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Summer 2004

From the Editor: In Times of Difficulty a Question of Meaning
by Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
Babies Choice Kosherization Awards
by Rabbi Avraham Stone
The Tasty Muffin
by Rabbi Yisroel Bendelstein
That David is One Smart Cookie
by Rachel Murray
At Premier Bakers, They are Passionate About their English Muffins
Cheryl & Co, Strives to Be the Best Gourmet Food and Gift Company Ever
OU Kosher to Recommend Organic Certification to OU Clients
The Fascinating Story of Kosher Gelatin
by Rabbi Eli Gersten
SGS and the OU Combining Kosher Certification & International Food Safety Concerns
Ask The Rabbi
by Rabbi Jacob Mendelson
Chicago’s First Artisan Distillery is OU Kosher and Organic
by Rabbi Jacob Mendelson
Lucid’s Lucid Decision
No Surprise at Symrise
The Perfect Pet of the Pentateuch
by Rabbi Chaim Loike
Colombia Land of (Kosher) Opportunity
by Rabbi Aharon Brun-Kestler
Go South, Young Mashgiach
by Rabbi Norman Schloss
Bazooka Candy Brands Top Selling RingPop Certified Kosher
Insect-Free Home Vegetable Inspection
New FDA Ruling Opens Door to Innovative Kosher Colorants
by Rabbi Gavriel Price

Summer 2004

The OU Job Board Responds to the Economic Crisis
Editor’s Letter: Israel, Kosher food and the World’s Appetite
by Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran

OU Companies Speak

Aunt Berta stir’s the Pot
Matzot Aviv: A Family Business that Spans the Globe
The Tnvua Story
Osem is Honored at OU National Dinner

Kvutzat Yavne: From the Soil of an Israeli Kibbutz

Devoting Energy to Saving Energy
by Rabbi Eli Gersten
Fancy Water Stirs Up the Beverage Boom
by Bayla Sheva Brenner
The Partridge of the Prophet
by Rabbi Chaim Loike
Ask the Rabbi: Repacking
by Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz
Not a Day Without Class. Talmud, That Is
by Bayla Sheva Brenner
Down in Old Kentucky: OU Certified Bluegrass Dairy Hits the Finish Line First at the Kentucky State Fair
OVAL: The Brand New Super-Premium Vodka Announces OU Certification
Cherry Heering and Heering Coffee join the Orthoodx Union
Marumatok Winery: Quality Kosher Wines Argentina to the world
Atlantic Canada: Vacationer’s delight, OU Kosher Paradise
by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
Good Golly! Mollicoolz Cryogenic Ice Cream Is now OU Kosher
OU Direct Account Managing Tool for OU Kosher Companies Adds Online Ingredient Automation as new Feature
When Kosher and Allergen Issues Do Not Converge
by Rabbi Gavriel Price

Summer 2004

Editor’s Letter: A Jam-Packed Issue
Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
On the Beam: In Largest Liquor Kosher Certification in U.S., DeKuyper 60-Flavor Line of Cordials and Liqueurs Recieves OU Symbol
China Goes Kosher
by Stan L. Friedman and Ilya Welfeld
China’s Kosher Takeout
by Ching-Ching Ni
Inspirational and Healthy Eating For Passover
by Bayla Sheva Brenner
Sandwiches: Symbol or Meal
by Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
A Blend of the Old and the New
by Menachem Lubinsky
Stolichnaya Sets the Standard
The Monk’s Tale: Frangelico Liqueur from Italy
by Rabbi Shaul Gold
Your Kosher HoOUscope
by Rabbi Avrohom Stone
The Cold Facts: How to Make Kosher Ice Cream
Flying the Kosher Skies
by Stephen Steiner
It’s Not Greek To Him
by Rabbi Aharon Brun-Kestler
The Gerentes: A Greek Family Devoted to Olives and To OU Kosher
by Rabbi Aharon Brun-Kestler
Helping Consumers Get the Most Bang For the Buck on Food Purchases
by Brian Todd
Martek Makes its Mark in Bioscience
by Rabbi Menachem Adler
At Martek, Quality Assurance and OU Kosher Certification Go Hand in Hand
by Rabbi Menachem Adler
The Tea Party Is Just Getting Started: Honest Reflections
by Seth Goldman
Tanks for the Memories
by Rabbi Gavriel Price
It’s Not Child’s Play

