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PASSOVER - PESACH APRIL 2020 - NISAN 5780 2 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS sell their Chometz for Pesach, but Chometz on Pesach ...... 3 prefer to dispose of it instead. The Kitniyos & Matzo Ashira ...... 3 following are actual Chometz: bread, Bitul of Chometz ...... 4 cake, cereal made from wheat, oats Consumption of Chometz ...... 5 or barley, cookies, farfel mix, some licorice, pasta, pretzels, rolled oats, Selling Of Chometz ...... 5 wheat gluten, wheat protein. Some Chometz She’avar Alav Hapesach ...... 5 have the same custom concerning Kashering Utensils ...... 6 beer and whiskey. Erev Pesach ...... 7 STANDARDS OF KASHRUS Fast of the First Born ...... 7 With over 1,000 Kosher certifying Eating on Erev Pesach ...... 7 agencies and individuals competing Selected Laws & Customs ...... 8 in the Kosher certifying business, it is expected that standards will The Seder Plate ...... 8 vary. While most keep to a basic Mitzvos at the Seder ...... 8 acceptable standard, some do not. Medicine ...... 9 We still see gelatin from non- Kosher Internet Sites ...... 10 animals being used, (often listed as “k-Gelatin”), corn syrup as an Pet Foods ...... 12 ingredient in Passover products Items that may be used without Passover Certification ...... 15 (with a long reference attempting to Items that are reliably certified for Passover ...... 22 legitimize it), carmine (from bugs) used as red coloring, as well as many Products to be cautious of for Pesach use ...... 30 other questionable ingredients. New Products for Pesach ...... 34 With the vast number of products Alerts ...... 37 being certifed by reliable agencies Times to Remember ...... 39 and individuals, it would seem to be much less tempting to allow for CHOMETZ ON PESACH these lenient opinions to lessen Chometz is any substance from one of fve cereal our observance of Pesach. Additionally, some grains (wheat, barley, oats, spelt, or rye), that establishments only ofer “Kosher style” products for contains leavening, caused by its prolonged contact Pesach, while the lenient word “style” is missed by with water or other liquids. It is important to note many. Some food establishments ofer a Passover that Chometz/Se”or does NOT translate into “yeast”. taco bar, ham on Matzah special and Passover It refers to leavening: namely self-rising from a “challah”, among other things. The only protection sour-dough starter type of process. The prohibition as far as the government is concerned is from of Chometz on Pesach includes “Chometz Gomur” Assembly Bill 295, section 1329.29, passed in March (unadulterated Chometz) and “Ta‘aruvas Chometz” of 1993. It states: “No person shall do any of the (a mixture containing real Chometz). There are three following: Make any direct statement, either orally areas with which we must be concerned when or in writing, display the words “Kosher”, “Kosher evaluating Chometz. First, there is “Isur Hana’ah”. style”, “Kosher type”, “Kosher for Passover”, “Jewish”, This means that one may not derive any pleasure or “Hebrew” in any language or display any insignia, or beneft whatsoever from Chometz (e.g. feeding six pointed star, or other mark that might reasonably Chometz to one’s pets, etc.). Secondly, a Jew may be calculated to deceive or lead a reasonable person not own Chometz. This prohibition extends to to believe a product is “Kosher” or sanctioned by possession of Chometz anywhere in the world (such Orthodox Hebrew religious requirements, if it is as in a boat, ofce, mountain retreat, etc.). Thirdly, not”. Obviously one needs to be vigilant in carefully there is a prohibition against having Chometz in watching for proper certifcation. one’s possession. One must be careful to remove all KITNIYOS Chometz, not sold, from their premises. Chometz Due to the stringency of the prohibition of not that was sold should, preferably, be stored in eating Chometz on Pesach, Ashkenazic Jews, as an inaccessible area. Jews may not leave unsold well as many Sephardim, have developed a custom Chometz in their possession on Pesach, even if they not to eat kitniyos (legumes) on Pesach other than do not intend to use it. One should be careful not to for infants and under other special circumstances send a package which contains Chometz too close provided that the foods are prepared in separate to Pesach, as it may arrive during Pesach. Due to the utensils. Kitniyos includes beans, soy, rice, peas, severity of Chometz many have the custom to not 4 and corn among others: (see below). GOING AWAY FOR PESACH Sephardim, whose minhag (custom) One must sell his/her Chometz regardless of where permits them to eat rice on Pesach, must be careful they are for Pesach. This is the case even if one left to determine that the rice is additive-free. Many home 30 days before Pesach and no one will be in Sephardim have the minhag to check the rice three the house during Pesach. It is necessary to inform times, as well as to check for other grains that may the Rabbi selling your Chometz as to the location of be mixed in. In any case, open bins in stores should the Chometz and to your location during Pesach so not be used. This year, again, the Star-K Kashrus that he can know the proper time zones of selling organization is certifying Carolina Mehadrin Rice for and buying back the Chometz for you. use for Sephardim on Pesach. If a person leaves home before Pesach, within 30 Ashkenazim refrain from eating peanuts as well. days of Pesach, the night before his/her departure However, this restriction regarding peanuts may should do a regular Bedikas Chometz without a not include peanut oil (according to the opinion of Bracha and recite “Kol Chamira” for the Chometz Rav Moshe Feinstein ZT”L.) Legumes are permitted found in the house. Note: Kol Chamira should for some Sephardic Jews who, for various historical always be said in a language that one understands, reasons, did not adopt this custom of refraining as this is not a Teflla, but a declaration. The from kitniyos consumption on Pesach. A reliable alternative to an early Bedika is to appoint a source of acceptable products following this Shaliach (messenger) to do a regular Bedikas Sephardic custom is the Sephardi division of the Chometz with a Bracha on the proper night of J.S.O.R. at (732) 