i Harvest Honey’s raw artisanal honeys. All are Kosher and USDA certified organic and never heated, so the honey’s beneficial enzymes, pollens and propolis come to you exactly as the bees intended.

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  • Gingered Apple Pinwheel Tarts

    Gingered Apple Pinwheel Tarts

    Written by Estee Butman

    Irresistible combination of flaky puff pastry and apples poached in a slightly caramelized buttery ginger honey syrup SERVES 4 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed Preheat oven to 425 degrees 3 Gala apples ½ cup Hawai’i Harvest Bubba Baba Blue Ginger blended with Hawaiian …

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  • Stories From the Road With Rabbi Yitzchak Hanoka, Tri-State Rabbinic Coordinator

    Stories From the Road With Rabbi Yitzchak Hanoka, Tri-State Rabbinic Coordinator

    Written by Estee Butman

    From this true story you learn the lesson of–and power of—never giving up. You keep trying. Our job is to go out and do, the rest is up to Hashem!

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  • Wine Processing

    Wine Processing

    Written by Rabbi Benzion Chanowitz

    The Gemara asks, “How do we know that wine is prohibited?” The rabbis then explain that the source for this prohibition is the posuk in Devarim 32:38 that compares wine offerings to idol sacrifices. 

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  • Who’s Behind the <i class='icon-OK'>OK</i> – Rabbi Sholom Kesselman

    Who’s Behind the OK – Rabbi Sholom Kesselman

    Written by Estee Butman

    “Rabbi Kesselman is a talented individual who is well versed in Halacha and its practical implications. Managing the foodservice department in Los Angeles is no easy task and Reb Sholom is magnificently upholding (and improving) the highest level of kashrus. A Talmid Chochom and a mentch, we are lucky to have a man of his stature on the OK team.” – Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, Kashrus Administrator

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  • Chassidic Insights: One Long Day

    Chassidic Insights: One Long Day

    Written by Estee Butman

    Commenting on that fact, the Talmud explains that the repetition of the expression “Gd saw that it was good” refers to two types of good: Tov lashamayim and Tov labrios — good to heavens (i.e., in matters between man and Gd) and good to the creations (good in matters between man and man).

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  • Soul Nutrition – Chanukah 5780

    Soul Nutrition – Chanukah 5780

    Written by Rabbi Chaim Fogelman

    מחק ברחמיך הרבים שטרי חובותינו… On the Yomim Noraim we ask Hashem, in His mercy, to erase all of our spiritual debts. The Roshei Teivos of the tefillah spell out the word בשמחה , because it is only through joy that the decrees …

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Tishrei 5780

Cover Of "Kosher Spirit: Tishrei 5780" With Photograph Of Fruits And The OK Kosher Logo Written In Honey

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Dear Reader – Tishrei 5780

Share Your Spirit – Tishrei 5780

Question for the OK – Tishrei 5780

Healthy Spirit: The Power of Fish

Keeping Kosher In…The Outback

A Closer Look – Gelatin

Your Kosher Kitchen – Hot Plates

Sweeten Your Harvest Celebration with Hawai’i Harvest Honey

Gingered Apple Pinwheel Tarts

Stories From the Road With Rabbi Yitzchak Hanoka, Tri-State Rabbinic Coordinator

Wine Processing

Who’s Behind the OK – Rabbi Sholom Kesselman

Chassidic Insights: One Long Day

Soul Nutrition – Chanukah 5780

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