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Labels with two or even three hechshers are commonplace but seven are unusual and must surely be a record for the most hechshers on a food label. <br>&nbsp;<br> Hechshers listed from right to left (or hover over a hechsher and then click) <ul type="1"> <li>KAJ - Kehilla Adat Yeshurun, Washington Heights, U.S.A.</li> <li>London Beth Din, U.K.</li> <li>Skvere - New Square Kashrus Council, NY, U.S.A.</li> <li>Hevel Ezer, Israel</li> <li>Badatz Shomron, Israel</li> <li>Beit Midrash Gavoha for Halacha in Agricultural Settlements (Rabbi Yosef Efrati), Israel</li> <li>Machzekei Hadas, Israel (Belz)</li> </ul></td> <td width="320" align="center"><img src="alei_katif-x320.jpg" border="0" usemap="#aleikatif" /> <img src="alei-idx.jpg" border="0"> <map name="aleikatif"> <!--1--><area shape="rect" coords="250,265,280,290" onMouseOver="writeText()" href="../hechshers/201.htm" target="_blank" alt="KAJ - Kehilla Adat Yeshurun, Washington Heights, U.S.A." /> <!--2--><area shape="rect" coords="240,305,265,340" onMouseOver="writeText()" href="../hechshers/374.htm" target="_blank" alt="London Beth Din KLBD" /> <!--3--><area shape="rect" coords="195,275,225,310" onMouseOver="writeText()" href="../hechshers/503.htm" target="_blank" alt="Skvere - New Square Kashrus Council" /> <!--4--><area shape="rect" coords="145,280,175,305" onMouseOver="writeText()" href="../hechshers/83.htm" target="_blank" alt="Hevel Ezer" /> <!--5--><area shape="rect" coords=" 90,275,120,300" onMouseOver="writeText()" href="../hechshers/417.htm" target="_blank" alt="Badatz She'eris Yisroel" /> <!--6--><area shape="rect" coords=" 50,305, 90,325" onMouseOver="writeText()" href="../hechshers/756.htm" target="_blank" alt="Beit Midrash Gavoha for Halacha in Agricultural Settlements (Rabbi Yosef Efrati)" /> <!--7--><area shape="rect" coords=" 40,270, 65,290" onMouseOver="writeText()" href="../hechshers/250.htm" target="_blank" alt="Machzekei Hadas, Israel (Belz)" /> </map> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr><!-- ============================================================= --> <TR><TD><A NAME="DAGAN"></A><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"><P> <table border="0" width="192" align="right" cellspacing="6"> <tr> <td width="96" align="center" valign="top"><font class="8point">SACHET FRONT</font><br><img src="dagan-1-x96.jpg"></td> <td width="96" align="center" valign="top"><font class="8point">SACHET REAR</font><br><img src="dagan-2-x96.jpg"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><font class="8point">HECHSHERS ON SACHET REAR</font><br><img src="dagan-3-x240.jpg"></td> </tr> </tr></table> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Upside Down</FONT> <br>&nbsp;<br> Dagan&#153; Instant Dry Yeast helps to make excellent home-baked bread but don't try to read the two hechshers. On the left is the hechsher of <a href="../hechshers/28.htm">Rabbi Moshe Y.L. Landau</a>, Bnei Brak. On the right, and upside down, is that of <a href="../hechshers/537.htm">Rabbi G.M. Garelik</a>, Milan. <br>&nbsp;<br> <font class="9point">TRIVIA</font>: It's not just the occasional hechsher which may be upside down. Upside Down Cakes are delicious - they take the form of a sponge cake covered in sliced fruit. <font class="11point"> <br>&#9679; <a href="http://www.oukosher.org/index.php/consumer/recipes/upside_down_peach_torte_dairy_or_pareve/">Upside Down Peach Torte</a> (dairy or pareve) <br>&#9679; <a href="http://www.kosherdelight.com/Hanukkahrecipes10.shtml">Menorah Upside Down Cake</a> (pineapple and cherries) </font> </TD></tr> <!-- =================================================================== --> <!--Telma Passover Yeast --> <tr><td><A NAME="PASSOVERYEAST"></A><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"> <table border="0"> <td><FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Kosher Passover Yeast</FONT> <br><br>An interesting article by Rabbi Zushe Yosef Blech, eminent in the field of kashrut, may be found at <a href="https://www.alestreetonline.