Summer 2004

Jelly Belly Candy Company Steps Up to OU Kosher Certification: Sunkist Fruit Gems and Fruit Slices Are Now Made By the Company Known for the Finest Jelly Beans
Spangler and the OU: Make a Dandy, Candy Combination
From the Editor: Zachlawi Fig Arak
Personal Notes
by Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
Transitioning Traditional Kosher Brands to the Mainstream: There are two new truths in the kosher food industry. FIRST, kosher isn’t just gefilte fish and borscht anymore. SECOND, a typical kosher shopper isn’t a bubbie named Sadie Rosenberg.
by Gayle Schindler
OU and Tribune Company Affiliate to Place Cents-Off Coupon Inserts in Major Newspapers Nationwide, in Certified Kosher Marketing Initiative
The OU’s Spice Maven: Tells Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
by Rabbi Israel Rothenberg
OU Companies Speak: Adding Spice to Life: Gel Spice Company Proudly Displays OU Symbol on its Products
OU Certification Enhances R.L Schreiber, Inc.’s Quality Culture
The flowering of La Flor: A Spice Company Blossoms Under OU Certification
What’s New With Nu? A Spice Company Grows, With Its OU Certification
Foran Puts Spice in the OU
Schiff Food Products Spices Up Its Customers’ Business
The Move Away From Trans Fats & Your OU Kosher Program
by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
Kosher Organic: A Natural (And Profitable) Match
by Bayla Sheva Brenner
Is Your OU Kosher Program Running Smoothly
The China Syndrome: Booming in Finances and in Kosher Too
by Rabbi Mordechai Grunberg
A Fine China For The Kosher Palate: OU Business Is Booming in the Steadily Growing Giant
by Rabbi Donneal Epstein
Going Kosher has Become Good Business in China
by Evan Osnos (Chicago Tribune)
An Ingredient for Success: The IAR Ensures Standards That The Consumer Associates With OU Kosher Certification
by Rabbi Raymond Morrison
Rabbi, Wine is Fine, but Liquor?: Interesting Kosher Issues in the Liquor Industry
by Rabbi Aharon Brun-Kestler
OU Companies Speak: Anticipation is Bubbling Over for Zachlawi Fig Arak
Here Are the Cold Facts About Iceberg Vodka Corporation
A Pasteurizer Speaks Out: Being Kosherized and Loving It
by: Rabbi Avrohom Stone
Don’t Look Now, But Nanotechnology Deals With Substances You Can’t See, But Have An Impact On Kosher!
by Rabbi Eliyahu W. Ferrell
Kosher Food For the Princeton Tiger: How the Ou Partners With the Dining Hall at the Ivy League Campus
OU/SGS Partnership: Sub-Title: To Enable Simultaneous Kosher Supervision and Certification Audits
by Rabbi Gad Buchbinder

Summer 2004

OU Kosher Kidz Video

Editor’s Letter: Why Food Matters
by: Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran

Good News for Gluten- Free Consumers: Now You Can Have Your Cake & Eat it Too!
by: Bayla Sheva Brenner

Gluten-Free Flour Power: Celiac Sufferer helps Others by Helping Herself
by: Bayla Sheva Brenner

At Twin Rivers Technologies, OU Kosher Glycerin Is Now in Production

All in a day’s Work (Actually Many Days): Twin Rivers and OU Kosher Make a Complex Kosherization a Realityby: Rabbi Avrohom Stone

OU Companies Speak

In the Plain of Spain: An OU Rabbinic Coordinator Seeks Out Olives and Other Kosher Products
by: Rabbi Aharon Brun-Kestler

Aceites y Salsas Muela: Expands into the Olive Oil Business with Help from the OU

La Morella Nuts Provides Ingredients for Recipes That Are Both Tasty and Healthful

The Olives of Seville: Loreto Specialty Foods S.L. Supplies OU Certified Olives to Worldwide Market, Including United States

Mario Camacho Foods Merges Seville with Omaha, with Quality and Safety as the Goals

Upstate Stories

Fortitech Holds the Fort

OU and Fortitech: A Mutually Fortifying Relationship

OU Profile: Rabbi Zvi Goodman

Captive Audience: OU Kosher Provides Meals for the New York State Prison System
by: Seth Eben Shapiro

Rabbi Bomzer’s Capital District OU Route

OU RFR Profile: Rabbi Moshe Bomzer

Birds of the Bible: Solving the Mystery of Which of the Species Are Kosher And Which Are Not
by: Rabbi Chaim Loike

In An Absolute World: The Most Iconic Vodka Receives the Kosher Seal of Approval of the Orthodox Union

OU Kosher’s China Syndrome: How I Traveled to Shanghai to Promote the World’s Most Popular Kashrut Symbol and Experienced a Shabbat to Remember
by: Phyllis Koegel

World-Wide Window to OU Kosher
by: Bayla Sheva Brenner

Ask The Rabbi: Tanker Trailers
by: Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz

It’s Anchovy Time
by: Rabbi Chaim Goldberg

At Kingsburg Orchards, Kosher Coatings Make Their Fruits Peachy Keen
by: Rabbi Gavriel Price

OU Kosher Supervisor in Louisville Plays Matchmaker Between Certified Companies and JFVS Food Pantry