531-4872 or WWW.JSOR.ORG (be Bedikas Chometz. aware that a number of lists exist for Sephardim that are extremely misleading and erroneous). A guest in a hotel, who has Chometz in the hotel on the night of Bedikas Chometz should conduct For this reason the Kosher consumer is confronted themselves as they would at home, performing a full every year around Pesach time with a confusing Bedika with a Bracha. It is the minhag to carefully array of Kosher certifcations found on candy, jam, put out pieces of Chometz before beginning the mustard and other products containing legumes. In Bedika. reality, these products are edible on Pesach by only certain groups of Jews. Many, but not all, will state It is preferable to empty a stocked hotel fridge of “Leochlei Kitniyos - only for those who eat kitniyos”. beer, cookies etc. before Pesach begins. If this is not Some examples of this are sunfower seeds, canned possible, minimally, the fridge should be taped or vegetables, halva etc. Every Jew, however, is locked shut. The guest should inform the hotel that permitted to derive beneft from kitniyos (such as they do not accept responsibility for those items. pet food, glue, baby formula etc.). A guest for Pesach at a relative’s house should hear The following are considered kitniyos or treated as the Bracha from the owner of the house and then kitniyos according to many opinions: make his/her own Bedika in their room. Alfalfa Sprouts, Anise, Ascorbic Acid (May be BITUL (ANNULMENT) OF CHOMETZ Chometz), Asparatame (Nutrasweet), Beans, During the year, any non - Kosher ingredients which Black Eyed Peas, Buckwheat, Calcium Ascorbate, are inadvertently mixed with Kosher ingredients Canola Oil, Caraway, Citric Acid (May be Chometz), may be Halachically (according to Jewish law) ft Chickpeas, Confectioners’ Sugar with corn starch, to eat. The reason for this leniency is that they are Coriander, Corn, Corn Syrup, Cumin, Dextrose, declared “Batel Beshishim” (annulled in sixty i.e. Fennel, Fenugreek, Flax Seeds, Hemp (unchecked), the Kosher food is at least sixty times greater than Hydrolyzed Vegetable Oil, Kasha, Kimmel, Lecithin, the non-Kosher, thus making the non-Kosher food Lentils, Licorice, Lucerne, Lupine, Malto Dextrins annulled). This rule is true regarding Chometz on (Chometz or kitnios-derived), Millet, MSG, Mustard, Pesach only if the mixture was made before Pesach. Peanuts, Poly-sorbates (May be Chometz), Popcorn, During Pesach, the laws of “bitul” are not applicable. Poppy Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Rice (Vitamins In other words, during the week of Pesach, if even added may be Chometz), Sesame Seeds, Snow a tiny amount of Chometz falls into a large amount Peas, Sodium Citrate (May be Chometz), Sodium of “Kosher for Pesach” food, it renders the food, as Erythorbate (May be Chometz), Sorbitol (Could be well as the pot, unft for use on Pesach. As in all such Chometz if outside the U.S.), Soy Oil, Corn Oil, Soy, Halachic questions, a competent Rav should be String Beans, Sunfower Seeds, Tofu (from soy), consulted. Vitamin C (may be Chometz), Wild Rice, Xanthan gum (May be Chometz). NOTE: Flax seed, chia and Note: Lactaid drops may contain Chometz. Hemp seed are not actually kitniyos and can be Therefore, they should be added to milk before used after checking for other grains. Pesach to have the Chometz annulled in sixty times the amount of milk, applesauce etc. 5 CONSUMPTION OF CHOMETZ three days in advance for Shabbos, Chazal came up with an alternative. This consists Since the prohibition of eating Chometz on Pesach of beginning the cooking process for Shabbos applies not only to Chometz itself, but to any before Yom Tov, and concluding the preparations derivatives of Chometz or to any product that on Yom Tov Erev Shabbos. The ofcial start of may contain Chometz, one should make certain Shabbos cooking is done Wednesday, Erev Yom that all food products that are bought for Pesach Tov, by cooking an egg or other small part of a meal should have a certifcation by a reliable Kashrus and setting it aside with a Matzo, which preferably organization or Orthodox Rabbi. should be eaten at Shalosh Seudos. We then recite HANA’AH (BENEFIT) FROM CHOMETZ the Brocho and declaration as stated in the Siddur During Pesach, we may not derive any sort of for Eiruv Tavshilin. If a person forgot to do this on beneft from Chometz. Therefore, Chometz may Erev Yom Tov, they should ask their local Rabbi what not be sold or used, even in business transactions to do. or as pet food. Even some cosmetics must be CHOMETZ SHE’AVAR ALAV HAPESACH Chometz-free. Generally, there is no problem with (BUYING CHOMETZ AFTER PESACH) the following products if they are not organic in Due to the severity of the “Issur” (prohibition) of nature, and do not contain any grain by - products: Chometz, Chazal reinforced the sale of Chometz Acne Aid, Mineral Oil, Baby Cream, Baby Oil, Eye with a fne. This fne was levied on any Jews who Liner, Mascara, Rouge (Powder), Nail Polish, Talcum kept Chometz in their possession or ownership Powder, Stick Powder Deodorant, and Vaseline. during Pesach. This is called “Chometz She’avar MECHIRAS (SELLING OF) CHOMETZ Alav HaPesach.” Jewish law requires that if a Jew “Mechiras Chometz” is the sale of Jewish owned owns Chometz on Pesach, no Jew is allowed to eat Chometz to a non- Jew before Pesach. One must sell that food, even after Pesach. Therefore, we are also Chometz which is in their regular home, vacation prohibited from buying in stores which are Jewish home, ofce etc. If one cannot sell their Chometz owned, if they have not sold their Chometz. It is through their local Rabbi, numerous sites on-line important to note that although we may not buy will facilitate this transaction. This transfer of Chometz from such Jewishly owned stores that Chometz to a non-Jew is a legal and binding sale, did not sell their Chometz, we may purchase non- complete with contract. This sale is transacted Chometz food products from these stores. Actual through a Rabbi, who acts as a legal agent to sell Chometz products that are prohibited in these the Jew’s Chometz to a non-Jew. The Rabbi enters stores would be pasta, cereal from grain, bread, into an agreement with the non-Jew for the sale of beer, cookies/crackers, malt, maltose, pretzels, soy this