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BALTIMORE CHOMETZ BURNING 2014

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ENTRANCE ONLY FROM HAYWARD AVENUE 3 Blocks East of Park Heights Avenue Chometz Info Chometz Info Monday, April 14, 2014 between 6:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.

Closed cans or bottles will not be accepted to avoid the hazard of

explosion. Please be considerate by burning chometz, not plastic. Pesach Info Dumpsters will be provided for large amounts of chometz. Also, please do not abuse this service by bringing excessive amounts of chometz or trash.

RECYCLING is encouraged. Designated dumpsters are available on-site.

NO BULK TRASH (non-food related) will be permitted. List Medicine After chometz is burned, Kol Chamira is recited.

GUIDE TO PURCHASING CHOMETZ Personal Care List AFTER PESACH חמץ שעבר עליו הפסחThere is arabbinic injunction not to eat or benefit from chometz that was in the possession of a Jew ,(חמץ שעה”פ henceforth abbreviated) during Pesach. Therefore, after Pesach consumers must ascertain that the chometz they purchase was not in the possession of a Jew during Pesach. Chometz may be purchased from a store that is owned by a gentile. According to Hilchos Pesach, a store is considered gentile owned if the gentile owns more than half of the store.

In a corporation, at least 51% of the voting stock must be owned by gentiles, Index .חמץ שעה”פ otherwise the chometz becomes

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CHOMETZ AFTER PESACH CHART חמץ שעבר עליו הפסח? PRODUCT Barley (if pearled, raw and packaged) No Beer Yes Bread /Cake/Cookies Yes Pesach Kitchen Cereal with primary ingredient of wheat, oats or barley Yes Chometz content is more than a k’zayis. Yes

Chometz content in entire package is less than a k’zayis but is greater than 1/60 Yes of the cooked product (e.g., Corn Flakes cereal)

Chometz content in entire package is less than a k’zayis but is greater than 1/60 No of the uncooked product

Chometz content is less than 1/60 of the product No Chometz Info Chometz Nokshe (e.g., chometz glue) Yes Chometz Info Condiments containing vinegar (ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, pickles) No Cookies Yes Cosmetics No Detergents No Extracts No Flour (including flour that contains malted barley and whole wheat flour) No Food Coloring No Pesach Info Ketchup No Kitniyos No Malt flavoring (in product) Yes Maltodextrin No Maltose (in product) Yes Mayonnaise No Medicine containing chometz No Medicine List Medicine Modified food starch (from unknown source) No Mustard No Oatmeal (Instant, Regular, Baby) Yes Pasta Yes Pickles No Pretzels Yes

Processed on chometz equipment with no chometz content in product (if it was Personal Care List No not known to have been processed on Pesach) Products non-edible even for canine consumption No Rolled Oats Yes Soy Sauce (containing wheat) Yes Vanillin and Ethyl Vanillin No Vinegar (from unknown sources) No Vitamins containing chometz No Wheat germ Yes Wheat gluten or Wheat protein (unknown amount in product) Yes Index Whiskey Yes Yeast (Baker’s) No Yeast extract No CHOMETZ AFTER PESACH CHART 63 Index Personal Care List Medicine List Pesach Info Chometz Info Pesach Kitchen Product Directory 64 a STORES WHERE Village Liquors Shoprite (37W. AylesburyRoad, Timonium) Seven MileMarket Savings Center ReisterstownRoad.northofSlade Ave) 7-11 OriginsMarket Earth Dunkin Donuts Dugan’s Liquor A-Z Savings Rite-Aid Petco K-Mart BJ’s Wegman’s Save-A-Lot Sam’s DiscountWarehouse 2014 PASSOVER DIRECTORY (Fords Ln,HooksLane,OldCourtRoad, ALL STAR-D ESTABLISHMENTS ALL STAR-K ESTABLISHMENTS IMMEDIATELY AFTER (6307 ReisterstownRoad) (1508 &7000ReisterstownRoad) (4003 SevenMileLane) STORES IN BALTIMORE, MD NATIONAL STORES CHOMETZ Winn-Dixie Walgreens Trader Joe’s Shoppers FoodWarehouse Royal Farms Petsmart CVS MAY BE PURCHASED PESACH 2014 Product Directory Product

WHEN CHOMETZ MAY BE PURCHASED AFTER PESACH 2014

Major Jewish Owned Supermarkets Pesach Kitchen that do not sell their chometz Wednesday, May 7, 2014 (2 weeks after Pesach)

Supermarkets that purchase from Jewish owned distributors that do not sell their chometz Chometz Info Chometz Info Wednesday, May 21, 2014 (4 weeks after Pesach)

Jewish Owned Liquor Stores that do not sell their chometz Friday, June 6, 2014 (after Shavuos) Pesach Info BALTIMORE DISTIBUTOR INFORMATION A&L Foods Distributor of Kosher Foods (to Giant, Target, and Safeway in Baltimore) sells their chometz through the STAR-K. The following chometz products may be purchased from these stores immediately after Pesach as follows: Medicine List Medicine

• Giant- Section Labeled KOSHER FOODS: Dry, Frozen, Refrigerated • Target- Section Labeled KOSHER FOODS: Dry, Frozen • Safeway- Section Labeled KOSHER FOODS: Frozen Foods ONLY

Chometz found in the remainder of these supermarkets are possibly Personal Care List purchased from a Jewish distributor. Therefore, chometz may not be purchased from these stores until four weeks after Pesach. One may purchase chometz from these stores beginning on the Wednesday after Lag B’omer, May 21st, 2014. We do not have any information regarding these stores in other parts of the country. Index

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