Oh no! A few minutes after placing teriyaki sauce on raw fish, our questioner noticed it was not certified kosher. He immediately washed off the

Anchovies and Meat Many people enjoy adding Worcestershire sauce to meat since it adds a unique spicy taste. Anchovies (a kosher fish), an ingredient in

Yishun Yud Bet Chodesh for Non-Kosher Wine TABC Talmidim Eli Lefkowitz and Ari Herman posed an interesting question. We learned that Ashkenazim follow the Chochmat

The Case Rav Hershel Schachter (Nefesh HaRav pages 228-229) relates a fascinating episode involving Rav Chaim Soloveitchik’s incisive resolution of a food mix-up at his

Rav Hershel Schach­ter famously questions the permissibility of all contemporary commercial milk, but the overwhelming majority of poskim, including Rav Asher Weiss (Teshuvot Minchat Asher

Richard Schulz And Aggada One of the many special things about Richard Schulz was his love and attention to the Gemara’s Aggadic tales. He even

Sous-vide cooking involves placing food in a plastic pouch and cooking in a water bath at a precisely regulated temperature. A video explaining how sous-vide

A Most Welcome Development! Lab-grown meat is the most exciting development in the kosher food industry in recent years (besides the many environmental benefits the

Benefitting from Meat and Milk Often, pet food contains a mixture of meat and milk. Since the Torah forbids not only cooking and eating milk

The divergent Halachic practices of the three major groups of Jews, Sepharadim, Ashkenazim and Teimonim, emerge to a great extent from differing Halachic traditions.  

The prohibition of basar v’chalav (meat and milk) constantly permeates a Jewish home, perhaps more than any other mitzvah or prohibition. Let us explore possible