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=160">www.alestreetonline.com</a>. Rabbi Blech discusses the chemistry of fermentation and Passover yeast. <br><center><img src="TELMAcube-x128.jpg" width="128"></center> </td> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="bottom"><small>KOSHER&nbsp;FOR<br>PASSOVER</small><br><IMG SRC="10-telmaKLP-x256.jpg" BORDER="0" ALT="Telma Stock Cube - Kosher for Passover"></td> <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="bottom">&nbsp;<br><small>KOSHER</small><br><IMG SRC="10-telmaK-x256.jpg" BORDER="0" ALT="Telma Stock Cube - Kosher"></td></tr> <tr><td align="right" valign="bottom"><IMG SRC="10a-telma-x288.jpg" width="288" BORDER="0" ALT="image 772" align="right"></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <!--Kosher greetings card --> <tr><td><A NAME="KOSHERCARD"></A><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"><P> <IMG SRC="koshercard-x152.jpg" BORDER="0" ALT="image 772" align="right"> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Kosher Greetings Card</FONT> <br>This design, printed on the back of a greetings card, provides price information. However, it seems unlikely that anyone will attempt to eat the card given its apparently kosher status!</p> </td></tr> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <!--google: egg marketing board --> <TR><TD><A NAME="MITZRAIMEGGS"></A><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"><P> <!-- <img src="" align="right"> --> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Mitzraim Eggs - Kosher and Cruel</FONT> <br>Here in the United Kingdom hen eggs are classified as follows: <table border="0" width="600" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="F3F3F3"> <tr><td width="32" align="center">class</td> <td width="568">description</td></tr> <tr><td align="center">O </td><td>organic free-range eggs: <small>hens are free to roam in fields during the day. Perch in a barn at night. Fed organic feeds.</small></td></tr> <tr><td align="center">1 </td><td>free-range eggs: <small>hens are free to roam in fields during the day. Perch in a barn at night.</small></td></tr> <tr><td align="center">2 </td><td>barn eggs: <small>hen lives 24/7 in a barn together with up to 13,000 other hens.</small></td></tr> <tr><td align="center">3 </td><td>cage eggs (battery eggs): <small>hen lives 24/7 in its own cage which is only slightly larger than its body, i.e. an area a bit bigger than your laptop computer screen.</small></td></tr> </table> <br>&nbsp;<br> <table border="0" align="right"><tr><td align="center"> <small>kosher hens, kosher eggs, treife factory</small><br> <a href="http://www.viva.org.uk/"><img src="bhens001a.jpg" border="0" width="272" alt="click for http://www.viva.org.uk/"></a> <div align="center"> <font face="arial narrow" size="2">source: Vegetarians International Voice for Animals<br>http://www.viva.org.uk/</font> </div> </td></tr></table> The hens which lay cage eggs and barn eggs are kept in horrible and unnatural conditions. <br>&nbsp;<br> Should we Jews celebrate Pesach and our deliverance from slavery with a cage egg or barn egg - products of slavery - on the seder plate, especially when there is the alternative of Free-Range eggs? Should we eat cage eggs or barn eggs at any other time of year? <br>&nbsp;<br> More information about good eggs from good producers: <small> <br>1.. <a href="http://www.britegg.co.uk/">British Egg Information Service</a>, <br>2.. <a href="http://www.wheresyoursfrom.com/index.asp">British egg locator</a> <br>3.. <a href="http://www.thehenshouse.co.uk/">Battery Hen Welfare Trust</a>, <br>4.. