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OU Kosher Israel Guide the World’S Leading Kashrut ORGANIZATION 5774 - 2013/14 Israel Experience Guide the GUIDE 3 5774 OU Kosher Israel Guide THE WORLD’S LEADING KASHRUT ORGANIZATION 5774 - 2013/14 ISRAEL EXPERIENCE GUIDE DIRECTORY OU International TABLE OF CONTENTS Martin Nachimson - President Harvey Blitz - Chairman Kashrut Commission Rabbi Kenneth Auman - Chairman Rabbinic Kashrut Commision THE GUIDE Rabbi Menachem Genack - CEO Rabbi Moshe Elefant - COO Rabbi Nachum Rabinowitz - Senior Rabbinic Coordinator Rabbi Chaim Yisroel Belsky, Rabbi Hershel Schachter - Halachic Consultants Rabbi Eli Gerstein - Halachic Coordinator 04 08 10 Rabbi Dovid Bistricer - US Rabbinic Coordinator for Israel OU KOSHER MEHADRIN: EATING ISRAEL GUIDE WHY & WHAT? OUT THE GUIDE OU Israel Rabbi Yitzchak Fund - President Rabbi Avi Berman - Executive Director OU Israel Natan Shor - Managing Director OU Israel David Katz - Chief Financial Officer OU Israel Rabbi Y. Dov Krakowski - Kashrut Rav Hamachshir Rabbi Yossi Tirnauer - Kashrut Director Rachel Stewart - Kashrut Office Manager Contact Information (Have a Kashrut Question?) 12 16 22 Tel: - 02-5609122, Fax: - 02-5630061, Email: - [email protected] TRUMA & KASHRUT IN AWAY MA’ASER YOUR Dirah FROM HOME www.oukosher.org Tel: - 001-212-6138241, Fax: - 001-212-6130752, Email: - [email protected] GUIDE (AparTMENt) Zvi Volk - Editor/ OU Israel Yael Hauftmann - Graphic Designer/ OU Israel Orthodox Union - 11 Broadway New York, NY 10004, USA OU KASHRUT is a community based organization. We are a project of the Orthodox Union. We are here to provide our communities with Kosher food. As such we feel an obligation to educate our communities regarding all aspects of Kashrus. If your Yeshiva, Kollel, school, or Shul is interested in being educated do not hesitate to contact us. We will be more than happy to arrange all sorts of Kashrus seminars: from lectures, to hands on trips and more. 24 25 35 We can be contacted here in Israel at 02-560-9122, or by sending an email to [email protected] HONORING CHECK CHALLAH YOUR PARENTS FOR BUGS & ORLAH 2 5774 5774 3 OU Kosher Israel Guide Welcome to Eretz Yisroel! Kosher Israel Guide is that make kosher certification ou are fortunate The mitzvah of kashrus is more OUa joint effort of the OU essential even on produce. Yto have made complicated here, as there are Israel Center and OU Kosher. Both the wise choice many mitzvos that are unique THE GUIDE organizations understand This Guide also explains to come and to Eretz Yisroel. Even the fruit the complexities of the reasons for the learn Torah in and vegetables are clothed in kashrut in Israel. different levels of kosher Eretz Hakodesh. mitzvos. Additionally, the structure It is important to certification in Israel. See According to of kashrus supervision is very be aware that there the article Eating Out on some opinions coming here even complicated. Eating foods that temporarily fulfills an aspect of the are not permitted affect a person’s THE GUIDE are more aspects page10. to kosher food in mitzvah of Yishuv Eretz Yisroel. Other spiritual make-up and prevent him Israel than there are What this Guide is not opinions hold that the mitzvah of or her from being able to access elsewhere. intended to do is to Yishuv Eretz Yisroel is only fulfilled Torah knowledge and spirituality. It dictate what standards by permanently settling here. is of utmost importance that you are For example, outside of kashrut you should Nevertheless spending time here extra careful with the observance of Israel most fruits keep. Our intention may give you the sweet taste of Eretz of kashrus while you are here so and vegetables can be is to help you Yisroel that will draw you to return to as not to diminish the spiritual considered kosher. In understand and navigate live here. According to the Midrash opportunities Eretz Yisroel provides. Israel there are agricultural mitzvot the Israeli kosher marketplace. (Socher Tov Tehillim 15), “If you want I commend the Orthodox Union and to see the Shechinah in this world, its Israel Kashrus department headed If your Yeshiva, Kollel, school or occupy yourself with Torah in Eretz by Rabbi Yissachar Krakowski shlit”a Shul is interested please feel free Yisroel.” You have the opportunity for providing this in depth guide to to contact us to arrange kashrut to learn Torah in the holiness of this kashrus in Eretz Yisroel. It will enable seminars, lectures and field trips. environment. you to be an informed consumer and However, along with this merit and enjoy the delicious produce and foods Rabbi Y. Dov Krakowski opportunity comes responsibility. of Eretz Yisroel in purity and holiness. Rav Hamachshir, OU Kashrut Israel You must realize that you are in the Tel: 02 560 9122 King’s palace and must