Chinese Restaurants

Eating at a non-kosher Chinese restaurant can be difficult. Culturally they’re often not as forthcoming on clarifying what is or is not vegetarian. Often they’re mom and pop operations and possibly there’s a trust issue. but let’s say you get past all that and you go...

Cheeses

You mention a list of cheeses that are as sour cream or cottage cheese. What are they. And Tillamook cheese doesn’t use animal rennet but is produced on west coast has no kosher mark bit on east coast does. Is it kosher.

Eating Soups in non-kosher restaurants

It is easy to confirm that the soup is vegetarian. If it contains cheese, you need to specify that the cheese is one of the approved type cheese on the second sheet of the year-round kosher list and that the Renet is not from animals. In any restaurant, supermarket,...

Gelatin

Everyone asks about gelatin, how can you say that products are kosher if they contain gelatin?! The answer is that although today’s kashrut industry policies consider gelatin a problem since its usually made from meat, in truth and from Halacha it’s not a problem....

First Street Raisin Bran

Hi Rabbi, Is this kosher? Ings: Whole wheat, raisins, wheat bran, sugar, brown sugar syrup, salt, barley malt extract. Vitamins & Minerals: Potassium chloride, iron (ferric orthophosphate), vitamin A (palmitate), niacinamide, zing (zinc oxide), vitamin D...