Rabbi Yacov Felder is the chairman of Rabbinical Vaad Hakashruth and bais din for COR, rabbi at Shomrei Shabbos and community leader. About Rabbi Yacov Felder – SSCM Rabbi Rabbi Yacov Shalom Felder, Shlita, was born in Toronto, the fifth child of the late Rabbi Gedalia Felder, zt’l and Rebbetzin Henna Aidel Felder, a’h. In …
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About Rabbi Sholom H. Adler – Rabbi Adler is COR’s Director of Industrial Kosher, Kashruth Administrator In Toronto Canada
Rabbi Shlomo Eliyahu Miller is a Rosh Kollel of the Kollel Avreichim Institute for Advanced Talmud Study in Toronto.
Rabbi White joined the Edmonton Kollel (map below) in 2005 after the Moose Jaw Community Kollel disbanded. Originally from Queens, New York (where hockey was followed during NBA commercials and before pre-season AA minor league baseball), he studied at Baltimores Ner Israel Rabbinical College where he received his Rabbinical ordination; and at Johns Hopkins, leading …
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The eKollel Project program brings you up-to-date Rabbinic resources. Now, you can ask your Kashrus questions and receive a response from a member of our staff, or rabbis. They will research and answer your questions – from the simplest to the most complex Jewish Laws. Feel free to ask, comment, and discuss our answers.
Question: Are all the symbols listed by you certified kosher to your standards?Are you affiliated with any better known kosher supervisory board?In other words, how would someone looking at your website know that you are reliable to their standards? Answer: Happy Chanukah,I assume you refer to https://www.ekollel.com/kosher-symbols/ Or it doesn’t matter for your question. Have …
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Rabbi Eliezer Wolff wrote this for a general Jewish Orthodox audience. The book is slightly dated but all the concepts are richly educational. The topics covered are concise but extensive enough to cover almost every problem or question you might come across. The book was translated into multiple languages including Russian. Translate this page to …
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This is not a Kosher recommended list. Some sugars listed here are 100% Chametz or Kitniyot. Explore more, or ask your Rabbi for a specific type of sugar. Sucrose Fructose High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) Agave Nectar Beet sugar Blackstrap molasses Brown sugar Buttered syrup Cane juice crystals Cane sugar Caramel Carob syrup Castor sugar Coconut …
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Question I live in Brooklyn., NY, which is has far the largest orthodox jewish population anywhere on this planet. My question to you is regarding an item with a not known-to-me Kashrus Supervision. I purchased the following item here in Flatbush (Brooklyn,NY) in a non-jewish owned grocery. Kindly reply if the ‘Hechsher‘ is at all …
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Are flax seeds kosher for Passover? Answer: Yes, they are kosher for Passover if they raw, and certainly not Chametz. What about flaxseed oil? The Star-k contains neither flax seeds nor linseed oil. The cRc Guide states explicitly that “Flax seeds are not kitniyot“. The OU lists linseed in the category “The following are not …
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