Summer 2004

Editor’s Letter: A Winning Story
by Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
Survey Finds OU the Clear Leader in Kosher Certification
OU’s (Growing) Continental Connection
by Bayla Sheva Brenner
US Drives Global Kosher Ingredient Need
by Jess Halliday
Anuga: A Trade Show Lover’s Dream
by Phyllis Koegel
ESP@DSP?: How a State of the Art Automated System Revolutionized Dairy Processing at an OU Certified Plant
by Rabbi Andrew Gordimer
Here’s Something to Chew On: How Granola Brings Benefits to Health-Conscious Consumers
by Rabbbi Yisroel Bendelstein
Kashi: Great Tasting, Nutritious, and OU Kosher Too!
Not a Half-Baked Idea: Baker’s Breakfast Cookies. Nutritious and Delicious, Proudly Bear the OU’s Symbol as a Sign of Quality
At Harlan the Pursuit of Growth with Grains. Granola and the OU
by Diane Nagel
Cabot Quality Gets Stronger with OU Kosher Cheese
by Donna Berry
Everything’s Popping! (With the OU and Popcorn)
by Rabbi Aharon Brun-Kestler
It’s Cott to Be Good: If the Beverage is OU Kosher
by Kathryn Bundy
Keeping it Simple in Sunnyside
by Elena Olmstead
Have Tuna Will Travel: How OU Rabbis Survive on the Road Survive Without Kosher Restaurants by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
Brandy is Dandy But Needs Special Attention to be Kosher as Well
by Rabbi Yaakov Mendelson
Certification of Wine: Dear Rabbi, How Do You Make Kosher Wine by Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz
For the Lady or Gentleman Who Love Fine Chocolate in Liqueur Form, Godiva is the Product For You
For Goodness Sake: Takara Sake USA Bridges Cultural Divide by Becoming OU Kosher
At Takara, the Traditional and the Modern Combine to Produce High Quality Sake by Rabbi Gavriel Price
No More Free Lunch: With No More Free Lunches (or Breakfasts and Dinners) in the Skies, OU Calls on Domestic Airlines to Provide Kosher Meals and Snacks for Purchase; Will Work Closely with Carriers to Bring Kosher Items on Board by Stephen Steiner
OU Announces that its Universal Kosher Database is Being Made Available to the Public
OU Honors George Weston Bakeries Brands at Annual Dinner

Summer 2004

Jelly Belly Candy Company Steps Up to OU Kosher Certification: Sunkist Fruit Gems and Fruit Slices Are Now Made by the Company Known for the Finest Jelly Beans
Spangler and the OU Make a Dandy, Candy Combination
From the Editor: Zachlawi Fig Arak Personal Notes
Transitioning Traditional Kosher Brands to the Mainstream
by Gayle Schindler
Certified Kosher Coupon Program: OU and Tribune Company Affiliate to Place Cent-Off Coupon Inserts in Major Newspapers Nationwide, in Certified Kosher Marketing Initiative
The OU’s Spice Maven Tells Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
by Rabbi Israel Rothenberg
OU Companies Speak: Adding Spice to Life – Gel Spice Company Proudly Displays OU Symbol On Its Products
OU Certification Enhances R.L. Schreiber, Inc.’s Quality Culture
OU Companies Speak: The Flowering of La Flor: A Spice Company Blossoms Under OU Certification
What’s New With NU: A Spice Company Grows, With Its OU Certification
OU Companies Speak: Foran Puts Spice In The OU
OU Companies Speak: Schiff Food Products Spices Up Its Customers’ Business
A Healthy Connection: The Move Away From Trans Fats & Your OU Kosher Program
by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
Kosher Organic – A Natural (and Profitable) Match
by Bayla Sheva Brenner
The China Syndrome: Booming In Finances And In Kosher Too
by Rabbi Mordechai Grunberg
A Fine China For The Kosher Palate: OU Business Is Booming in the Steadily Growing Giant
by Rabbi Donneal Epstein
Chicago Tribune: Going Kosher Has Become Good Business In China
An Ingredient for Success: The IAR Ensures Standards That The Consumer Associates With OU Kosher Certification
by Rabbi Raymond Morrison
Rabbi, Wine is Fine, but Liquor?: Interesting Kosher Issues In The Liquor Industry
by Rabbi Aharon Brun-Kestler
OU Companies Speak Anticipation Is Bubbling Over For Zachlawi Fig Arak
OU Companies Speak: Here Are The Cold Facts About Iceberg Vodka Corporation
A Pasteurizer Speaks Out: Being Kosherized and Loving It
by Rabbi Avrohom Stone
Don’t Look Now, But Nanotechnology Deals With Substances You Can’t See, But Have An Impact On Kosher!
by Rabbi Eliyahu W. Ferrell
Kosher Food For The Princeton Tiger: How the OU Partners With the Dining Hall at the Ivy League Campus
OU /SGS Partnership To Enable Simultaneous Kosher Supervision Ander Certification Audits

