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Harry H. Beren OU Kosher Summer Program Now Accepting Applications
Harry H. Beren OU Kosher Summer Program, which trains next generation of Kashrut professionals, now accepting applications.
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OU Kosher Announces Second Annual OU Kosher Essay Contest Winners
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What’s Kosher for Passover? OU’s Annual Passover Guide in a Colorful New Format Has all the Answer
In a colorful new format and as usual crammed full of information to facilitate Passover preparation and observance, the OU Guide to Passover 5768/2008 is now available. An annual special issue of OU’s Jewish Action magazine, the Guide has been redesigned and filled with color features as well as advertising.
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A Milestone for Kosher Tidbits: OU Series Announces its 100th Program
Just in time for the Torah portion of Shemini, to be read March 29 and which introduces the laws of kosher, OU Kosher will celebrate the production of the 100th and 101st Kosher Tidbits, the comprehensive series of 15-minute broadcasts by OU experts on a wide variety of kosher topics, and heard on http://www.ouradio.org. The century mark is reached by a program on Shemittah, the sabbatical year in Israel, recorded by Rabbi Moshe Elefant, Chief Operating Officer of OU Kosher; and the 101st on non-kosher kitchens, by Rabbi Eliyahu Ferrell, Rabbinic Consultant.
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Orthodox Union Announces Newly Certified Kosher for Passover Products
Once again this year, for the festive holiday of Passover, the Orthodox Union has made available a list of newly certified OU Kosher for Passover products.
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OU Kosher Presents Q&A Pre-Passover Webcast on OU Website, March 27
In anticipation of the Passover holiday and its complexities, the Orthodox Union Kosher Division announced today that it will present a pre-Passover webcast on the OU website, http://www.ou.org/ouradio/webcast, to clarify questions and concerns people are facing in their preparations. It will be held Thursday, March 27, at 3:00 p.m. with log-on time at 2:45 p.m. The webcast is part of OU Kosher’s continued and ever-growing educational outreach to the community, which includes the OU Kosher Coming to Schools and Communities programs and the Kosher Tidbits postings on OU Radio, http://www.ouradio.org.
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Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky Visits OU Headquarters as Part of New Harry H. Beren ASK OU Kashrut Program
Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rosh Yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, visited OU headquarters in New York this week to give words of chizuk to an audience of OU Kashrut senior rabbis.
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Huge Lakewood Gathering Crowns New OU Kosher Initiative
With the ever-growing focus on kosher food and the intricacies of kashrut, the Orthodox Union, the premier institution in kosher certification, recently established the Harry H. Beren ASK OUTREACH Initiative to provide kosher education to yeshiva students in the convenience of their yeshivot, kollelim and semicha programs. Its latest crown in a series of presentations, which also included Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, Yeshiva Ohr Hachaim, and Mesivtah Tiferes Yerusholayim, drew close to 1,000 fascinated members of the Lakewood, NJ, community, making it a standing-room only event. It was held in Khal Zhichron Yaakov synagogue, with the haskomoh of the Beth Medrash Govoha Roshei HaYeshiva and the endorsement of the KCL—Vaad HaKashrut of Lakewood.
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OU Certified Kosher Subway Restaurant to Open in Wall Street Area in March
The OU is supervising the kashrut certification of the newest Subway to become kosher, located not far from Wall Street, beginning from Wednesday, March 5. Significantly, the restaurant is located within walking distance of the OU’s New York headquarters. By becoming kosher, the chain is capitalizing on the newest trend in food. With the number of kosher food consumers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, growing by leaps and bounds, the Subway restaurant chain has hopped on the bandwagon and is opening Subway restaurants that are fully-certified as kosher. When Subway’s initial venture of opening a kosher Subway in Cleveland, Ohio in 2006 met with success, additional kosher stores were added in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Kansas City, KS. A future location is under construction in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York.
