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Winter 2010

  • Dear reader

    Dear reader

    Written by Rabbi Chaim Fogelman

    As the month of Kislev is upon us, I can’t help but think about the horrific atrocities that took place in Mumbai and realize that a year has already passed. The kedoshim that were murdered in the Chabad House, solely because they were Jewish

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  • Share Your Spirit

    Share Your Spirit

    Readers share their thoughts about the last issue…

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  • Consumer Question

    Consumer Question

    Dear OK,
    Why are all or most parts of a cow kosher for consumption in Israel, whereas the Jews in America are forbidden to eat anything behind a cow’s waist? (For example, beef tenderloin, which is used for fillet mignon steaks or kabobs.)

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  • Cheese De-Light

    Cheese De-Light

    Written by Rabbi Yitzchak Gornish

    It is a Jewish custom to partake of cheese during the festival of Chanukah. This is to commemorate the Jewish heroine, Yehudis, who during the Syrian-Greek occupation of Eretz Yisroel plied a highly ranked enemy officer with rich cheese and wine and during the tyrant’s drunken stupor, she decapitated this hapless official. After losing their leader, the enemy troops fled in panic.

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  • 8 uses for fire

    8 uses for fire

    Fire, more spiritual than physical, provides light and warmth and is compared to the
    soul (Ki ner Hashem nishmas adam). Jews use fire to bring in Shabbos and Yom Tov, for Havdallah
    when we part with Shabbos, and to light our Chanukah menorahs

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  • Kosher Pickle

    Kosher Pickle

    Written by David Brown

    How do you teach the basics of kashrus in a captivating, relevant way? This is a question that the OK education department deals with on a regular basis and was the catalyst for our sponsorship and support of a unique, stimulating kosher education program—The Traveling Kosher Pickle Factory.

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  • Healthy Spirit

    Healthy Spirit

    Traditional Chanukah Foods.
    Potatoes, Olive Oil and Cheese

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  • Chanukah Recipe

    Chanukah Recipe

    Zucchini Parmesan Latkes (Dairy)

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  • Lets Get Cooking

    Lets Get Cooking

    The Kosher Spirit is excited to showcase Let’s Get Cookin’ a new and creative recipe organizer developed by Tzivi Eichenholz and Chavi Wilner, two “balabustas”

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  • <i class='icon-OK'>OK</i> in action

    OK in action

    at the 11th Annual
    OK Mashgichim Conference

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  • Meet our staff

    Meet our staff

    Who’s Behind the OK, Interview with
    Rabbi Yitzchak Gornish

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  • Chanukah Victory of the Soul

    Chanukah Victory of the Soul

    Written by Dina Fraenkel

    The Talmud asks in Tractate Shabbos, “What is Chanukah?” According to Rashi, the real question is, “What is the miracle that we celebrate on Chanukah?

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  • Soul Nutrition

    Soul Nutrition

    The light that Hashem created on the 1st day of creation was very special and different from the light that you and I utilize every day. The light that we know was created on the 4th day when Hashem created the sun, moon and stars.

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  • Kosher by the Numbers

    Kosher by the Numbers

    Nearly 10,000 food plants in the US produce kosher items.

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