Chometz. The Chometz that has been sold must sauce, wheat germ, wheat protein, whiskey, dog/cat be placed in an area which is completely sealed of, food containing grain etc. and must remain there throughout the holiday of Some common products that one may assume are Pesach. One must be careful to inform the Rabbi if Chometz, but are actually not, and therefore may be they intend to be in a diferent time zone for Pesach. purchased in a store that did not sell their Chometz They do not want to have their Chometz bought are the following… baker’s yeast, cosmetics, dry back if it is still Pesach where they are (i.e. overseas, cake mixes, kitniyos, glue containing Chometz, etc.) If one leaves home within 30 days of Pesach ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, pickles, medicine and will not return before Pesach, they should containing Chometz, maltodextrin, maltose, malt either check for Chometz the night before they favoring, food coloring, four, extracts, raw pearled leave or appoint someone to check for them on the barley, vanilla and vitamins/medicine containing regular night of B’dikas Chometz. If the checking Chometz. is done before the bdikah night one does not say Rav Moshe Feinstein ZT”L, in his sefer “Igros Moshe”, a Bracha. A person can sell all the Chometz in their states that if a Jew sold his Chometz for Pesach, home before leaving and check only one room for and then kept his store open during Pesach Chometz. Regardless, a person needs to say the and continued to sell items of Chometz, one is Bittul (annulment) of Chometz at its regular time of nevertheless allowed to buy from that store after Erev Pesach. Pesach. EIRUV TAVSHILIN This year, the frst two days of Yom Tov are followed immediately by Shabbos. This presents a challenge as to when we may cook for Shabbos. Normally, we are prohibited from cooking from one day of Yom Tov for the next, and likewise, from Yom Tov for Shabbos. Recognizing the difculty of cooking 6 A JEW MAY BUY FROM THE covered with non absorbent material (i.e. contact FOLLOWING STORES IMMEDIATELY paper, cardboard or multiple layers of aluminum AFTER PESACH: foil). 7-Eleven Nuts & More THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF KASHERING: 99 cent store Petco Libbun Gomur - torching or making the metal glow. Albertsons Petsmart BevMo Ralphs/Kroger Libun Kal - heating the metal until it can burn paper Big Lots Rite Aid on the other side. Bristol Farms Sadaf Hagolo - dipping in boiling water. Cofee Bean Safeway Eruy Roschim - pouring boiling water. (Note: Costco Sam’s Club steamers usually do not work) CVS Smart & Final Dollar Tree Smith’s The general rule is that we undo as we did. If something uses straight dry heat (i.e. bbq) we need Erewhon Target (in California) to torch it or use self clean in an oven which is the Food4Less Trader Joe’s, same. Soup pots are used with liquid so they are Fresh & Easy Vons / Pavilions kashered with liquid in boiling water etc. Gelson’s Walgreens Jetro/Restaurant Depot Walmart TO KASHER: Jon’s Wine & Liquor Depot Electric range, frst scour it thoroughly. Then, turn K-Mart Whole Foods it on to the highest temperature setting for 15 aand all reliably Kosher certifed stores are fne to minutes, or until it gets red hot. shop in for Chometz after Pesach. Reliably certifed Enamel glazed stove tops should be covered Kosher stores all sell their Chometz before Pesach. during Pesach. Note: Rabbi Elmaliach, the Rabbi in charge of Gas grates should be put in the oven for Kashering Kashrus at Ben Gurion airport, reports that the or torched. stores at area D7 in the airport are clear of Chometz She’avar Olav Hapesach. There is a restaurant in Glass-top stoves can be Kashered in the area of the Ben Gurion airport called “Aroma Espresso the burners. They should be turned to high for 15 Bar”, under Chug Chosom Sofer Hashgacha and it minutes. The areas in between cannot be Kashered. is fne to eat there after Pesach. The other stores Some fnd it practical to change the entire glass top in other areas of the airport, had their Chometz for Pesach. sold but were open on Pesach and continued to A non self-cleaning oven should be cleaned with a sell Chometz during Pesach. Some poskim allow special solution, such as “Easy Of” and not used for purchases from such establishments after Pesach, 24 hours. After this time, it should be turned on to while some do not. the maximum setting for one hour. This will Kasher (See AKO whiskey alert in the “alerts” section} the oven, but not the broiler. The broiler pan cannot be Kashered, therefore, it KASHERING is usually not used for Pesach. If the broiler pan is (MAKING UTENSILS KOSHER) replaced, the broiler can be Kashered in a similar fashion as the oven. If one desires to Kasher it, Utensils that are used during the year for Chometz “Libbun” (glowing hot) is required (i.e. by using a may not be used to prepare food for Pesach unless torch). they are properly Kashered. A self cleaning oven needs only to go thru one self Cloth tablecloths (not plastic) and towels used year clean cycle. It can be on the shortest cycle of your round should be washed thoroughly and may then self-cleaning oven. be used for Pesach. Many microwave ovens (those whose walls do Surfaces upon which only cold Chometz has been not exceed 120 degrees during cooking) without placed during the year, such as refrigerators and browning elements or convection can be Kashered pantry shelves, should be thoroughly washed and by frst cleaning them and not using them for rinsed to prepare them for Pesach use. Surfaces 24 hours, and then putting a new glass tray, or which are used for hot Chometz during the year, in cardboard on the bottom. Afterwards, a cup or bowl addition, whenever possible must be Kashered by of water should be boiled inside. pouring hot water on them. Surfaces that cannot be Kashered (such as formica and ceramic tiles A barbecue must be Kashered with “Libun Gamur” etc.) should frst be cleaned thoroughly and then which includes torching any surface that food 7 comes in contact with, in addition to cleaning and KITCHEN ITEMS THAT MAY NOT BE burning out the rest of the barbecue. In addition, KASHERED: the coals or lava rock should be replaced. Often, it is Arcolac Plastic more practical to purchase a new one for Pesach. Bread Machines Porcelain A stainless