Eating Italian
Aaron Abadi Here’s a typical Italian menu. The biggest issues at Italian restaurants are confirming that everything that you will eat is vegetarian, especially the renet in the cheese. You can ask…
Kashrut
Eating Fish out
Most observant jews that travel on business will eat fish at restaurants, often without knowing how to do it right and thus with a side order of guilt. Here are…
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…
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.…
Non-kosher restaurants
Sefardi Sefardi Can you provide us with some general guidelines regarding eating at non-kosher restaurants? What kinda of things can we order? For example, vegetable soup, fish, pasta, salad etc. I know…
Eating out
Can you provide us with general guidelines on what can be ordered at a non-kosher restaurant? For example, soups, pasta, fish, salads, etc.? I know this is a vague question…
Gelatin in vitamin capsules
Dana Friedman In Nature’s Bounty Vitamin D Gel-caps: “Soybean Oil, Gelatin, Vegetable Glycerin, Corn Oil”. What say you? Thanks
Trader Joe’s dip
I H Is this kosher?
Ordering Sushi 🍣
Jacob Chereskin Rabbi, I’ve heard conflicting accounts of how one can order and consume sushi in a non-kasher restaurant. Could you please clarify how one can do so?
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…
Dishwasher for meat & dairy
davidC Must I have separate dishwashers for meat and dairy?