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/02/nchickens102.xml">Jamie Oliver campaigns for chicken welfare</a>, <br>&nbsp;<br>See also <a href="http://www.clarencecourt.co.uk/">Clarence Court</a> eggs laid by <a href="http://www.clarencecourt.co.uk/quail.asp">free-range quails</a> and free-range hens and geese. [<a href="http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0216.htm#13">Exodus 16:13</a>]</small> </TD></tr> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <TR><TD><A NAME="686"></A><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"><P> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Small and Illegible</FONT> <div align="center"> <img src="9a-MaxiYums.jpg" border="1" width="68" align="center"> <br>approximate actual size and legibility <br>&nbsp;<br><img src="9-MaxiYums.jpg" border="1" align="center"> <br>magnification: 3.4x </div> <p align="justify">The image is copied from a full-page advertisement for "MaxiYums&#153; Omega Yums&#153; - It tastes yummy!" published on the inside front cover of <a href="http://www.kashrusmagazine.com">Kashrus Magazine</a>, No.135, dated July 2007. The product is a fish oil food supplement and the advertisement includes a picture of a young boy and the accompanying text "Build his Brain." It would be reassuring to learn that the product is equally able to "Build her brain" too. <ul type="disc"> <li>The small text of the GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) logo (3.8mm wide) is too small to read but the "GMP" text is easily readable.</li> <li>The Orthodox Union hechsher (2.4mm wide) due to its simple design elements is legible and easily readable without a magnifying glass. </li> <li>The right-most logo (2.5mm wide) is the hechsher of <a href="../hechshers/686.htm">Rav Shmuel Dovid Krausz, the Udvarer Rav, of Beth Din of Hameyuchud, Brooklyn, New York.</a> It is illegible at any magnification. </li> </ul> </p> </TD></tr> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <TR><TD><A NAME="KOSHERBLOG"></A><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"><P> <img src="godol_hador.bmp" align="right"> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">World's first kosher blog?</FONT> <br><a href="http://muqata.blogspot.com/search/label/Shmitta">http://muqata.blogspot.com/search/label/Shmitta</a> </TD></tr> <!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <TR><TD><A NAME="BARTENURA"></A><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"><P></P> <IMG SRC="8-bartenura_bottle.jpg" BORDER="0" WIDTH="204" ALIGN="RIGHT"> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Hechsher on a wine capsule</FONT> <BR>Most wine bottles are sealed with a plastic heat-shrink capsule. In the illustration opposite the deep-blue capsule on the half-bottle of Bartenura&#153; Moscato 2005 has embossed on it in gold lettering the hechsher of <A HREF="../kashauth/32.htm">Rabbi Menachem Meir Weissmandl of Nitra-Monsey, NY, U.S.A.</A> The main bottle label, composed of three separate labels, bears the OU hechsher whilst the "rear" label bears the hechsher of <A HREF="../hechshers/537.htm">Rabbi G.M. Garelik of Milan, Italy.</A> <A HREF="../hechshers/536.htm"><IMG SRC="../hechshers/536.jpg" BORDER="0" WIDTH="160" ALIGN="RIGHT"></A> <BR>&nbsp;<BR><SMALL>Tasting note: delicious white wine with a slight fizz and a flavour described as peachy. Best when chilled.</SMALL> </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <TR><TD><A NAME="555"></A><P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Legible printed Hebrew</FONT> <BR>There are several examples of badly printed hechshers elsewhere on this web-site. Here is an example of <U>good printing</U> which proves that printed Hebrew, especially at very small font sizes, can be legible. The actual line height of each of the two sentences in the middle is only about 0.6mm, yet the ink has not degenerated into illegible blobs. The image, shown here magnified about 6x, is from a tube of Colgate&#153; Fluoride Toothpaste. The hechsher is that of the <A HREF="../kashauth/24.htm">Manchester Beth Din, U.K.