Announcements
OU Kosher Beer Announcement
New ingredients and modern brewing processes have changed the kosher status of beer. OU Kosher COO Rabbi Moshe Elefant explains why the OU, together with other major kashrut certification agencies, has updated its policies on how restaurants serve kosher beer. View the list of nearly 1,000 currently certifies beers and breweries.
OU Kosher Launches Innovative App to Streamline RFR Field Inspections
OU Kosher has developed a new mobile application designed to enhance and simplify the field inspection process for Rabbinic Field Representatives (RFRs). Recognizing the unique challenges faced by RFRs, especially in plants with limited or no Wi-Fi connectivity, this app offers a suite of features tailored to streamline inspection reporting and improve overall efficiency. 9/3/24: […]
Walmart’s Bettergoods: Highlighting OU Kosher Certification
Walmart’s new store brand, Bettergoods, is its most extensive private-label food launch in decades. Featuring a diverse range of products, including seasonings, plant-based cheeses, and Italian bronze-cut pasta, Bettergoods currently includes about 80 OU kosher-certified products, with plans for this number to grow. The prevalence of OU kosher-certified products among the store brands of major […]
Where Medicine Meets Passover: OU Kosher, NYMC and Touro Host Groundbreaking Webinar
OU Kosher, New York Medical College (NYMC), and Touro University came together to host a groundbreaking webinar titled “Medicine meets Passover: what clinicians and rabbis need to know.” The event, which took place on Tuesday, March 21, 2023, attracted 350 participants from across the globe, including the United States, Canada, Israel, Germany, Australia, and Belgium. […]
GE Appliances Completes Transition of Refrigerators to OU Kosher/CRC Certification
Top-Freezer Refrigerators Will Now be Certified with Built-in Enhanced Shabbos Mode through Collaboration between Kosher Certifying Agencies and Zman Technologies GE Appliances (GEA) has begun production of a new line of OU Kosher/CRC Hisachdus–certified top-freezer refrigerators with manually operated, built-in Enhanced Shabbos Mode (ESM). These new appliances will allow users to easily turn ESM […]
OU Kosher Halacha Yomis Email Series
It is with great excitement that we present to the general public, OU Kosher Halacha Yomis. We believe that this feature will be of great value and importance to Klal Yisroel. At the same time, we launch this new endeavor during a week of Shiva, as we mourn the passing of Moreinu Virabeinu, Harav Hagoan, […]
OU KOSHER Returns To Brooklyn With Program At Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin Featuring Rabbis Genack, Elefant and Fuchs: Bedikas Toyloim Guide to be Distributed
Orthodox Union kashrus experts will return to Brooklyn on Sunday evening January 3, 2016 to provide an expected large crowd of men and women with a high-level shiur on various aspects of kashrus. The program, one in a continuing series of Harry H. Beren ASK OU OUTREACH sessions, will be held at 8:00 p.m. at […]
Boca Raton ASK OU Event Coming Up
Boca Raton Synagogue presents in conjunction with OU Community Services and ASK OU OUTREACH a Community Kashrus Event. Sunday, Feb, 08, 2015 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM 9:30 AM What Could Be Wrong With… Rabbi Moshe Elefant COO and Executive Rabbinic Coordinator 10:30 AM Eating Out – What Could Be The Problem? Rabbi Yaakov Luban […]
Kosher Around the Globe
What do Paris, New York and Mexico have in common? Answer – kosher certification! Kosher certification has had steady growth over the past twenty years, by an average rate of 15 percent a year internationally. With thousands of products becoming kosher each year, the kosher consumer has choices that were not available to our parents and grandparents fifty years ago.
Gatorade Announces OU Kosher Certified Products
Gatorade partners with Orthodox Union to kosher certify Gatorade Thirst Quencher® and G2®