Summer 2004

At Dreyer’s They Know, OU Is the Symbol That Sells
From the Editor: The Power of Pareve
by Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
The Kosher Consumer Speaks
by Menachem Lubinsky
Hello Dolly (Madison) The Cold Facts About Kosher Ice Cream Production
by Rabbi Andrew Gordimer
Mais Oui!: Pierre’s Ice Cream, With French Vanilla Leading The Way, Is Truly Magnifique
Life Is A Bowl of Perry’s (Ice Cream)
The Kashrut Side of Private Labels
by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
Carriage House Companies: 200 Years of Quality Serve the Modern Consumer
ShopRite: Kosher Private Label Brings Quality to the Table
by Gerald Farrell
Some Public Information on Private Label Requests
by Dorit Shamouelian
Kosher: A Symbol Worth Having
by Donna Berry
The Healthful Beverage Boom: America’s Gone Pro-Fruit and Antioxidant
by Bayla Sheva Brenner
Pom Wonderful: Pomegranate- It’s Not Only Good For You, But It’s OU Kosher Too
Not a Bolthouse From The Blue: Bolthouse Farms Has Provided Quality Vegetable Products Since 1915
The Revolution in The Oleo Chemical Industry
by Rabbi Yosef Goldberg
Thinking Outside of the Box: How an Infant Formula Company Became OU Kosher
An RFR Recalls That At the PBM Plant, Changing Socks Is Part of the Job
by Rabbi Levy Teitlebaum
Jansen Liqueurs Get The Royal Treatment-As Americans Will Soon Discover
Certification The Old-Fashioned Way: A report from the Herman Jansen RFR
by Rabbi Yisroel Hollander
They’re Nuts for Najla’s: A New Cookie Product Wins Raves And Boosts The Fortunes of a Newly Certified OU Company
Certifying Najla’s: An RFR’s Dream Job by Rabbi Yosef Levy
OU Kosher Announces Debut of OU DIRECT to Provide Vast Quantities of Information to Certified Companies
Feature Your Company on www.OUKosher.org!
A Recipe for Success: A Talented Team Creates a New Website
by Regina Avshalumova
Living-Kosher Website/Newsletter to Include OU Feature in Each Issue
It’s Tough Work, But Someone Has To Do It: Being an RC For The Ice Cream Industry
by Rabbi Michael Morris
Dryer’s Kosher Champion: Ed Trujillo
They’re Baaaaak! Duncan Hines Announces that Cake Mixes Will Once Again Be Certified Pareve
A Nestle Baby Formula Becomes Pareve: And The OU Sees The Realization of a Dream
Is Your OU Kosher Program Running Smoothly?

Summer 2004

At Last, the UDB Becomes a Reality by Rabbi Yaakov Luban
Here’s the Buzz on Certifying Veggies as Insect-free by Rabbi David Bistricer
Why the OU Bugged a Mathematician or Why I’m Going to Think Twice Before Buying any Packaged Product with Fruit or Vegetables that Doesn’t Have an OU on the Label by Dr. Bruce Bukiet
Bodek Kosher Produce – First in the Kosher Vegetable Revolution by Frimet Blum
Sally Sherman Foods: Family Values Make Sally Sherman Food a Salad Lover’s Delight By Vasili E. Zisis
Van Drunen Farms: Commitment to Quality for More Than a Century
Sol Dios Tequila: Is a Hit — Not in Record Stores, But in Liquor Stores — Following OU Certification
OU’s Longtime RFR’s — Kashrut Supervision Legends in Their Own Time by Bayla Sheva Brenner
Spray Dryer’s and the Koshering Process by Rabbi Raphael Ya’akov Blugrond
Sugar Flower Plus: When a Wedding Becomes an Even Greater Celebration by Terry Becker and Alex Koffler
Market Intelligence: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You by Elie Rosenfeld
World Ethnic Market by Rabbi Aharon J. Brun-Kestler
Michelman: Your One Source for True Kosher Packaging, with OU Quality Assured
Manischewitz Says You Can Have Your (Pareve) Cake Mix and Eat It Too