</A> <A HREF="../hechshers/555.htm"><IMG SRC="../hechshers/555.jpg" BORDER="0" WIDTH="568" ALIGN="CENTER"></A> </TD></TR> </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <TR><TD><A NAME="514"></A><P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <IMG SRC="../hechshers/514.jpg" BORDER="0" WIDTH="208" ALIGN="RIGHT"> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Illegible hechsher</FONT> <BR>This <A HREF="../kashauth/12.htm">Kedassia</A> hechsher is shown here approximately twice actual size. The diameter of the printed original is 11.0mm. At a glance the hechsher looks like a Kedassia hechsher but apart from its general appearance there is nothing else to identify it positively. </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <IMG SRC="6-elite-lentils.jpg" BORDER="1" WIDTH="200" ALIGN="RIGHT"> <BR><FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Kosher L'Pesach Lentils</FONT> <BR>These delicious little chocolates resemble seeds and bear the <I>Kosher L'Pesach</I> hechshers of the <A HREF="../kashauth/29.htm">Orthodox Union</A> and <A HREF="../hechshers/2.htm">Rabbi Yechiel Babad, the Tartikover Rav</A>. The product is manufactured by <A HREF="http://www.elite.co.il/english/about.asp">Elite Confectionery</A> of Nazareth-Illit, Israel. </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <!--image: Kedassia - London Beth Din --><A NAME="474"></A> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="204" ALIGN="RIGHT"> <TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="401"></A> <IMG SRC="5-kedassia-lbd.jpg" WIDTH="200" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT"> </TD></TR></TABLE> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Oops ...</FONT> <BR>My enjoyment of a large slice of kosher cake at the <A HREF="http://www.jewishbookweek.com">Jewish Book Week 2006</A> exhibition in London was heightened by an unexpected bonus; a hechsher with a typographic malfunction. <BR>&nbsp;<BR>The hechshers of the <A HREF="../kashauth/21.htm">London Beth Din</A> include the words <IMG SRC="5a.jpg" WIDTH="128">, 'london v'hamedina' or London and the Region. See the lower horizontal line of text in hechsher no.1. <BR>&nbsp;<BR>By some curious quirk of typography the same words appear upside-down in the upper semi-circle of the <A HREF="../kashauth/12.htm">Kedassia</A> hechsher, no.2. The Hebrew sentence which is usually printed in the space is: <BR><FONT DIR="RTL" FACE="DAVID" SIZE="4"> ê×ê ÔéÒ×ê ÔèÑàÕê Ó×êÐ×ÓÕê çÔÜÕê Ô×èÓÙÝ</FONT> <BR>&nbsp;<BR>Both hechshers were printed on the same paper seal on the wrapping of cake supplied by <A HREF="http://www.ddsandwiches.com/">DD's Kosher Sandwiches Ltd</A>, London. <BR>&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR> </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <!--image: Gefen Creamer --> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="204" ALIGN="RIGHT"> <TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><A NAME="401"></A> <IMG SRC="../hechshers/401.jpg" WIDTH="200" BORDER="1" ALIGN="RIGHT"> </TD></TR> <TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>Dimensions of the white area:<BR>34mm W x 38mm H</SMALL></TD></TR> </TABLE> <BR>&nbsp;<BR> <!--text: Gefen Creamer--> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">The world's smallest hechsher</FONT> <BR>There are two tiny hechshers displayed on this Gefen® Coffee Creamer label which was used to seal the small plastic container supplied to me as part of a kosher airline meal in March 2004. The smaller of the two hechshers is indicated by an arrow and is that of the <A HREF="../kashauth/29.htm">Orthodox Union OU</A>. Its diameter is only 1.0 millimetre. For comparison I measured the diameter of the heads of fifteen one-inch (25mm) pins used in sewing. The average head diameter was 1.7 millimetres. Thus one OU hechsher may fit onto the head of a pin with plenty of space left over for as many angels as might care to dance there. <BR><SMALL><SMALL>TECHNICAL NOTE</SMALL>: I used a <A HREF="http://www.google.co.uk/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q=dial%20caliper">dial caliper</A> to measure the pin head <BR>diameters and calculated the average diameter with Lotus 123.