conduct With Torah blessings, Fax: 02 563 0061 yourself accordingly. Hence, you Bracha v’Hatzlacha, [email protected] must be extra careful when observing the mitzvos in Eretz Yisroel. Rabbi Zev Leff 4 5774 5774 5 e at OU Kashrut urge you comprehensive kosher agency the Wpersonally to engage your rabbi. OU can offer first-hand information Contact for Kashrut Organizations Why? Can’t we just offer our re– about what happens in food We have listed most of the major Kashrut Organizations in Israel. commendations? manufacturing. This list is not to be understood as an endorsement by the OU. No, that is not Many issues THE GUIDE how halacha Engaging are clear cut and Agudat Yisrael – 02-538-5251 (office) 02-538-5145 (fax) works. You are have universally Badatz Mehadrin (R’ Avraham Rubin) – 08-939-0816 (office) 08-939-0818 (fax) beginning a year accepted Beit Yosef – 02-655-0550 (office) 02-02-651-0580 (fax) of growth in your Rabbi answers. In such Torah and Yirat cases, we do Belz – Machzikei Hadas – 02-501-6777 (office) 02-537-4001 (fax) Shamayim. An not hesitate to THE GUIDE Chatam Sofer Bnei Brak – 03-579-2601 (office) 03-579-5175 (fax) –offer our recom עשה לך רב essential part of this experience mendations. In Chatam Sofer Petach Tikvah – 03-931-7040 (office) 03-904-4440 (fax) will be based on other cases there Chief Rabbinate Fraud Division – 02-531-3163 (office) 02-531-3169 the relationships may be differing Chief Rabbinate Import Division – R’ Yitzchak HaCohen Arazi 02-531-3137 (office) 02- 02-537-7875 (fax) you forge with opinions among your Rabbanim contemporary Efrati, Rabbi Yosef Kashrut L’Mehadrin – 08-863-4225 (office) 08-859-2737 (fax) and mentors. poskim. Eida Chareidit – 02-670-0205 (office) 02-625-4975 (fax) The We strongly application urge you to Eida Chareidit Sephardi – 02-582-0755 (office) 02-532-6180 (fax) of halacha familiarize Jerusalem Rabbinate Kashrut Dept – 02-621-4888 (office) 02- 02-621-4832 (fax) in our lives is yourself with Kehillat Ye’rei’im – 02-532-2101 (office) 02-581-5966 (fax) not a cold and your family’s impersonal and your Landau, R’ Yehuda Leib (Bnei Brak) – 03-618-2647 (office) 03-579-8967 (fax) process. Part of community’s OU Posek Rabbi Hershel Schachter asking Nvei Tzion – 03-676-4494 (office) 03-674-2883 (fax) traditions. We זצ”ל the OU’s mandate Shailos to Rav Eliyashiv is to serve the also urge you OK Israel - 03-909-5848 (office) 03-909-5877 (fax) broad Jewish to aseh l’cha OU Israel – 02-560-9122 (office) 02-563-0061 (fax) community. Therefore, we cannot Rav -- to develop a relationship with Sheirit Yisrael – 03-677-3330 (office) 03-677-7030 (fax) give blanket answers to questions a rabbi familiar with your situation, that may have a variety of answers. your community’s expectations and Yoreh Deah (Rav Machpud) – 03-676-5888(office) 050-411-9007 (fax) As the world’s largest and most with halacha in general. 6 5774 5774 7 hen you come to Israel for kashrut are discussed, there are that the Jerusalem Rabbinate lechatchila. It is with great pride that Wa year or two, kashrut can numerous cases where there is a Kashrut division was not operating we are confident in saying that we be very confusing. When you live doubt whether something makes on a high enough level, but not meet the highest standards of kashrut abroad there food forbidden. because there were items that he in all areas. We are also setting the may be The Shulchan deemed not kosher. Rather, he felt standards in many areas. THE GUIDE differences in Aruch tells us there were many instances where they There are a variety of hashgachot the standards that to begin with were relying on opinions that were in Israel and they have different of various Mehadrin: (l’chatchila), one maikel (lenient) when most opinions standards. To kashrut should not do were not. He also found that there determine agencies, but Why && What? anything that were products that once they were whether a for the most makes food not produced they were permissible. But particular THE GUIDE part the word kosher. But if they should not have been produced hashgacha is Kosher means it was already in such a way in the first place. suitable for Kosher. However in Israel there done (bedieved), sometimes it is He decided that for the secular you and your seems to be a double standard: permissible. segments of society it was better that standards, Mehadrin and non-Mehadrin. In kashrut, just like in all areas of there should be extremely lenient talk to a rabbi Outside of Israel a hashgacha might halacha, there are many rabbinic kashrut. As a result he defined kosher or teacher print a chumra next to its symbol disputes as to whether certain to mean kosher lekula (in a lenient you trust. like Chalov Yisrael or Pat Yisrael. things are permissible.
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