Summer 2004

Absolutely Marvelous News in the World of Vodka! Absolut is Certified Kosher by the Orthodox Union
Love your OU Kosher Starbucks Coffee? The Fames Symbol Now Graces the Bottles of Starbucks Liqueurs as Well
L’Chaim to Absolut Vodka, Starbucks Coffee and Cream Liqueurs, and Don Q Rums
From the Editor: Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
Inside The World Of Chocolate
by Rabbi Kalman Scheiner
Madelaine Chocolates: The Gourmet Chocolate For (OU) Kosher Consumers
Endangered Species Chocolate: Tastes Good and Does good At The Same Time
V Chocolates: Loving Life as an OU Company
Hoffman Chocolates: From the Florida Tropics Comes a Really Hot Product
The OU Becomes the Big Cheese At European Dairy Companies
by Rabbi Andrew Gordimer
In A Corner Of Old England, Making Cheese The Old-Fashioned Way At Ashley Chase
By George: Dew Lay Royal George Kosher English Cheese has Brought its Quality and Personal Service to the American Market
OU Orthodox Union Kashruth Division Presents A One Day Seminar for the Dairy Industry
Getting the Flavor of Certifying Flavors: A Primer
by Rabbi Moshe Zywica
Don’t Forget to Take Your Vitmains – Don’t Worry, They’re Kosher!
by Bayla Sheva Brenner
From Puerto Rico Comes Big News in the World of Rum Don Q is Now OU Kosher
Rum & Coke: Reuniting a Famous Pair, Under the OU Symbol
by Rabbi Norman Schloss
Kosherization made easy>>> Well, Not Exactly Easy, But Understandable
by Rabbi David Bistricer
ASKOU8 - Learning From the Masters: Two OU Late Summer Programs Train the Next Generation of Kosher Supervisors
by Regina Avshlumova
The Simple, But Extraordinary, Industriousness of the Bee
by Rabbi Gavriel Price
OU Companies Speak: At Balparmak—Honeybunch, The Beautiful Turkish Flowers Result In Great Turkish Honey
A Honey Of A Story
How Tropical Blossom Went From A Backwoods Cabin To Worldwide Sales
A Honey Tree Grows In Michigan
Gluten Free Certification Organization Moving Ahead; OU Partnership Critical To Program’s Success
Marketing Tips: If You’ve Got It – Flaunt It.
OU Policy Review

Summer 2004

Absolutely Marvelous News in the World of Vodka! Absolut is Certified Kosher by the Orthodox Union
Love your OU Kosher Starbucks Coffee? The Fames Symbol Now Graces the Bottles of Starbucks Liqueurs as Well
L’Chaim to Absolut Vodka, Starbucks Coffee and Cream Liqueurs, and Don Q Rums From the Editor: Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
Inside The World Of Chocolate by Rabbi Kalman Scheiner
OU Companies Speak: Madelaine Chocolates: The Gourmet Chocolate For (OU) Kosher Consumers Endangered Species Chocolate: Tastes Good and Does good At The Same Time V Chocolates: Loving Life as an OU Company Hoffman Chocolates: From the Florida Tropics Comes a Really Hot Product
The OU Becomes the Big Cheese At European Dairy Companies by Rabbi Andrew Gordimer
OU Companies Speak: In A Corner Of Old England, Making Cheese The Old-Fashioned Way At Ashley Chase
By George: Dew Lay Royal George Kosher English Cheese has Brought its Quality and Personal Service to the American Market
OU Orthodox Union Kashruth Division Presents A One Day Seminar for the Dairy Industry
Getting the Flavor of Certifying Flavors: A Primer by Rabbi Moshe Zywica
Don’t Forget to Take Your Vitmains – Don’t Worry, They’re Kosher! by Bayla Sheva Brenner
From Puerto Rico Comes Big News in the World of Rum Don Q is Now OU Kosher
Rum & Coke: Reuniting a Famous Pair, Under the OU Symbol by Rabbi Norman Schloss
Kosherization made easy>>> Well, Not Exactly Easy, But Understandable by Rabbi David Bistricer
ASKOU8 - Learning From the Masters: Two OU Late Summer Programs Train the Next Generation of Kosher Supervisors by Regina Avshlumova
The Simple, But Extraordinary, Industriousness of the Bee by Rabbi Gavriel Price
OU Companies Speak: At Balparmak—Honeybunch, The Beautiful Turkish Flowers Result In Great Turkish Honey
A Honey Of A Story
How Tropical Blossom Went From A Backwoods Cabin To Worldwide Sales
A Honey Tree Grows In Michigan
Gluten Free Certification Organization Moving Ahead; OU Partnership Critical To Program’s Success
Marketing Tips: If You’ve Got It – Flaunt It.
OU Policy Review

Summer 2004

Unilever United States - Adding Vitality to Life with the Orthodox Union
The Hole Truth: Together, Bagels and the OU by Rabbi Yisroel Bendelstein
Nobody Doesn't Like Sara Lee - Especially with the OU Symbol
Just Bagels: Crunchy on the Outside, Chewy on the Inside
Sound the Bell for Bell's Bialys
Dean Foods Northeast Discovers the Joys of Consolidation by Bayla Sheva Brenner
Dettling Swiss Kirsch: A Cherry Brandy to Savor for Purity and the OU Symbol by Andrea Baumgartner
How to put the OU Symbol on Your Label by Rabbi Avraham Stone
Have a Hot Kosher Question? Call the OU Kosher Hotline and We'll Set You Straight by Rabbi David Polsky
An RC Explores the Lifestyles of Chilean Salmon, or, How are you Going to Keep them Down on the Farm, after they've Seen Salmones Multiexport? by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
Salmones Mutliexport and Aquafarms International by Brian MacDonald
Marine Harvest's Emphasis on Quality Includes the Symbol
Exploring Glycerin Uses by Lynn Grooms
Let the World Know You are Kosher. Not just Kosher, OU Kosher
OU Announces Certification of Miss Roben's Allergen-Friendly Baking Mixes