</SMALL> <BR> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="4" BGCOLOR="#E0E0F6" WIDTH="99%"> <TR><TD COLSPAN="4"><SMALL>Miniature hechshers which are too small to be read with the naked eye include the following: <BR>(<I>For inclusion in this list a hechsher's largest dimension must be smaller than 5.0mm</I>) </SMALL></TD></TR> <TR><TD WIDTH="120" VALIGN="BOTTOM"><SMALL><B>authority</B></SMALL></TD> <TD WIDTH="248" VALIGN="BOTTOM"><SMALL><B>product</B></SMALL></TD> <TD WIDTH="72" VALIGN="BOTTOM" ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL><B>largest<BR>dimension</B></SMALL></TD> <td width="72" VALIGN="BOTTOM" align="center"><small><b>readable under 8x magni- fication?</b></small></td> </TR> <TR><TD><SMALL>Orthodox Union</SMALL></TD> <TD><SMALL>Gefen&#0174; Coffee Creamer [see image above]</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>&nbsp;1.0mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> <TR><TD><A NAME="502"></A><SMALL>Harav Yeshua Hadad, Milan, Italy</SMALL></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="502.jpg" WIDTH="40" ALIGN="RIGHT"> <SMALL>Tic Tac&#0174; Fresh Orange confectionery <BR>[<SMALL>BLURRED SOURCE IMAGE</SMALL>]</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>2.0mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> <TR><TD><SMALL>??</SMALL></TD> <TD><SMALL>Gefen&#0174; Coffee Creamer [see image above]</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>2.1mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> <TR><TD><SMALL>Chug Chatam Sofer</SMALL></TD> <TD><SMALL>Tnuva&#0174; Creamy Soft Cheese</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>3.3mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> <TR><TD><SMALL>South African Beth Din</SMALL></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="sabd.jpg" WIDTH="40" ALIGN="RIGHT"><SMALL>Candarel&#0174; [sweetener, stick sachet, 1gram]</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>3.5mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> <TR><TD><SMALL>London Beth Din</SMALL></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="klbd.jpg" WIDTH="30" ALIGN="RIGHT"><SMALL>Candarel&#0174; [sweetener, stick sachet, 1gram]</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>3.6mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> <!--19 July 2010--> <TR><TD><SMALL>London Beth Din</SMALL></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="adafina-1.jpg" WIDTH="32" ALIGN="RIGHT"><SMALL><a href="http://www.adafina.co.uk">Adafina</a>&#0174; [large cookie]</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>4.0mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> <!--19 July 2010--> <TR><TD><SMALL>Sephardi Beth Din</SMALL></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="adafina-2.jpg" WIDTH="36" ALIGN="RIGHT"><SMALL><a href="http://www.adafina.co.uk">Adafina</a>&#0174; [chocolate cake slice]</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>4.3mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> <TR><TD><SMALL>Rabbi Yaakov Weisheim</SMALL></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="miniature-5-x18.jpg" width="30" ALIGN="RIGHT"><SMALL>Paskez&#153; lemon flavoured sugar in a lemon-shaped container</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>4.5mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> <TR><TD><SMALL>Rabbi Z. Weitman, Tnuva Ltd.</SMALL></TD> <TD><SMALL>Tnuva&#0174; Creamy Soft Cheese</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>4.8mm</SMALL></TD><td>&nbsp;</td></TR> </TABLE> <BR>&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR> </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <!--image: crop circle--> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="204" ALIGN="RIGHT"><TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/cropcircles_999/index9c.htm"><IMG SRC="3-crop_circle.jpg" WIDTH="216" BORDER="1" ALIGN="RIGHT"></A></TD></TR> <TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>click on the image<BR>for more crop circles</SMALL></TD></TR></TABLE> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">The world's biggest hechsher? </FONT> <BR>You saw it here first! The hechsher of an unidentified kashrut authority imprinted upon a crop of wheat. It is not known whether the hechsher certifies the field or the whole of Canada. </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <!--image: challah bread--> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="204" ALIGN="RIGHT"><TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"> <IMG SRC="7-challah.jpg" WIDTH="216" BORDER="1" ALIGN="RIGHT"></TD></TR> </TABLE> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">The world's smallest "challah bread"</FONT> <BR>Despite its mouthwatering appearance it's not actually a real challah. It's made of marzipan by Oppenheimer (1998) Ltd of Jerusalem and the wrapping bears the hechshers of the Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem and of the Beth Din Tzedek of the Chareidi Community, Jerusalem. <!--It is about 100mm long, 35mm wide and 18mm high. --> </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <A NAME="OLIVIA"></A><P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <!--image: --> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="204" ALIGN="RIGHT"> <TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="2-olivia_sauce.jpg" WIDTH="216" BORDER="1" ALIGN="RIGHT"></TD></TR> <TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><FONT SIZE="1">My thanks go to Alison Behr<BR>for alerting me to this product.</FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Eat! Don't Eat!</FONT> <BR>The jar of <A HREF="http://www.olivia.co.il">Olivia</A> ® Gourmet Garlic & Honey Sauce bears the following three items of kashrut advice: <BR><OL><LI>Kosher for Passover-<A HREF="../glossary.htm#KITNIYOT">Kitniyot</A>. Supervised by <A HREF="../kashauth/157.htm">Even Yehuda Rabbinate</A> [Israel]</LI> <LI><A HREF="../kashauth/29.htm">OU</A> Not certified for Passover use</LI> <LI><A HREF="../kashauth/29.htm">OU</A> Parve</LI></OL> <P>The meaning of the apparently conflicting statements in (1) and (2) is that if you are a Sephardi Jew then you may eat the [delicious] sauce during Passover. If you are an Ashkenazi Jew then you may not. It raises a question concerning the completeness of "Kosher for Passover" kashut advice. Not all of us grocery shoppers are familiar with the subtle nuances of kashrut jargon. The meaning of "Kosher for Passover" depends upon whether the kashrut authority is Sephardi or Ashkenazi. Should a hungry Passover eater need to enquire into the kashrut orientation of a kashrut authority before deciding to eat or not eat?</P> <BR>&nbsp;<BR> </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <A NAME="WHISTLERS"></A> <!--image: whistling bubble gum --> <TABLE BORDER="0" WIDTH="204" ALIGN="RIGHT"><TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"> <IMG SRC="4-bubble_gum.jpg" WIDTH="300" BORDER="1" ALIGN="RIGHT"></TD></TR> <TR><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><SMALL>The package contains five spherical hollow bubble gums in various bright colours. Each bubble gum is pierced by a single hole: follow the arrow for an example.</SMALL></TD></TR> </TABLE> <FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">The world's most ingenious kosher food</FONT> <BR>"Whistler's Whistle 'n Chew" bubble gum, whilst not actually a meal item, is kosher, edible and ingenious in its design. It also provides some energy due to its sugar content. The inventors combined the notion of bubble gum and a hollow sphere pierced by a single hole. If one blows across the hole, as one might blow across the mouthpiece of a traverse flute or the opening of a narrow-necked bottle, then a shrill whistle ensues. This product is the result of inspired lateral thinking, or, thinking outside the box as our American friends might say. The bubble gum is manufactured by Concord Confections Inc. of Canada and bears the hechsher of Bloomy's OU Kosher. <BR>&nbsp;<BR> </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --> <P><HR COLOR="#BBBBBB"></P> <!