ב"ה KISLEV 5773 חנוכה תשע"ג CERTIFIED SOUL NUTRITION Wishing You a Happy Chanukah! א פריילעכן חנוכה! FEEDBACK 3 SHARE YOUR SPIRIT Share Your Spirit 4 QUESTIONS FOR THE ~ Dear Reader, hile I was home with my Dear Kosher Spirit, HEALTHY SPIRIT family, taking cover from 5 How Is Your Child Smart? I loved reading “Keeping Kosher in Wthe super Hurricane Buckingham Palace”. Thank you for KEEPING KOSHER IN... Sandy, I was surprised to see that the sharing this interesting article with us GREECE U.S. Postal Service delivered the mail fans of all things royal. 6 By Chanie Brod right to my door. I realized the truth of the motto, “Neither snow, nor rain, SAVOR THE FLAVOR nor heat, nor gloom of night stays Dear Kosher Spirit, KASHRUS AND THE FLAVOR 8 INDUSTRY these couriers from the swift comple- Thank you for the recent Kosher By Rabbi Elisha Rubin tion of their appointed rounds.” Then Spirit, it’s very exciting and it dawned on me that while most of informative. The picture on page 16 WHAT’S SO COMPLICATED us are taking a step back from our daily work schedule, taking a struck a chord with me and I’d like to ABOUT CHOCOLATE? day off or working from home, there are people who can’t and hang it in my sukkah. I was wondering 12 By Rabbi Don Yoel Levy won’t break from their critical and vital work—firefighters, po- if you could send it to me by e-mail. licemen and women, emergency medical technicians and rescue ANNUAL MASHGIACH Thank you, 14 CONFERENCE 2012 operators all immediately come to mind. Not only are they not stepping back, they are working even harder! YS, Monsey CHANUKAH RECIPE And perhaps in some small way, in the spiritual realm, there is 17 Basil Pea Risotto another group of people that get too little recognition for their 191 WAYS ~ KOSHERED work in the trenches and doing their job in snow or rain or 50 18 YOUR WORLD IN 2012 mile per hour winds—they are the kosher supervisors and ~ Certified “SportStrings” Tzitzis have been receiving compliments New Companies mashgichim, without whom a kosher production would not be from around the world since their debut last year! possible. While the banks and government offices were all closed WHO’S BEHIND THE ~ and the skies dimmed with hurricane clouds, the lights were “Super. It’s got a great feel” Interview with Rabbi burning brightly at the ~ headquarters in Brooklyn, New York 20 Yeshaya Prizant A lawyer from New Jersey and our internet servers were at full capacity with office person- CHASSIDIC INSIGHTS nel logging in and just doing their jobs. “Ari has not taken them off yet. 24 hours and THE WISDOM OF THE Perhaps ~ Kosher Certification should adapt the same motto counting.” 22 CHANUKAH LIGHTS as the U.S. Postal Service: Father of a basketball player Compiled by Dina Fraenkel “Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these SOUL NUTRITION rabbis from the uncompromising supervision of their appointed “They are amazing.” kosher productions.” 23 Young professional in Cleveland, OH In this issue you will read about the annual ~ Kosher “I have now been wearing the Sport Strings Tzitzit Mashgichim conference and get to know some of these wonderful for a couple weeks. They are very well made, and “I am the father of Eli. I want to tell you a quick rabbis that span the globe just to ensure that the food that is hold up well and keep pretty cool even under the hot story—last night Eli played basketball at our local served at your table and mine is kosher without compromise. KOSHER SPIRIT Chanukah 5773 sun here in Afghanistan. I am very pleased! Thank yeshiva. He used the Sport Strings tzizit, which is the EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: you so much and keep up the great work!!” first time he wore tzizit while playing basketball. In Rabbi Chaim Fogelman Wishing you a Freilichen Chanukah, David D. Stanton addition, he normally doesn't wear a yarmulke when EDITOR: Rabbi Chaim Fogelman US Contractor—Deployed, Afghanistan he plays. Last night before we went to the Yeshiva, he Dovi Scheiner Editor-in-Chief said, ‘I took clips because I don't think it is right to ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Dina Fraenkel “My son absolutely loves the tzizit—he said he is play basketball in the Yeshiva without wearing a DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY: never taking them off except to shower—and he yarmulke.’ follow us on Facebook Spotlight Design facebook.com/okkosher wants to sleep in them. I told him to take them off There is no doubt in my mind that it is your influence that made him decide to wear a yarmulke.” We welcome your comments, before bed…turns out he slept in them!!!” submissions and letters to the editor. A mother in Teaneck, NJ A father in Connecticut Mail: 391 Troy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11213 Scan the QR code with your smartphone to Email: [email protected] receive a PDF subscription © 2012. No portion of this publication may to Kosher Spirit be reprinted without written consent from the publisher. www.KosherSpirit.com 3 The ~ receives many letters/emails with kosher ~~ Chanukah has the same root as the חנוכה ...questions word chinuch —to educate. Parents חינוך and teachers have always known that children learn in different ways. An activity that captivates one child will how Is leave another child uninterested, and a method that reaches one child may lose another. The Torah calls this method Your Child “Chanoch le’naar al pi darko. Teach every child according to his way.” Reaching a child according to their individual Smart? intelligence and learning style helps the Dear Kosher Spirit, The ~ responds: child learn best and reach his or her In a previous issue of Kosher epending on where you are in the highest potential. Spirit (Tishrei 5768), the article world, fish names are surprisingly The 8 Intelligences: Dinterchangeable! In one country a on kosher fish mentioned that not certain fish is called “tuna”, while in LINGUISTIC: Sensitivity to the meaning and order NATURALIST: Recognizing and classifying all varieties of tuna are kosher. another country it is called “mackerel”. of words. Expanded vocabulary and usually like to the numerous species, the flora and fauna, of an How is this possible and what This is especially common in the “cod” 1 tell jokes, riddles or puns. They also like to read, 6 environment. These kids like to spend time family of fish. varieties are not kosher? write, tell stories and play word games. outdoors observing plants, collecting rocks and Tuna, mackerel and kingfish are part of LOGICAL-MATHEMATICAL: These learners catching insects, and are attuned to relationships the same family of fish species. A specific enjoy working with numbers, want to know how in nature. mackerel, called “snake mackerel” is NOT 2 things work, ask lots of questions, and collect items INTERPERSONAL: Understanding people a kosher fish, but depending on the and keep track of their collections. and relationships. These children have many country, it may be referred to as BODILY-KINESTHETIC: Kinesthetic learners 7 friends and tend to mediate between them and “mackerel” or “tuna”. In addition, many enjoy sports and love to be physically active. They be excellent team players. fish in the tuna, mackerel and kingfish 3 tend to use body language, dance, act or engage in INTRAPERSONAL: family have scales that fall off as the fish mime. leaves the water, making it very difficult The ability to use one’s MUSICAL: to discern the kosher status of the fish. Sensitivity to pitch, melody, rhythm 8 emotional life as a means and tone. These children love to listen to and play to understand oneself and Therefore it is important to buy only tuna 4 music, sing, hum, move to the rhythm, and create others. Children with this with a reliable kosher certification and and replicate tunes. type of intelligence control mashgiach temidi. SPATIAL: The ability to perceive the world their own feelings and accurately and to re-create or transform aspects of moods and often observe 5 that world. These learners doodle, paint, draw and and listen. They do best build with blocks. They also enjoy looking at maps, when working alone. doing puzzles and mazes, and taking things apart and putting them back together. The easiest way to discover a child’s learning style is to ence points to another area of intelligence. Most children observe the child at play. Does the child study objects in- have multiple intelligences and many children display a tently, or feel them with the hands? Does the child prefer preference for a particular style by age 2. to exercise his body rather than play with toys? Does the Teaching a child “al pi darko” as our Torah teaches al- child focus well on a book, prefer the pictures, enjoy the lows for the mastery of new skills while minimizing frus- sound of your voice as you read the words? Each prefer- tration and developing a lifelong love of learning. 4 www.OK.org www.KosherSpirit.com 5 he year was 167 BCE. The place, Judea. Under the members of the European Union, prospect for those considering adopt- Friday nights it hosts Shabbat dinners. spread the light of Chanukah through- leadership of King Antiochus, some forty thousand transporting the food is often much ing the laws of kashrus, and so the Other times it hosts kosher cooking out Greece. Several years ago, Rabbi TSyrian Greek soldiers were sharpening their spears faster since they don’t have to pass mini market was opened.