steel sink is Kashered after it has frst China Porcelain Enameled been cleaned, and then kept free from hot water Collanders (plastic) Pots usage for 24 hours. Then boiling water must be Corelle Pyrex poured over its entire surface. Porcelain sinks, Corning Ware Sandwich Maker however, may not be Kashered. They should be fully Crockpots Silverstone lined with a tin insert, contact paper, aluminum foil, Stoneware or a Pesach basin insert. Graters (any) Knives with Plastic Synthetic Rubber Dishwashers may be Kashered only if they have a Handles Tefon stainless steel interior. All racks must be changed. Melmac Toaster/Toaster Oven After waiting 24 hours, run a complete cycle with Mixers Wafe Iron soap. All rubber or plastic parts must be replaced as well. Pasta Maker These items should be washed thoroughly and be Metal utensils that are used with liquid (soup pots, put away in a completely sealed of area until after etc.) may be Kashered by frst cleaning them, not Pesach. using them for 24 hours, and fnally, completely immersing them in a Kashered pot full of boiling water for 15 seconds, followed by rinsing them in EREV PESACH cold water immediately upon removal. They should Bedikas Chometz: The search begins Tuesday night, be Kashered one at a time. An alternate method, 4/07. Many have the Minhag to place ten pieces of particularly useful for larger pots, is to set aside the bread or crackers in a bag out before the search is pot for 24 hours, after which time it should be flled started. with water and then be brought to a boil. A glowing Fast of the First Born: This year the fast falls on hot item, such as a rock, should then be placed Wednesday, 4/08. inside, allowing the hot water to spill over the sides. Siyum: Males who are frst born and do not wish Braces, bite plates and retainers should be brushed to fast on Wednesday should attend a Siyum in the thoroughly before Pesach. morning and eat at the meal following it. This meal Countertops that cannot be Kashered: Formica, is called a Seudas Mitzvah. It is generally held right Silestone, Composite Stone and Corian counter after Davening. tops may NOT be Kashered for Pesach, and Biur Chometz: The burning of the Chometz left in therefore, should be covered. one’s possession, including the Chometz found the Caesarstone countertops may NOT be Kashered previous night, must be burned by the end of the for Pesach according to many opinions, as they are ffth hour on Wednesday morning (4/08). Please see composed of only 93% stone. time chart for the exact latest time. Countertops that may be Kashered: Granite, Selling of the Chometz: This must be done by Marble, metal, stone, or Stainless Steel counter Wednesday morning 4/08, no later than the time of tops may be Kashered by pouring boiling hot water Biur Chometz (not steam) on them (Eirui). wood can be kashered EATING ON EREV PESACH with sanding. Consumption of Chometz is prohibited on Erev The following materials are subject to difering Pesach, from a third of the day and after- this is opinions if they can be Kashered: China, Corelle, usually counted four proportional hours from Corian, Cork, Corningware, Duralex, Earthware, daybreak (see times to remember). It is also Enamel Coated Formica, Melmac, Nylon, Plastic, forbidden to eat Matzo or anything baked with Porcelain, Pyrex, Synthetic Rubber, Tefon Coating. Matzo on Erev Pesach. This prohibition includes Some of the above are agreed upon that they egg Matzoh. This is in order to ensure that one will cannot be kashered. Ask your local rabbi. eat the Matzo at the Seder with a “hearty appetite”. Note: STEAM CLEANERS often may not be used This prohibition includes cakes and cookies made for Kashering purposes, as Kashering must be done from matzo meal. However, cooked Matzo products, with boiling water (212F) as steam in insufcient. such as knaidlach (Matzo balls) are permitted. Non- Gebrochts products are suitable for this time period. Water flter - change the flter. All foods should only be eaten in moderation from the ninth hour in the day and on in order to have 8 an appetite for the Seder. Imitation Matzo one should make every efort to drink wine at the made from Tapioca and Potato ingredients Seder. It is preferable to add at least some wine to is fne for Erev Pesach. the grape juice. SELECTED LAWS & CUSTOMS Each cup of wine should contain at least 3.3 fuid ounces. It is preferable to drink the entire cup, or One should prepare everything (for the frst Seder) at least half of it, for each of the four cups. Due to on Erev Pesach in order that the Seder should begin this one should not use a very large cup as this will immediately upon arriving from Shul. This includes necessitate drinking a large amount for each cup. setting the table, etc. It is a custom that pillows should be prepared for leaning on during the Seder. Men must consume all cups of wine while reclining Women are not required to lean, however, male on their left side. If one drank either of the frst two children are. It is also a custom among some that cups without reclining, he must drink again without the head of the household wears a Kittel during the a Brocho. Seder. In most places, the custom is that only the Note: Many Kosher wines (and some brands of grape head of the household has a Seder plate and the juice in the 64oz. bottles) are not cooked and state three Matzos. Some, however, have a Seder plate “Non-Mevushal.” Therefore, care must be taken as to and Matzos for each man present at the Seder. who handles them. (Most bottles that are cooked When only the head of the household has a Seder say “Mevushal” in English or Hebrew on the label). plate, he must provide for everyone at the Seder from his plate. Since there is usually not a sufcient Note: Many low-alcohol wines are now available. amount of Matzo, Marror and wine to ensure that Some are pure wine while others are a mixture of everyone present (male and female alike) has the wine and grape juice as indicated. required amounts during the Seder, additional MATZO Matzo, Marror and wine should be placed on the table for supplementary use. Only Shmurah Matzo (guarded Matzo), which is made of grain that has been guarded against THE SEDER PLATE fermentation from the time of harvest, should be One may not use MARROR (to fulfll the Mitzvah used for the Mitzva of eating