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Summer 2004

Novoenzymes: Unlocking the Magic of Nature Through (OU Kosher) Biological Solutions Experiencing a Maalox Moment: Following Triaminic, the OU Certifies Novartis Consumer Health’s Famed Heartburn Remedy
Chemical Engineer and Kosher Coordinator by Jes Knudsen
When It’s Enzyme Time Call on the OU by Rabbi Menachem Adler
OU Profile: Rabbi Menachem Adler
October is National Inclusion Month at the OU
New Food Safety Program: Independent Certification Program for Gluten-Free Food Processing Utilizes OU Kosher Expertise
“I Have to Check With the Senior Rabbis” What Happens When A Question of Jewish Law Goes to the OU’s Poskim by Rabbi Dovid Cohen
OU PROFILE: Rabbi Dovid Cohen
The China Syndrome: Products Help to Fuel Giant Economic Growth by Rabbi Mordechai Grunberg
The New China: Booming Economy, Growing OU Presence by Rabbi Donneal Epstein
OU PROFILE: Rabbi Donneal Epstein
OU COMPANIES SPEAK: And OU Tea from Argentina Too by Horacio Clein
OU Certification Suits Sri Lanka Company to a Tea
Looking for Kosher Sushi or MSG? If it’s OU Certified, it’s on the New Website Product Search by Rabbi Yonatan Kaganoff
So You Hate Regulatory Paperwork? The OU Comes to the Rescue by Howard Katzenstein
The Kashrut of Color Additives by Rabbi Gavriel Price

Summer 2004

The Health Benefits of Fish: Without the Fish Now Kosher, MEG-3™ Brand Omega-3 Powder and Fish Oil Offer Food and Supplement Companies an Explosive Opportunity by Susan Michel, MBA
Spring 2005 Kashrut Conference
Nothing Fishy Here: Beyond the Four-Year Process at Ocean Nutrition to Make Fish Oil Kosher by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
Culture for the Masses: The Complexities of Yogurt Certification by Rabbi Andrew Gordimer
OU Companies Speak Leaving No Stone Unturned at…Stonyfield Farm By Chris Halverson
Stonyfield Farms: An OU Rabbi’s Dream Company by Rabbi Gershon Segal
Organic Valley Dairy Cooperative: Independent and Farmer-Owned by Jim Pierce
An Axelrod to Grind at the OU by Jerry Gaube
OU KOSHER Bringing Boom for Business & Consistent Quality to Consumers by Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran and Bayla Sheva Brenner
The Case of the Baffling Bialy by Rabbi Avrohom Stone
Shaimos - A Brand Name That Has Withstood Time by Rabbi Yisroel Bendelstein
When Dreams Become Reality: The Marvels of OU Special Productions by Rabbi David Bistricer
Michigan Dessert Corporation

Summer 2004

The Sleeping Giant: The Kosher for Passover Market by Rabbi Yaakov Luban
Keeping Up with Passover Trenditions by Bayla Sheva Brenner
Not a Half-Baked Idea: Baking for Passover Offers Tasty Rewards by Rabbi David Bistricer
The Kosher for Passover Snack: A Rarity No More by Rabbi Dov Schreier
Meeting the Challenge of Certifying Flavors for Pesach by Rabbi Nathan Neuberger
A Chemical Reaction at Passover by Rabbi Eliyahu W. Ferrell
Behind the Chometz-Free Certification by Rabbi Avraham L. Juravel
Continuing a Kosher Tradition... Bumble Bee Seafoods Offers Prime Fillet Kosher for Passover Solid White Albacore by Jennifer Hayes
The Modern Passover Marketing Story by Menachem Lubinsky
The Big Three - For Generations, These Firms Have Defines Kosher for Passover Food by Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran
How Our Seafood Producers Navigate the Waters of kosher for Passover Supervision by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg
With a Keen Eye Towards the U.S. Kosher Consumer Marketplace, Israel's Tnuva Dairy Giant Initiates Massive Preparations for Passover by Shlomo Stephens
A Real Tear Jerker: Here's the Story of the Relationship Between the OU & Gold's Horseradish by Marc Gold
Is there a Doctor in the House? Dr. Praeger is on Call, During the Year and at Passover by Rabbi David Bistricer
MilMar's Marvelous Meals
Ever Hear of Pasta Ice Cream? Why Dairy Products Must Be Kosher for Passover by Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
From Around the World to Your Table: Wine this Passover is Different From All Others by Bayla Sheva Brenner
Glad Tidings from the World of Plastic Wraps
Making a Date for Passover by Rabbi Binyamin Kaplan
A Special Concern for Wheat Derivatives by Rabbi Gavriel Price

