Tag: treife
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Food & Kashrus
Is Matisyahu’s music kosher?
Hey Hesh, Been loving your responses to some of the "fan mail" you get and I was wondering if you might have any insight…
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Food & Kashrus
Is it kosher? Uh, it’s not recommended
I found myself faced with an incredible challenge yesterday, it was a lull at work and the chef offered to pay for starbucks if…
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December Dilemmas
Marrying a convert has its pluses: Christmas with the in-laws!
Let's face it, as an FFB I've been deprived of some pretty pivotal moments in life. My father never told me to use protection,…
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Food & Kashrus
Is a Safe-Treif Certification in the works?
Kashrut authorities have been able to make money on certifying all sorts of odd things that once never really needed a hechsher. We all…
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Food & Kashrus
Derech, schmerech. Pass the shrimps.
I heard there's a lot of hullabaloo around here about why people “go off the derech”, and anger, and backgrounds, and all kinds of…
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Food & Kashrus
Swine Flu is not kosher we call it the Mexican Flu
Israeli Health Minister Yakov Litzman has been updating a nervous public on the swine flu epidemic - and he started by renaming it for…