Matzo at the Seder. of Marror) that was soaked for 24 hours or Both hand and machine Shmurah Matzo are longer. Soaking this long is called pickling and is acceptable. Over the past many decades there have Halachically considered cooking. One may only use been many opinions given as to the merits of hand uncooked vegetables for Marror. (Do not lean when versus machine Matzoh. Most use either one with eating Marror.) proper Hashgocho. CHAROSES can be made of ground apples, pears, Shmurah Matzo has been watched in most cases pomegranates, dates, fgs, walnuts, almonds, ginger from the time of cutting of the wheat to protect and cinnamon, to which wine is added. Recipes may from unwanted moisture, which may make it rise. vary according to tradition. Eighteen minute Matzo is run on machines that are KARPAS is any vegetable upon which a Brocho of cleaned every 18 minutes to prevent any possibility “HaAdama” is made, that may be dipped in salt of the dough rising. water or vinegar, and that may be used on Pesach. Regular Pesach Matzo has been baked on a Parsley, celery, and potatoes are often used as machine in under 18 minutes, but the machine will Karpas. run all day without cleaning in between runs. ZROA is a piece of meat which is roasted over the Matzo Ashira is any Matzo that contains products fre. Most people use a chicken neck or wing for this other than four and water, such as grape juice or purpose. apple juice. The consumption of Matzo Ashira is BAITZA is an ordinary hard boiled or roasted egg. prohibited for most people throughout Pesach. If one forgot to roast the Zroa or Baitza on Erev Included in this category are: Matzo which was Pesach, and had to do it at night, he must eat the kneaded with fruit juice, egg matzo, tea matzo, egg before sunset of the next day. honey and spice Matzo and some chocolate covered Matzo. However, this prohibition does not apply to THE ARBA KOSOS infants or people who are ill. When in doubt, consult (FOUR CUPS OF WINE) your Rabbi. It is preferable that the wine used at the Seder be Even one who is allowed to eat Matzo Ashira, red in color. For those who cannot drink wine, grape cannot fulfll their Mitzvah of Achilas Matzo (eating juice may be used (consult your Rabbi). If one must Matzo) with it. drink grape juice the 64 oz glass bottles that say on them Non-Mevushal are preferable. Nevertheless, Gluten Free Matzo A limited amount of Oat and 9 Spelt Matzo is produced as Shmura and regular TOILETRIES (non-Shemura) for those who cannot tolerate Rabbi Bess lists the following ingredients as possible wheat Matzo for medical reasons. One can fulfll Kashrus issues connected to Pesach: the Mitzvah of eating Matzo at the Seder with such Shmura Matzo. More information concerning this Amino Peptide Complex, Amp-Isostearoyl product can be found at www.Glutenfreeoatmatzos. Hydrolized Wheat Protein, Avena Sativa Flour, Avena com or call (732) 364-8757. Sativa Kernel Protein, Barley Extract, Beta Glucan, Disodium Wheatgermido Peg-2 Sulfosuccinate, Gluten Free Shehakol “Matzo Style” This product Hordeum Vulgare Extract, Hydrolyzed Wheat is made from tapioca with a bracha of “Shehakol”. It Gluten, Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Hydrolyzed has no relation to Matzo other than artifcially made Wheat Protein PgPropyl Silanetriol, Hydrolyzed to “look” like a Matzo. Gefen and Yehuda Matzo Wheat Starch, Hydroxypropyltrimonium companies, as well as some others, manufacture Hydrolized Wheat Protein, Oat Beta Glucan, Oat imitation Matzo. This is an excellent product to eat Extract, Oat Flour, Phytosphingosine Extract, Erev Pesach and any other time one does not wish Prolamine, Sodium Lauroyl Oat Amino Acids, to consume Matzo. (it is also a wonderful imitation Stearyldimoniumhydrosypropyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Matzo that can be eaten out of a Sukkah since it is Protein, Triticum Vulgare, Triticum Vulgare Flour not real Matzo). Obviously, this product cannot be Lipids, Triticum Vulgare Germ Extract, Triticum used as a substitute at any time for real Matzo. Vulgare Germ Oil, Wheat Amino Acids, Wheat MEDICINE Bran Extract, Wheat Germ Extract, Wheat Germ Glycerides, Wheat Germanidopropyldimonium Most prescriptions can be flled with Kosher for Hydroxypropyl Hydrolyzed Wheat Protein, Wheat Pesach medicine. For information on the Kosher Germ Oil, Wheat Protein, Wheat Sphingolipids. status of your medicines, contact your local reliable Rabbi. FROZEN VEGETABLES Rabbi Bess of Los Angeles has compiled the There are many issues concerning the use of frozen most detailed reliable list in the U.S. He can be vegetables for Pesach. Most large companies, such reached at (323) 933- 7193. Rabbi Bess together as S&W, Green Giant and Bird’s Eye, purchase their with the Star-K publishes the Passover Directory vegetables from many diferent processors. Due to with this information. Since some prescriptions, increased competition in this industry from Mexico unfortunately, are not available with Kosher and Guatemala, many packers are processing pasta certifcation, we will mention some guidelines for and vegetables in the same blanching equipment those who must take medicine on Pesach. when it is not being used for pure vegetables. This is done at temperatures between 100 to 200 1. If one sufers from an illness through which one’s degrees, thus making the machinery Halachically life may become endangered, one may eat Chometz unacceptable for Pesach use. However, some on Pesach and may use any medication needed companies use steam blanchers, which are not to avoid a life-threatening situation. This Chometz usable for pasta. Bodek, Garden Pure, as well as should be owned by a non- Jew. others carry many frozen vegetables which are 2. If someone is ill, but his life is not endangered, certifed for Pesach. he may not eat Chometz on Pesach. However, FRESH VEGETABLES he may take Chometz medicine under certain circumstances as long as he does not take it in In general, fresh vegetables do not pose a special the normal way (i.e. a pill without a cup of water). concern for Pesach. However, fruits and vegetables A Rabbi should be consulted if the need for such from Israel require that Terumos and Maasros be medication should occur. taken. Leafy vegetables require the same level of inspection for insects as during the