Summer 2004

No Shortcuts for This Shortbread
Making Fruit Jelly Kosher: It’s Easier Than Ever by Rabbi Gavriel Price
The Quest for Perfection at Sarabeth’s Kitchen
Clearbrook Farms - “Taste Them Once, Be Spoiled for Life.”
This Just In: OU News Roundup by Rabbi Avrohom Stone
The OU Meets the Challenge of Certifying the Beverage Industry by Rabbi Zvi Goodman
Putting Your New Beverages on the Fast Track to Approval by Rabbi Yitzchok Mincer
AriZona Beverages’ Formula for Success: Quality, Packaging, OU Certification
An Impulse to Succeed: The Energy Drink Becomes OU Kosher by Erin Gabrielle Hecht
Water+Vitamins+Nutrients+OU kosher=Vitaminwater!
Not a Bolt from the Blue: When Bolthouse Farms Opened a Juice Product Line, It Called on the OU by Bryan Reese
The Rabbi Stone Road Show Goes to Texas: Wowing Them at Best Brands Dallas by Al Turkot
Rabbi Stone’s Road Show or, Why Your Kosher Product Is Kosher by Shayndi Raice
Walt Disney....Hanna/Barbera...Rabbi Ossey...Rabbi Ossey???!!!
Food for Thought on Campus: An OU Program Brings a Busy Kosher Kitchen to Cornell by Rabbi Joshua Ross
JLIC: A Home Away From Home For Jewish Students at Cornell and Eight Other Campuses
Helping Santini Foods Meet a New Challenge Helping Santini Foods Meet a New Challenge
Kosherfest 2004 Brings Many Visitors to OU Booth
The Seventh Annual ASK OU Program

Summer 2004

Dawn Food Products: Where Bakery Success Starts
by Jim Peacock

Kosher Pizza – Cardboard No More
by Rabbi Andrew Gordimer

A Pizza Success Story: Bake it and They Will Come
Mendelsohn’s Pizza

Look up in the Sky: It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane – No, It’s a Kosher Pizza
Jerusalem II Flying Pizza

An Upscale Brand of Pizza

Nothing to Sneeze at: Orthodox Union Certifies Triaminic Pediatric Cold/Cough/Allergy Liquid Medications as Kosher
by Stephen Steiner

Mesorah: OU Conference Explores the Traditions of Rare Animals and Birds
by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg

Protecting the Symbol: Tracking Down the Unauthorized OU
by Howard Katzenstein

Salad Days for the OU
by Rabbi David Bistricer

OU Companies Speak:
Walden Farms
Nature’s Choice

OU Joins in Aquathin Corp. USA’s Silver Anniversary Celebration

Ancient Bowfin Presents New Ich-Theological Conundrum
by Jan Jeffrey Hoover

Dawn and the OU: 2 Perfect ‘Matching Circles’
by Yisroel Bendelstein

Keeping Our Food Products Kosher for the Right Reasons
by Jim Peacock

Nestlé USA: Providing Good Food for Kosher Life
by Nicole Turner-Stone
Behind the Scenes of the Amazing(ly secret) World of a Flavor Company
by Rabbi Nathan Neuberger
A Primer on Flavors and the Kosher Process: Yummy, This Tastes Good!
by Ilana Kurts
Mother Murphy’s Laboratories
by Pamela Murphy
S&S Flavors
Gold Coast Ingredients
Test Your Kosher IQ
by Rabbi Avrohom Stone
We Mourn Rabbi Syshe Heschel
Let’s Talk More Turkey
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Nestlé And The OU: A Relationship Built On Communications

The Entenmann’s-Bakers Treat Connection: A Tale of Rugelach, Philanthropy & OU Kosher
If You Provide Kosher Food, Let the Consumer Know: ‘Your Meal Is Waiting’
by Elie Rosenfeld
Your LOC: What’s in a Name? Plenty.
Resources for Success
By Rabbi Reuven Nathanson

Summer 2004

Eating their Wheaties:
OU Certification Helps Propel General Mills To New Heights In Food Sales

Making the Case for Kosher Casein in the Former USSR

Erie Food International
by Glenn Motsinger

American Casein Company
by Jane Macey

From Alaska – the Call of the Wild (Salmon)
by Rabbi Chaim Goldberg

Specialty Needs for Kosher Processing
by: Dennis Martin, Director, Food Industry Division, ChemTreat, Inc.

Leads to Industrial Innovation

ON THE ROAD – The Wondrous World of New Jersey
by Rabbi Avrohom Stone

Jewish Pastry Thrives Under Muslim Owner Choosing Kosher Route Paid Off For Chewy’s Rugelach
by Asher Price

The Quest: Achieving OU Certification at Morgan Foods, Inc.

OU-P: The Letters That Lead to Higher Sales
by Rabbi Yonatan Kaganoff

An American (Dairy) Revolution?