--image: Sudiyari Yoghurt --> <TABLE BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT"> <TR><TD WIDTH="336"><FONT FACE="Tennessee Heavy SF Bold" COLOR="#FFAA11" SIZE="5">Milk and Meat Yoghurt</FONT> <BR>This is not a kosher product. It is yoghurt which was manufactured in Denmark for sale through Turkish grocery shops. The ingredients list obligingly states that the yoghurt contains beef gelantine which is kosher. It is difficult to understand why a manufacturer would select a kosher ingredient for a product which would never be eaten by Observant Jews. , i.e. kosher beef gelatine. <BR><IMG SRC="1-ingredients.jpg" WIDTH="256"></TD> <TD WIDTH="264" ALIGN="CENTER" VALIGN="TOP"><BR>&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;<BR><IMG SRC="1-sutdiyari_yoghurt.jpg" WIDTH="240" BORDER="1" ALIGN="RIGHT"><BR>&nbsp;<BR></TD> </TR><tr bgcolor="#E7E7E7"> <td colspan="2"><small>In October 2006 Zev Sero wrote: You are wrong. Going by the ingredients alone, this product may very well be kosher (at least for those who don't require in-person Jewish supervision on the milk). Kosher beef gelatin (made in the USA under the brand name Kolatin) is parve [<i>a beef gelatin made from Glatt Kosher beef hides which are not considered to be meat</i>], and there is absolutely no reason why it could not be used in chalav yisrael yoghurts and advertised as kosher limhadrin min hamehadrin. This particular yoghurt may be produced under a hechsher which isn't printed on the packet, as is the case with many products in Europe, in which case it is a kosher product. In fact, since kosher gelatin costs more than normal gelatin, I rather suspect that it does have a hechsher of some kind, which is simply omitted from the Turkish packaging. <hr> A description of these matters may be found at <a href="http://www.kashrut.com/articles/DryBones/">http://www.kashrut.com/articles/DryBones/</a>. <br>Kolatin&#153; as referred to above is entirely different to <a href="http://www.henriettesherbal.com/eclectic/bpc1911/cola.html">kolatin</a> which is a crystalline substance derived from kola seeds. </small></td></tr> <TR> <TD COLSPAN="2">&nbsp;</TD></TR><TR> <TD>A different non-kosher product, a "lemon fruit fool" marketed by Morrisons Supermarkets in the United Kingdom, contains pork gelatine although you may have difficulty reading the list as printed on the container because of the small narrow typeface. <BR><SMALL><SMALL>DEFINITION: </SMALL> A fruit fool is made from crushed fruit, lightly stewed and mixed with cream and sugar.</SMALL></TD> <TD ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="1-fruit_fool.jpg" WIDTH="256"><BR><SMALL>approx. 2x magnification</SMALL></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <BR>&nbsp;<BR> </TD></TR> <!--end: page width--> <TR><TD>&nbsp;</TD></TR> </TABLE> <!-- END CONTENT --> <BR>&nbsp;<BR> <CENTER><IMG SRC="../magendav.jpg"></CENTER> <BR>&nbsp;<BR> <A NAME="END"></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> <!-- end: table to set page width --> </TD></TR></TABLE> <!-- ---------------------------- --> <!-- advertising blocks --> </td><td valign="top"> <table> <tr height="104"><td><a href="../adverts/redirects/1.htm"><img src="../adverts/jpegs/1-x162.jpg" border="1"></a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="../adverts/index.htm"><img src="../adverts/jpegs/2-x162.jpg" border="0"></a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="../adverts/index.htm"><img src="../adverts/jpegs/3-x162.jpg" border="0"></a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="../adverts/index.htm"><img src="../adverts/jpegs/4-x162.jpg" border="0"></a></td></tr> <tr><td><a href="../adverts/index.htm"><img src="../adverts/jpegs/5-x162.jpg" border="0"></a></td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </BASEFONT> </BODY> </HTML>