rest of the 3. Generally speaking, cough syrups and other liquid year. This is a particular concern for many who medicines may contain grain alcohol, and may not use romaine lettuce for the Mitzvah of Marror. To be used on Pesach. When one must take medicine avoid this problem, some choose to use romaine during Pesach, his/her doctor should be asked to stalks only, which are easier to rinse and check for prescribe medicine without alcohol or capsules. insects. There are romaine lettuce stalks and other Many over the counter medicines require no produce certifed for Pesach that are not checked for special certifcation to be used on Pesach. Consult insects. One needs to make sure that the Hechscher your Rabbi for specifc questions. For a complete covers both the Pesach and insect issues. This year listing of this year’s Kosher for Pesach vitamins (as additional care must be taken that no Shmitta issues well as year-round vitamins) go online to www. exist. koshervitamins.com. 10 KOSHER NEWSLETTERS Kosher & KASHRUS INFORMATION HOTLINES Kashrus Conscience - Kosher Information Bureau Information Rabbi E. 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(Sephardic List) Jersey Shore Orthodox Rabbinate P.O. Box Elberon NJ 07740 (732) 531-0535 Rabbi Isaac Dwek - Deal Rabbi Isaac Farhi Deal www.jsor.org Medicines & Cosmetics of Pesach by Rabbi Gershon Bess Kollel Los Angeles 223 South Formosa Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 933-7193 Chodosh Hot Line – Rabbi Herman (718) 305-5133 Star-K product & medicine updates www.passoverkosher.com 11 SODA pasteurized. When determining whether a type of soda is Kosher MILK for Pesach, there are three major ingredients with Due to the modern pasteurizing processes used in which we are concerned. They are: brominated the milk industry, many nutrients are inadvertently vegetable oil, favorings and sugar. removed. Corn syrup, which is made from Kitniyos, is a Governmental regulations dictate that Vitamin common sweetener in soda. The other ingredient, D, and in some cases, Vitamin A be added to milk “favoring,” is also a source of concern, since there before its sale. The amounts added are very minute. are thousands of favors, many of which are not Inasmuch as Vitamins A and D are often derived Kosher, and others that are derived from Chometz. from Chometz or kitniyos, and since mixtures of Therefore, even Sephardim who normally consume even small amounts of Chometz on Pesach are not Kitniyos on Pesach should seek only those products “batel” (annulled), we must be cautious concerning reliably certifed to be Chometz-free. milk which contains these additives. Generally speaking, favoring is the key to a Another matter of concern is the processing product’s success in the food market. Therefore, its equipment. Milk companies often produce formula is always a highly guarded secret of the chocolate milk on the same equipment that they company. Even a minuscule change in the formula use for their plain “white” milk. The chocolate of a product where favoring is concerned can milk may contain malt, which is made from grain. prove to be disastrous. Therefore, it is not surprising In order to avoid these problems, two steps are that these companies guard their favorings very necessary. First, it is necessary to make sure that the carefully making it necessary to have a Mashgiach dairy company whose milk we purchase for Pesach (supervising Rabbi) go to the plant to personally processes only plain “white” milk and not chocolate check the favorings being used. In regard to Pesach, milk. Secondly, the milk that we need for all of it is also important to note that even within the Pesach must be bought before Pesach. By doing same company (Coke, Pepsi, etc.) any individual so, the vitamins in the milk are deemed “batel” bottling plant throughout the country may choose (annuled) from before Pesach (since Bitul works if to use corn syrup as a sweetener. For this reason the mixture occurs before Pesach), and therefore, as well, it is essential that a reliable Mashgiach may be used on Pesach. Whenever possible, be on the premises during production. There are certifed Kosher for Passover milk is preferable. thousands of favorings used by the food industry, not all of which are Kosher (let alone for Pesach). MILK SUBSTITUTES Some, such as ambergris (from whale intestines) Many people i.e. infants, elderly, those who are and civit absolute (from cats) are, of course, never ill etc. often warrant consuming kitniyos but not Kosher. Even if an individual knows that a soda is Chometz. The following products (partial list) are reliably certifed Kosher for Pesach in one particular free of actual Chometz: city, this does not mean that the same brand of soda is Kosher elsewhere. Infant Formula - Alsoy, CVS, EnfaCare, Enfamil, Enfapro, Giant, Heinz Nurture, Isomil, Mother’s Note: Commonly, Coke and others will be reliably Choice, Nestle Good Start, Next Step, ProSobee, certifed for Pesach. The bottle, however, may list Rite Aid, Safeway Select, Similac, Target, Walgreens, “corn syrup/sugar” as an ingredient. As long as the Wegmens’. product bears a reliable Pesach certifcation, the soda has been reformulated to meet all Pesach Soy Milk - 365 Everyday Value (original, Light and concerns. Unsweetened), Fit & Active, Hy-Vee, Market Basket (unsweetened), Meijer, Nature’s Place, Nature’s Note: Coke is being produced for Pesach in Promise Organic, Shop Rite, Stop & Shop. California this year. Coke will be available in Boston, Baltimore-Washington, Miami and Atlanta as well. Almond Milk - 365 Everyday Value, Kroger, Market All the Passover Coke items will be marked with Basket, Meijer, Nature’s Place, Ralphs, Shop Rite, a distinctive yellow cap in addition to the O/UP Trader Joe’s. symbol on the cap or shoulder of the bottle. Rice Milk - Original Clearly Organic, Harris Teeter, EGGS Krasdale Organic, Meijer, Nature’s Promise, Rice Dream (unsweetened only), Shop Rite. It is best to buy eggs that were laid before Pesach. This is due to the fact that chickens are usually given Note: all of the above are best in liquid form and feed which is Chometz. Therefore, there is a minhag bought before Pesach. (custom) not to eat eggs which were laid on Pesach. OIL Note: Eggs do not require a Hechscher, even when Oil from olives, palm, coconut