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Cafeterias and dining rooms Paper plates and cutlery are available and Definitions The hospital cafeteria has meat days and the microwaves are also not kosher. dairy days. The Terraces Dining Room only • Hecksher – a symbol on processed serves meat and pareve (neutral) meals. Personal food items may also be eaten in food that marks the food as kosher The WA Café only serves dairy meals. The one’s personal office, a designated outdoor Apotex dining rooms as well as the dining eating area; or an approved area within a • Kashrut – Jewish dietary laws areas in the Day Centre for Seniors serve department. Outside food eaten in these only residents and Day Care members, and spaces must be out of view from clients, • Kashering – the process of making have meat and dairy days. families and visitors. dishes and appliances kosher

Food brought in must never come into • Kosher – food that follows the laws of contact with any Baycrest dishes, trays or kashrut cutlery. Please use only disposable • Mashgia h – the supervisor of a kosher tableware and do not heat food in any kitchen who ensures that all food microwave or stove or store it in a prepared on site is refrigerator used by clients. Contacts us

Please feel free to contact the Rabbi or Mashgia h to help support clients in Can I bring in food from outside following medical instructions: Baycrest? Rabbi: 416 785 2500 x 3743 Any food that departments or units Understanding independently bring in for client use (i.e. Email: [email protected] not through Baycrest Food and Nutrition Mashgia h : 416 785 2500 x2783 Services or Purchasing) as well as food kashrut 3560 Bathurst St. T. 416 785 2500 which clients, families or visitors bring in Medical instructions and kashrut for use in any type of program, meeting, or Toronto, Ontario W. www.baycrest.org Canada M6A party function must be approved by the The highest value in Judaism is on the Mashgia h. preservation of life. As such, in cases where medical instructions come into conflict with Terraces residents and their family kashrut laws or other forms of observance, Jewish dietary laws members may bring outside food into the the medical instructions prevail. resident's apartment for personal use. An example of this might be a client who Staff and volunteers may bring in food for wants to fast on Yom Kippur but is not in the personal use without the approval of the physical condition to do so. Mashgia h, provided it’s eaten in the Baycrest Health Sciences employee lunch room. Food from outside is fully affiliated with can be stored, prepared and eaten there. the University of Toronto Kashrut_Brochure2017_Layout 1 3/28/2017 2:16 PM Page 2

What does kashrut mean? What are the dietary What is the kashrut practice at Please do not bring outside food into the restrictions? Baycrest cafeteria or use any cafeteria trays, dishes The Torah (Pentateuch) outlines or utensils for eating outside food, even if restrictions regarding food (Leviticus 11:1- The Torah categorizes kosher animals as Baycrest strives to be as inclusive and the outside food seems to be kosher. 2): “These are the living things that you follows: welcoming as possible to all forms of may eat ….” These dietary laws, expanded Jewish practice. Jewish kashrut practices Baycrest is so large that this rule helps upon over the centuries, detail what Mammals: The animal must chew its cud vary widely. Jews observe and interpret ensure the strict level of kashrut. observant Jews are and are not allowed to and have split hooves. Jewish law in many ways, and have To prevent inadvertent mixing of meat eat. Combined, all of these laws are called varying relationships to Jewish practice. and dairy products, as well as to prevent kashrut . Water animals: Fish with fins and scales accidental mixing of kosher and non- With kashrut, however, it is almost kosher items, Baycrest designates certain The Hebrew word “ kosher ”means “fit” or Fowl: The Torah lists fowl that are not impossible to allow for a diversity of areas for kosher-only use and other areas “proper” and most often describes food kosher. practice because one person’s practice for non-kosher usage. that follows the laws of kashrut. can inhibit and even prevent another’s. In addition, kosher mammals and fowl must Thus, kashrut is an area where Baycrest Kosher Eating Areas Judaism’s goal is to transform basic be slaughtered and the meat treated in a strictly follows Orthodox practices. • Cafeteria human drives, such as hunger, from specific way. Baycrest requests compromise and • WA Café narrowly personal purposes to the service cooperation from all clients, residents, • Hospital Dining Rooms (except 6W) of God(Leviticus 20:26): “You shall be What do the designations of staff and visitors. • Apotex Dining Rooms and Rec Rooms holy, for I, Adonai , am holy ….” Keeping • Wortsman Hall the kosher rituals is one way Jews seek to meat, dairy and pareve mean? • Loftus Hall connect spiritually with God. Indeed, ritual • Exton Board Room Torah prohibits tasting the death of meat is at the heart of . • Centre of Excellence spi ritual ity and the life of milk together so every piece • Lederman Board Room of food has a designation of dairy, meat or In addition to the actual food, the laws of • Nursing Conference Room pareve (neutral; neither meat nor dairy) and kashrut also apply to the dishes, cutlery, • Spiro Garden there is a waiting period between eating cookware and appliances where food is • Terraces Gift Shop meat and dairy foods. prepared. • ABC Classroom Meat: The meat of mammals and fowl. Non-Kosher Eating Areas • All outdoor areas except for WA Dairy: Milk and milk products. courtyard and Spiro Garden • Staff Lunchroom Pareve: The meat of fish is pareve; eggs How does Baycrest keep • Student Centre lunchroom are pareve. Fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, kashrut? • Foundation Staff lunchroom tea, coffee, water, juices, and legumes are all • 6W Dining Room pareve. Baycrest keeps all client areas kosher, including the cafeteria and dining areas, • Family Apotex Dining Area • Staff lunchrooms in Apotex For processed foods, the hecksher (kosher fridges in Individual units and common • Private offices symbol) will usually indicate whether the areas, except at the Terraces. • Terraces Residents Meeting Room product is dairy, meat or pareve.