Winter 2011

It would be wonderful if we all held ourselves to the same one high standard that Hashem set forth in His holy Torah and stopped pitting agencies against one another.

Readers share their thoughts about the last issue…

Dear OK, Is it permissible to get a knife sharpened by a professional knife-sharpener who also sharpens non-kosher knives?

In the 1930s and 1940s, Jewish life in New York presented a different kind of challenge. There were no kosher supermarkets, no restaurants and bakeries on every corner.

The root of the word eruv is “blend”. This concept describes what occurs whenever one makes an eruv. The eruv is a rabbinic method to allow an otherwise rabbinic restricted activity on Shabbos and Yom Tov.

Meet Chocolate, healthier then you thought

Camp L’man Achai
Celebrates Bris
Of 11 Year-Old Camper

Nawabi Murg Ka Tikka

Who’s Behind the OK
Dayan Yitzchak Teller
Executive Field Representative, Belgium

At the 2010 OK Mashgichim Conference

Looking Above Nature

Chanukah Sparks

11.2 million Americans regularly buy kosher food.