Hotel Breakfast – doing it right

Face it, we all love hotel breakfast. So, how do we do it right and follow Halachah completely. Let’s start with the breads. Basic Italian and French breads don’t pose a problem. Bagels, pita, English muffins are good. There are sometimes fancier breads that contain...

Subway – how to eat there

Ok. So, everyone has been asking about eating at Subway Restaurants, yet still be observing the kashrut laws. It sort of became a signature heter of ours, It’s very simple. Each of us has the ability to ensure that we don’t eat Treif without needing a...

The story of the cheeses

Normally, cheese is under a rabbinical ruling (gezera) to require supervision, and it would not be sufficient to just know that there’s no non-kosher ingredients. Over twenty years ago, my father permitted many types of cheeses to be similar to yogurt and sour cream,...

A piece I wrote many years ago…

Judaism: What exactly are we selling here? by Aaron Abadi Take a 36 year old guy named Douglas Weisensteinberg who lives in Nebraska. He works at the GM plant there, on the assembly line. He knows that his family is Jewish and that there were these laws that they...