APRIL 2015 I v"ga, ixhb COR - KASHRUTH COUNCIL OF CANADA PASSOVER 2015 v"ga, jxp RABBINICAL VAAD HAKASHRUTH Rabbi Yacov Felder, Chairman Rabbi Yitzchok Kerzner, Chairman Emeritus Rabbi Amram Assayag Rabbi Avraham Bartfeld KASHRUTH COUNCIL STAFF Rabbi Shlomo Bixenspanner Rabbi Yacov Felder, Chairman, Rabbi Shlomo Gemara Rabbinical Vaad Hakashruth Rabbi Ovadia Haboucha Rabbi Sholom H. Adler, Director of Industrial Kosher, Kashrus Rabbi Yossel Kanofsky Administrator Rabbi Mendel Kaplan Rabbi Tsvi Heber, Director of Rabbi Uri Kaufman Community Kosher Rabbi Daniel Korobkin Rabbi Yosef Oziel, Rabbinic Liaison Rabbi Chaim Kulik Richard Rabkin, Managing Director Rabbi Yisroel Landa Jay Spitzer, Director of Operations Rabbi Rafi Lipner Rabbi Avrohom Lowinger, Rabbinic Rabbi Moshe Lowy Coordinator Rabbi Yirmiya Milevsky Rabbi Joshua Norman, ANSWERS Rabbi Yosef Oziel Rabbinic Coordinator Rabbi Dovid Pam Rabbi Dovid Rosen, Rabbinic Coordinator & APPETIZERS: Rabbi Meir Rosenberg Rabbi Yechiel Teichman, Rabbi Mordechai Scheiner Rabbinic Coordinator Rabbi Dovid Schochet Rabbi Binyomin Kreitman, Senior A PRE-PESACH COMMUNITY EVENT Rabbi Raphael Shmulewitz Rabbinic Field Representative Rabbi Chaim Strauchler Rabbi Nachman Ribiat, Senior Rabbi Yehoshua Weber Rabbinic Field Representative Rabbi Shlomo Bixenspanner, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18TH, 2015 KASHRUTH COUNCIL Shechita Division BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rabbi Mendel Brogna, Ira Marder, Chair Head Mashgiach Appetizers at 7:30 pm; Martin Maierovitz, z”l, Rabbi Mendel Gansburg, Answers at 8:00 pm Past Chair Senior Mashgiach Jack Feintuch, Vice Chair Moshe Mayer Mrvic, Senior Mashgiach Shimshon Gross, Vice Chair Petah Tikva - Chaim Ribiat, Junior Developer Naftali Winter, Vice Chair & Field Representative Anshe Castilla Congregation, Ari Messinger, Secretary Albina Aminob, Administrative Moshe Sigler, Treasurer Assistant & Customer Service 20 Danby Avenue, Toronto Moishe Kesten, Representative Assistant Treasurer Barbara Bar-Dayan, Office Support Michoel Klugmann, Suri Feigenbaum, Account Specialist Assistant Secretary Judy Pister, Executive Assistant Daniel Bitton, Executive & New Client Representative RABBI DOVID ROSEN: Nathan Bleeman, Executive Sarah Rosen, Account Specialist Meyer Feldman, Executive Esther Scheer, Administrative 1 hour; 100 questions David Kleiner, Executive Assistant & Customer Service Marvin Sigler, Executive Representative COR’s Rabbi Rosen answered over David Woolf, Executive Olga Sekiritsky, Accountant Robert Benmergui Sheryn Weber, Administrator two thousand Pesach related questions Mark Berenblut last year. In 1 hour he will go through 100 Neil Cohen KOSHER CORNER EDITORIAL STAFF of the most frequently asked Pesach questions. Yehoshua Czermak Richard Rabkin, Ben Fefferman Editor-in-chief Introductory remarks by Shlome Goldreich Rabbi Dovid Rosen, Allan Gutenberg Senior Halachic Contributor Rabbi Yosef Oziel, Mora D’atra, Petah Tikva, Mark Halpern Chava Fine, Paul Jacobs Senior Staff Writer Anshe Castilla Congregation Irving Karoly Sarah Rosen, Jerrold Landau Advertising Coordinator Brian Lass Sheryn Weber, Copy Editor Elie Mamann RB Creative A selection of complimentary appetizers Isaac E. Oziel Design & Layout David Plonka and desserts will be served by Ely’s Fine Foods Ronald Rutman Simon Schonblum Avrum Waisbrod 416.635.9550 Meyer Zeifman [email protected] Shmuel Zimmerman Leibel Zoberman www.cor.ca corkosher @CorKosher www.cor.ca • 416.635.9550 • [email protected] contents 9 51 THE PASSOVER EXPERIENCE LAWS AND GUIDELINES 51 / Secrets to Seder Success 9 / Establishments and Services 56 / My Favorite Passover Memory... for Passover 4 61 / An Inside Look at Three Stunning 11 / Passover Product Guide WELCOME Medieval Illustrated Haggadot 14 / What is Kitniyot 63 / Making Passover in Small-Town Canada 67 4 / Rabbi Felder’s Message 15 / Kosher For Passover Products 5 / Dr. Marder’s Message for Sephardim List 65 / Behind the Passover Veil WHAT’S COOKING 6 / Nisan Calendar 18 / Guidelines for use of Medications 68 / Recipes 7 / Important Pesach Dates and Times and Personal Care Products on Passover 72 / Nutritionist’s CORner 19 / Chametz Free Medications 20 / Personal Care Products 25 / Kashering For Pesach 30 / Tevilat Keilim 32 / Shaimos Guidelines 33 / Pet Food on Passover and Throughout the Year 35 / Pesach Traveler Checklist 36 / Top Ten Passover Related Questions 73 39 CORPORATE KOSHER ARTICLES OF FAITH 73 / Mondolez Canada: Cadbury Brands 74 / Gay Lea 39 / The Right Time to Count 75 / Freshline Foods 87 41 / Next Year in Yerushalayim 76 / EPIC KIDS CORNER 43 / From Toronto to Jerusalem 76 / Fraser Valley Packers 45 / Kashrus of Medications 78 / Backerhaus Veit 47 / Blessings on Fruit Trees 79 / Marty’s Pickles: 48 / Questions from the Halacha Line How Do You Make a Pickle Kosher? Questions? Call the Kosher Hotline at 416.635.9550 x100 49 / Rabbi Zev Eisenstein, 81 / Longo’s of Blessed Memory or email us at [email protected] 82 / Tzafona Cellars We have answers. 