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Spring 2011

  • Dear Reader

    Dear Reader

    What are the responsibilities of the certifying agency? Is the kashrus agency only responsible for the kashrus of the food, or is it the agency’s responsibility to ensure a kosher atmosphere as well?

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  • Share Your Spirit

    Share Your Spirit

    Readers share their thoughts about the last issue…

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  • Consumer Questions

    Consumer Questions

    Dear OK, Do I have to wait until we take challah from the new dough in order to mix it in, or can I mix it in before I take challah?

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  • Healthy Spirit

    Healthy Spirit

    Potatoes, with Benefits

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  • Keeping Kosher in… China

    Keeping Kosher in… China

    Written by Rebbetzin Dini Freundlich

    What makes a young woman agree to move to a place where there is no shul, no school, no mikvah, kashrus is a struggle, and the language is totally different from any she has ever heard or seen?

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  • The Kosher Wine Revolution

    The Kosher Wine Revolution

    Written by Rabbi Ahron Haskel

    There is a revolution taking place in the Israeli wine industry—a kosher revolution. Suddenly, shopping for kosher wines has become that much more complicated…how can you decide between such a variety of high-quality, top-notch wines?

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  • After-Pesach Recipe

    After-Pesach Recipe

    Superb Schlissel (Key) Challah

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  • The Laws of Kosher Tzitzis

    The Laws of Kosher Tzitzis

    Written by Rabbi Yitzchak Gornish

    In a rather poignant section of the Haggadah, we read about Rabbi Elazar ben Azarya and his struggle to find a source requiring one to recite the third paragraph of Shema in the evening. It is therefore appropriate to review some of the basic laws of tzitzis during the Pesach season, as tzitzis appear to be intrinsically related to our Exodus from Egypt.

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  • Rabbi Berel Levy ob”m

    Rabbi Berel Levy ob”m

    Written by Rabbi Don Yoel Levy OB"M

    Rabbi Berel Levy, ob”m, was the Rav HaMachshir of OK Kosher Certification (then known as Organized Kashrus Laboratories) for over twenty years. He singlehandedly raised the OK from a small kosher certification agency to a global agency impacting and shaping kashrus worldwide.

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  • Meet our Staff

    Meet our Staff

    Who’s Behind the OK
    Rabbi Yakov Perlov

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  • Chassidic Insights

    Chassidic Insights

    The Splitting of the Sea

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  • Soul Nutrition

    Soul Nutrition

    Kabbalah of the Kaira (Seder Plate)

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  • Kosher by the Numbers

    Kosher by the Numbers

    Israeli wine exports grew by $18,000,000 in the first 10 months of 2010.

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