Kosher Birds: Who Are They? You'll Have a Ball with these Fowls!

Kosher fish have fins and scales. Kosher mammals have cloven hooves and ruminate. And kosher birds have...what exactly???

In "Kosher Birds: Who Are They?," a unique video seminar, Rabbi Chaim Loike, a Rabbinic Coordinator with OU Kashruth possessing special expertise in birds, explains how we determine that a bird is kosher. Using live birds-squawks and all!-Rabbi Loike addresses such questions as: What are the physical traits of kosher birds? How does Judaism define a predatory bird? What role does communal tradition play here?

Let Rabbi Loike be your guide, and understand kashruth in a whole new way.

"Kosher Birds: Who Are They?" is one of several projects of OU Kosher's expanded educational outreach. OU Kosher's educational programs include the ever-popular "OU Kosher Coming" program, which sends OU's expert rabbis to schools, synagogues and college campuses to share their knowledge of halacha and technology, as well as the ever-growing "Kosher Tidbits" series of short seminars on innumerable aspects of kashruth and certification, available at ouradio.org.

The Orthodox Union is producing a series of DVD's devoted to kashruth education, which includes: "Kosher Kidz," which conveys the basics of kosher certification to a youthful audience; "The Kosher Fish Primer," which explains the basics of identifying kosher fish and purchasing them; and "Kosher Meat: Unexplored Frontiers with Rabbi Yisroel Belsky," which describes the laws and biology of kosher meat preparation. Suggestions for future DVD's will be most appreciated; they can be sent to Rabbi Eliyahu Safran at SafranE@OU.org.

For further information on bringing OU Kosher to your school or
community, or to receive the previous DVD's, contact Rabbi Eliyahu
Safran at SafranE@ou.org