The Star K joined a collection of no-name hechsherim in creating a new criteria for gaining kashrut status. Brands must have an SFK name. As this photo shows, you can even get a hechsher on bacon donuts, you just need…
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Is it kosher? Uh, it’s not recommended
I found myself faced with an incredible challenge yesterday, it was a lull at work and the chef offered to pay for starbucks if I’d drive. I wish she would have said “lets get something at starbucks” and not offered…
We must stop Tav Hayosher and its evil left wing agenda!
It doesn’t take a genius to see the evil doings of leftist, supposedly orthodox Jews. They try to twist Torah and Halacha to support their mostly liberal agendas and rarely do anything to benefit the Torah observant community. Tav Hayosher…
The War on Parve: Finding the Morsels of Mass Distraction.
The War on Parve took an odd turn when it was revealed that Trader Joe’s did not change its chocolate chips last week. They are the same chips as they always were — namely the best parve chips you can…
Matzo available at McDonalds
Hat Tip to Dov Bear for finding this gem of a letter.
You know you’re from out of town if…
In the frum world, Out of Town or OOT for short is generally considered anyone who lives outside of the New York metro area. Not only is it a term to mark geographic location, it is generally used in the…
OU finally bans quinoa on Pesach
Quinoa has finally been banned to eat on Pesach, ending a debate that has lasted years and any need for vague statements on the grain that supposedly isn’t really a grain. It wasn’t expected that everyone in the OU would…
Keeping kosher style is a good thing
This picture was taken in the kitchen of Shar Zahav, the LGBTQ (gay) reform shul in San Francisco. Now before you start having a heart attack over this, think for a second as to how frum the Reform community…
Koshersextoys.net: Sex toy website keeps things frum and tznius
I have always wondered about frum people and sex toys, they must use them, but how can they buy them without looking at pritzus, never having gone to a sex toy store online or real life I can’t be sure,…
You say you’re conservative, but you’re pretty frum!
Like most folks who grew up in a frum environment I had very little exposure to other non-“orthodox” streams of Judaism. The entire extended family on my fathers side is frum all the way back, so I never had any…
First there was kosher water and then there was kosher dog food
I can’t remember the first time I had heard that some brands of bottled water had kosher symbols on them, but I can remember how crazy I thought that to be, probably just as crazy as folks who grew up…
Toyota is now considered kosher
Thank you Sarah for tagging me in this picture on Facebook – I thought I had seen it all, but I guess not. Oh and check out this hilarious comment someone left on facebook: A few years ago my son…
Kosher Toilet Bowl Cleaner
Someone on my backup facebook account sent me this picture he snapped of kosher toilet bowl cleaner and yes it makes one think how extreme the kashrus industry can go and if we should even trust an industry which doesn;t…
Traif Is Going Out of Style
A Guest Post By E. Fink Original post on my blog: Reform Judaism is Reforming Its Approach to Kashrus Ask most Orthodox Jews about Kashrus and Reform Judaism, you’ll most likely hear a snicker from the uninformed or a reference…
Bais Yaakov expels 9 girls for using non-kosher cell phones
BJJ is known as the top seminary, what this means is beyond me, but in the frum world, girls who go to the top seminaries get the top shidduchim. I always found seminary to be a little hypocritical considering the…
Upper West Side bars make it possible for orthodox Jews to go out on Friday night
For many orthodox Jews, the biggest drag is not being able to go out on Friday night like normal people. Lots of folks are seen as anti-social and weird for not going out with their non-Jewish or non-religious friends, it’s…
Is it kosher to celebrate Memorial Day?
I don’t recall ever hearing that Memorial Day wasn’t a kosher holiday. It was never considered one of the goyishe holidays and I think I recall that the Rabbis in yeshiva had nice things to say about it. No, they…
Should Moishe Houses have kosher kitchens?
Feedback on this article is very important – any comments, pro or against my arguments would be much appreciated. I have just been asked to join a friend in applying for a new Moishe House and he doesn’t keep kosher…
Stuff Secular Jews Like
I am not a secular Jew so undoubtedly this post was flawed from the start. I have many secular and non-religious Jewish friends and family. As the series of Stuff Jewish People like moves down the line, I am randomly…
Messing with BT’s on Pesach
Messing with BT’s has been a Frum Satire tradition for several years now. It doesn’t get old, because you can really have a messing with BT’s post for every holiday, Jewish event or regular daily life, I even had one…
Let Pesach madness begin
One of the reasons I love Pesach so much, besides for the hours of repeated divrei torah, constipation and uncle moishy carnivals are the absurd items that seem to come out every year. From kosher paper towels to kosher toilet…
Every Jewish Community has Politics
This is an old rant I wrote a long while back that still rings true today You may think your city is the worst, everyone always does, but let me tell you something from my personal experience, every city is…
Sephardic Kosher Pizza Racket says it isn’t in the sushi business
It looks like the kosher pizza shop will soon be a thing of the past, according to a recent poll of 100 New York area kosher pizza shops, which reveals that 74% are selling more sushi than pizza and have…
Tattoos are kosher
Punk Torah tells us why he thinks tattoos are kosher, of course if we use his reasoning – we might as well just rewrite the torah to fit with “modern” times.
Derech, schmerech. Pass the shrimps.
I heard there’s a lot of hullabaloo around here about why people “go off the derech”, and anger, and backgrounds, and all kinds of naarishkeit. Fine. Do what you’ve got to do. Now, normally, I’d stay out of this kind…