85 / Company Updates WELCOME WELCOME Rabbi Felder’s Message Dr. Marder’s Message he theme of this year’s COR Pesach Guide is My home (the Bais Hamikdosh) and the exile of My It is my privilege to bring our growth and quality, you can only imagine the ohkaurhc vcv vbak/In fulfilling the mitzvah of children (Bnei Yisroel). Seek and ask for its peace and many staff, volunteers, clients, colleagues and friends Tohrmn ,thmh rupo at the Seder, we state at the very I will forgive you - ofk kjun hbtu vnukac ohktua uhv that we require and rely on. In the past, I have written outset ktrahs vtcv vbak tfv t,av/ What is the sig- /lhcvut uhkah ohkaurh ouka ukta ch,fs tuv tsv greetings on behalf of the about our organization, our values and objectives nificance in stating tfv t,av that we are presently We hope you find the expanded Kosher CORner and have recognized our dedicated Executive and here? Would it not be sufficient just to state that our informative and useful in your Pesach preparations. Rabbinic leaders as well as our Board members. This wish in the coming year is to be in Eretz Yisroel? As well, in arousing our attention and prayers for year, I would like to recognize and thank the senior Harav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv zt”l reflects on the benefit of Eretz Yisroel, fulfilling the directive Executive and Board of COR staff that I have the privilege and pleasure of the state of Bnei Yisroel, when we were enslaved in of vahrs and ,vnukac ohktua uhv may we merit working with in my role as Chair. They are a devoted Egypt. Physically, we were forced to do backbreak- ohkaurhc vtcv vbak. group of incredible individuals, but more importantly, ing labour. Spiritually, we sank almost to the point of the Kashruth Council of together they form a team that is unparalleled in the no return. Virtually no one in Klal Yisroel dreamed of kashrus world. This has been mentioned to me by redemption, and this bitter situation continued for leaders in other North American kashrus agencies as many years as the enslavement intensified. And then Canada (COR). well as by many in our own community. Each of these suddenly, we were redeemed. As the Torah relates, On behalf of COR’s As I write this message, we are in the middle of another stars brings a unique set of talents and energy to the ohrmn .rtn ,tmh iuzpjc hf, we left in haste, before it cold winter, but my thoughts are warmed with the team and they are all singularly focused on improving was too late. Therefore, concludes Harav Elyashiv, anticipation of the special Pesach season soon to be the cause of kashrus in Toronto, Canada and beyond. at the onset of the Seder we arouse our belief in the Rabbinical Vaad upon us, when you will be reading this magazine. I want to introduce you to and personally thank our ultimate redemption, although we may not be able to Speaking of my thoughts, I recall (or maybe reminisce COR “Dream Team”: Rabbi Yacov Felder, Chair of the envision how it may transpire. of) the good old days in Toronto when I was growing Rabbinical Vaad Hakashruth; Rabbi Sholom H. Adler, It is difficult for us to foresee the vsh,gc vkutd the Hakashruth, I would like up. There were only a few kosher establishments and Director of Industrial Kosher & Shechita; Rabbi Tsvi future redemption as we endure the present exile. The there were not many kosher products that you could Heber, Director Community Kosher; Rabbi Yosef tragic losses that we suffered in the recent past due buy in the stores. How we have grown as a community Oziel, Rabbinic Liaison; Mr. Richard Rabkin, Managing to terrorism in Eretz Yisroel, in France and elsewhere, to extend best wishes and as a kashrus organization. It gives me (and Director; and Mr. Jay Spitzer, Director of Operations. in fact, can arouse our belief in the ultimate salvation. hopefully all of you) great pleasure to see the strides With the support and assistance of our talented office tfv t,av presently, we are here. Throughout the we have made and, hopefully, will continue to make staff, these leaders manage and improve our organiza- generations, many nations have endeavoured to for a jnau raf dj/ with everyone’s input and support. tion daily, a fact that every member of our community annihilate us on countless occasions, and yet we are On a related note, I just returned from a trip to the should be aware of and more importantly, proud of. here. We defy all odds, statistics and predictions and States to visit our children. While we had a wonderful I hope that you enjoy this issue of The Kosher remain vibrant and relevant in our own communities time there, the diversity and number of hashgochos CORner. I thank the many people who have devoted and in the world at large. Likewise, as unlikely as we on products and stores left me confused at times. It themselves to ensuring that it carries on the COR may think it to be, ktrahs tgrtc vtcv vbak. Hashem was sometimes impossible to know what or where we tradition of bringing you educational and entertain- can bring us all to Eretz Yisroel.