Eating out

Can you provide us with general guidelines on what can be ordered at a non-kosher restaurant? For example, soups, pasta, fish, salads, etc.? I know this is a vague question but general guidelines will help immensely.  Not everyone lives in NYC or LA with tons of...

Ordering Sushi 🍣

Rabbi, I’ve heard conflicting accounts of how one can order and consume sushi in a non-kasher restaurant. Could you please clarify how one can do so?

The story of the cheeses

Normally, cheese is under a rabbinical ruling (gezera) to require supervision, and it would not be sufficient to just know that there’s no non-kosher ingredients. Over twenty years ago, my father permitted many types of cheeses to be similar to yogurt and sour cream,...