Summer 2004

It’s Not Easy Being Green
The Success Story of Hanover Foods

RMC Numbers on Your Schedule A– for Better OU Service

A Fish Story
The OU Challenges of the Sea

Kosher Meets Moby Dick
Issues in Kosher Shipping

Always Check the Label
A Review of Schedule B

No Gulf in Kosher Observance:
How an OU Expert Helped the Troops in Iraq Observe the Dietary Laws /li>
A&B Gefilte Fish –
No Labor, No Preservatives

How to Get Kosher Certification
The process takes time, but the benefits are worth it

Summer 2004

Bumble Bee Seafood’s
A Kosher Tradition

It’s Your Spud
How to keep your potatoes Kosher

Dear Rabbi
Understanding the Fine Print of Schedule A

Simply the Best

Lets Get Chemical
Kosher Issues in the Chemical World

Acidulants:
OU CertifiedShellfish-Free Glucosamine

Telling It Like It Is

Let’s Talk Turkey

Carriage House Companies, Inc.
Appreciates OU RFR

Summer 2004

Thomas’® and Entenmann’s
A Kosher Tradition

Industry Trends Bagels, Biscuits and other Baked Goods
How to Keep Your Cakes Kosher

Best Brands Corp.
Innovated Products & Service. Bottom Line Results

Pas Yisrael Certification
Important Component for Business Growth

Creating the “Gold Standard” for Butter
A Kosher Clarifier

Say Cheese!
An in-depth look at the kosher dairy world

KOSHER CERTIFICATION
It Makes Good $ense

On the Road with the OU – Oil, Oil, Toil and Kashruth
An inside look at the RFR’s life in Malaysia and Indonesia

Summer 2004

What are you, Chicken?
An Inside Look at Empire

Please Pass the Pareve – A Light-Hearted Look At Pareve Certification
How becoming pareve can broaden your consumer base – A Pareve Primer – Kosher Pareve- A World of Opportunity – Another Lost Pareve Product – Miss Meringue Cookies Become OU Pareve

Striving to Create an Honest Tea Experience

Are your Enzymes Edible? – MSG, It’s Not Just A Garden
Industry Issues examines concerns in the biotechnology industry – How I Keep it Perfectly Kosher at Northwestern Foods – City Harvest – An Opportunity to Help in New York City

On the Road with the OU – The Golden State At A Glance
An inside look at an RFR’s life in California

Summer 2004

Coca Cola – A Very Trusting Relationship

0n the Road with the OU – Behind The Bamboo Curtain:
An inside look at an RFR’s life in China

Days of Wine & Chocolate – Life’s Little Luxuries Loom Large:
The art of kosher wine & chololate reaches new heights

Snack Attack! – Snazzy, Salty Foods—More Popular Than Ever – Industry Issues examines concerns in the snack market niche. – Nabisco Putting the KOSHER in Kookie

Lactic Acid Approved For Passover

Glossary of Kosher Concepts & Terms
Prepared for the Oleochemical Industry

Summer 2004

At Heinz, Kosher Shines

All the Whey – Important New Industry Standards

Understanding the Cream of the Crop

OU Companies Speak – JB Laboratories

On the Road with the OU
Keeping it Kosher in India RFR on the Sub-Continent

Attention Marketing VPs and Marketing Reps.
You’ve Got the OU… Now What?

Kosher and Spice – But is Everything Nice?
New Column Tackles Industry Issues

Friends, Rabbis and Companies – Lend Me Your Ears

Summer 2004

Life Is Like A Box Of Godiva Chocolates:
You Always Know What You’re Gonna Get…Quality

Nantucket Nectars: Loyal To Quality And The OU

To Market, to Market – Engendering Product Loyalty Recognizing the value of the OU symbol

On the Road with the OU:
Keeping it Kosher in Japan – An inside look at an RFR’s daily life

Tips on Getting Your LOC

Tetra Pak’s Remedy
A 2-Day Seminar to Simplify your Life Making equipment and systems kosher adaptable

Summer 2004

Behind the Union Symbol is the highly acclaimed quarterly magazine of the Orthodox Union’s Kashruth Division for current and prospective Kosher certified companies.

The publication, which in only a few years has become the premiere kosher trade magazine, features technical articles on the scientific and halachic aspects of kosher food production, company profiles, tips on maximizing a kosher program, as well as sometimes whimsical and always fascinating articles on how the OU’s rabbinic experts bring their skills to more than 6,000 plants in 77 countries worldwide. A must read for food executives, marketing officers and plant personnel.

Behind the Union Symbol is read by over 6,000 food executives and reaches 6,000 food manufacturing facilities worldwide, as well as food industry leaders, editors and analysts.

Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Safran, the OU’s Vice President of Marketing and Communication and Senior Rabbinic Coordinator founded Behind the Union Symbol and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief.

You can view and download current and previous issues in pdf format by using the dropdown menu below and you can request a free subscription to Behind the Union Symbol by calling 212-613-8346 or 8238 or by emailng Safrane@ou.org.

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