and walnuts are 12 acceptable for Pesach with a proper that is presently being used in pharmaceuticals and Kosher for Pesach Hashgacha. This is some food products certifed Kosher. Fortunately, because the fruits they are extracted from is not a truly reliable certifed Kosher gelatin obtained kitniyos. Minchas Yitzchok (lll:138:2) suggests that from Glatt Kosher hides is being produced under cottonseed oil is kitniyos, but in a subsequent the supervision of the O/U. This gelatin is used by teshuva (IV:113:3), he reconsiders this position. In Tzali’s, Golden Fluf, Manischewitz and Granny’s the U.S., cottonseed oil is generally not considered marshmallow brands. to be kitniyos but in Eretz Yisroel there are those Today, much of the gelatin produced in the U.S. is who refrain from using it. made from the skin or hides of pigs, since It is much Extra Virgin Olive Oil with reliable Hashgacha cheaper than making gelatin from cow bones. (year-round) Is recommended for Pesach use, even Fish gelatin, therefore is the most commonly-used without special Pesach certifcation. Kosher gelatin in modern times. The Gemorah Pesachim 76b says that it is dangerous to eat meat SUPERMARKETS and fsh together. Nevertheless, many Poskim allow One of the major conveniences that is enjoyed fsh marshmallows with meat since the amount of in many parts of the United States, is being able gelatin (fsh based) is very little and considered to to shop in our large National supermarket chains be “Batel”. Therefore, it is common today to fnd for Kosher items all year and in particular, for Kosher Marshmallows with Kosher “fsh” gelatin, Pesach. Along with this convenience, however, under reliable Hashgachas. comes a responsibility to check well for the Pesach certifcation on each item we buy. It is not PET FOOD uncommon for non-Pesach items to be found on the Pesach designated shelves. One of the many challenges of Pesach is fnding Halachically permissible pet food. There are two MARSHMALLOWS & GELATINS separate Kashrus issues about which one should be Although many “Kosher for Passover“ marshmallows aware. One is related specifcally to Pesach, and the are presumably made without Chometz ingredients, other related to the rest of the year as well. The year nevertheless, they may contain an ingredient which round problem concerns the mixing of milk and is highly controversial (for year round use), namely, meat. It says three times in the Torah “Lo Sevashel gelatin. The main sources of gelatin are cattle and Gedee Bachalev Imo”. Literally, this is a prohibition hogs. The process of making gelatin is as follows: against cooking milk and meat together. However, the collagen in the bones and skins of the animals from the fact that the Torah states this three times, is converted by soaking 2” x 3” strips of hide in and uses the term Gedee (kid), the Gemorah hydrochloric acid until it turns into ossein. This is (Talmud) in Chulin (113A 115B) explains this to then soaked in lime for about a month. It is then mean that milk from any Kosher species and meat washed in sulfuric acid to obtain the gelatin. from any Kosher species (i.e. beef mixed with cow’s milk or goat’s milk etc.) are forbidden to: a) be In 1912, Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzenski ZT”L sent a cooked together, b) be eaten together, c) derive response to the Royal Gelatin Company concerning beneft or pleasure from them. These prohibitions the methods of obtaining Kosher gelatin from (from the Torah) do not apply to poultry or venison. non Kosher hides. Additionally, in 1950, Rav Lazer In order to avoid confusion, the Rabanan (Rabbis) Silver vehemently opposed the hechsher on a extended the prohibition of eating milk and meat well known gelatin product. In 1966, Rav Moshe together to include poultry and venison. However, Feinstein ZT”L, and Rav Aaron Kotler ZT”L both deriving beneft from poultry mixed with milk was opposed all gelatins that were not obtained from not included in this decree. Therefore, chicken with a Kosher source. Kosher gelatin, from Kosher whey, milk or cheese is permissible in pet food. slaughtered animals, tends to be too expensive for large companies to produce. This is the reason that Commonly, dog and cat foods contain milk and the O/U, O/K, Star-K and other reliable certifying meat mixtures, and therefore, are forbidden to agencies insist upon a gelatin substitute in products Jewish pet owners all year round. There is an which would otherwise need gelatin. Marshmallows additional problem for a Jew who is a pet owner are a prime example of such a product. Some during Pesach. The basis for this problem is that acceptable substitutes for gelatin are: Japanese Chometz carries with it three “Isurim” (prohibitions) gelatin, Japanese insinglass, agar agar, Chinese a) Hanaah (beneft), b) Ownership, c) Baal Yimatze moss, Irish moss, carrageenan. Surprisingly, there is (it must be completely removed from a person’s even one marshmallow product being sold which premises). A person who owns a pet is obligated states “Kosher Beef Gelatin” which is produced to feed It in a timely manner, and due to the from dried beef bones from India, which were not prohibition of deriving any pleasure or beneft Kosher slaughtered. There is a new type of fsh gel from Chometz, we are not permitted to use or 13

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Salmon Dinner Almost all dry pet foods list wheat or oats as their Kirkland: (Costco) (dry): Healthy Weight Indoor frst ingredient. This is true for fsh food and bird Adult, Maintenance Chicken & Rice, Natures Domain foods as well. Salmon Meal & Sweet Potato. Note: Only clay or wood-based Kitty Litter may be Kosher Paws - Turkey & Chicken Cat Food (No used on Pesach, as others may contain Chometz. Kitniyos or Gebrokts - O/UP) Additional Animal-Related Concern: Often the Merrick Grain Free Limited Ingredient Diet products that one may purchase at a local zoo to (canned): Real Chicken, Real Duck, Real Salmon, Real feed the animals contain Chometz and should not Turkey, Real Tuna. be purchased or fed to the animals on Pesach. Merrick Purrfect Bistro Grain-Free (dry): Adult CAT FOOD (Healthy Weight, Real Chicken and Sweet Potato), Blue Freedom Grain Free (canned): Chicken for Healthy Senior, Healthy Kitten 14 Merrick Purrfect Bistro Grain-Free BIRDS (canned): Chicken Casserole Morsels, (Parrots, Parakeets, Cocktiels, Canaries and Macaws) Chicken Divan, Morsels Salmon Pate, Tuna Pate. Millet, canary grass seed and sorghum as main diet. Prescription Diet: a/d, d/d except duck, m/d canned only, r/d, s/d, t/d, z/d. Peanuts, sunfower seeds and safower seeds Wellness Core Grain Free (dry): Adult, Indoor, Kitten, Larger birds such as parrots can eat pure alfalfa Original pellets (make sure it is pure alfalfa since it is common to add grains) or dry dog approved dog Wellness Core Grain-Free Classic Pate (canned): food. Indoor, Kitten, Whitefsh & Salmon & Herring. Smaller birds can also have pure alfalfa pellets, crush DOG FOOD before feeding Alpo Chop House (canned): Filet mignon and Can supplement with cottage cheese, rice cakes Bacon Flavors cooked in Savory Juices, Prime Rib (birds like these), small pieces of lean meat, matzah, Flavor cooked in Savory Juices, Roasted Chicken and berries, eggs, canned baby fruits. All large food Top Sirloin Flavors cooked in Savory Juices, T-Bone should be shredded before serving. And these Steak and Ribeye favors cooked in Savory Juices. items should be given sparingly. Blue Freedom Grain Free (canned): Duck & Chicken For minerals, can only have oyster shells (calcium) or Grill, Salmon & Chicken Grill, Beef & Chicken Grill. mineral block. Blue Wilderness Grain Free (canned): Duck & HAMSTERS, GUINEA PIGS, GERBILS & chicken grill, salmon & chicken grill, turkey & RABBITS chicken grill. It is best to feed pure alfalfa pellets to these animals. Evangers: When bearing cRc Passover approval. Make sure the pellets are pure alfalfa since it is Kirkland (Costco) Nature’s Domain (dry): Salmon common to add grains. Dried alfalfa may also be Meal and Sweet Potato, Turkey Meal and Sweet given. Potato. One can also supplement with mixture of cut-up Kosher Paws - Turkey and Chicken Dog Food (No fruits and vegetables such as: carrots, broccoli, Kitniyos or Gebrokts - O/UP) apples, melon, kale, parsley, oranges, celery, dry corn, sunfower seeds and cabbage. One can also Mighty Dog: (canned - no gravy): Chicken Egg & give Matzah. If the animal is not used to eating any Bacon Country Platter, Chicken & Smoked Bacon of these Items, give sparingly. Combo, Hearty Beef Dinner, with Lamb and Rice. Guinea pigs, rabbits & chinchillas especially will Wellness Core Grain Free (dry): Ocean, Original, beneft from greens, oranges, Timothy hay, grapes, Reduced Fat, Small Breed. apples and melons. Guinea pigs will particularly Wellness Core Grain Free (canned): Beef & Venison beneft from kale, parsley and oranges. & Lamb, Puppy, Turkey & Chicken Liver & Turkey Hamsters especially will beneft from apples. Liver, Whitefsh & Salmon & Herring Guinea pigs will especially beneft from kale, parsley Wellness Core Grain Free Ninety Five Percent and oranges as well as vitamin C added to their diet. (canned): Beef with Carrots, Chicken with Broccoli, Turkey with Spinach. Mice and rats will eat sunfower seeds, greens, vegetables and potatoes. FISH FOOD MORE PET FOOD INFORMATION Fish food and vacation blocks often contain chometz. The following are acceptable fsh food for Mixes sold in stores often contain chometz. It is Pesach: advisable for pet owners to slowly wean their pets of their regular chometz pet food diet. This is best Zoo Med Laboratories Giant Plankton Banquet accomplished by mixing regular and Pesach food Block Feeder and Tetra Tropical Slow Release Gel between one and two weeks before Pesach before Feeders (Tetra Weekend 5 days and Tetra Vacation switching completely to Pesach food. The ratio of 14 days). Goldfsh and tropical fsh can be fed the regular and Pesach food should be changed slowly following (provided they do not contain fllers): to get the animal used to the new diet. Check with Tubular worms, frozen brine shrimp and freeze your vet before changing your pet’s diet.Also, pure dried worms. Timothy Hay is NOT chometz and may be used. GECKO Note: One may shop at Petco and Petsmart stores Repashy Crested Gecko Meal Replacement Powder. immediately after Pesach. 15 ITEMS THAT MAY BE Step, Prosobee, Similac, Stop & Shop, Target, Walgreens, Wegmans USED WITHOUT PESACH Baby food - Gerber (O/U): Carrots, Squash. For CERTIFICATION those permitted Kitniyos: Green Beans, Peas Baby Oil - All pure (FOR 5780-2020) Baby Ointment - All (according to the O/U) Abdominal Discomfort - Alka - Seltzer, Gelusil Baby Medicine - Pedialyte, Pedia-Sure, Tempra tablets, Diclegis (for nausea and vomiting of Drops & Tablets pregnancy - COR), Metamucil (original texture Baby Powder - All pure Talcum Powders (such regular favor - powder only, not wafers or Fibar), as Johnsons) - Any not listing oat four as an Phillips Milk of Magnesia (unfavored), Di-Gel ingredient. (Kitiniyos), Pepcid, Pepto Bismol (Original Liquid, Baby Wipes - All without alcohol (such as Johnson’s Chewables, Caplets), Rolaids (animal glycerin and Baby Washcloth) Kitniyos), Bicarbonate of Soda, Zantac (not liquid), Baby Carrots - see vegetables Imodium, Gas-X Bags (paper and plastic) - All Agave - Health Garden Organic Raw Agave Sweetener (O/K) Baking Soda (NOT Baking Powder) - All pure bicarbonate Air Freshener - All Baking Pans (aluminum) - All uncoated without Alcohol - All Isopropyl release agent Alcoholic Beverages - Patron Silver Tequila, Balloons - Without any powder Vinprom-Troyan Brandy - apple, apricot, pear and plum (Star-K) Band Aids - All (including medicated) Almond Milk Original - (Kitniyos - To be used only Bleach - All for the infrm and children who need an alternative Bird Food - (see above “Pet Food” section) to standard milk on Pesach. Utensils used for Blush (make up) - All powdered this product should be washed separately) 365 Body Wash - All Everyday Value (O/U), Almond Breeze Original Boric Acid - All & Unsweetened (O/U), Almondsense (O/U), Cal- Pure Almond Meal Blanched-Raw (O/U), Essential Bowl and Tub Cleaners - All Everyday (O/U), FredMeyer (O/U), Fresh & Easy Breath Strips - Require Kosher for Pesach (O/U), Friendly Farms (O/U), Full Circle (O/U), Golden certifcation - Kitniyos Orchard (O/U), H-E-B (O/U), Hy-Vee (O/U), Laura Lynn Buckwheat Airline Pillows - Kitniyos, not Chometz (O/U), Market Basket (O/U), Meijer (O/U), Natural Candles - All pure unscented Direction (O/U), Nature’s Place (O/U), Paramount Cat Food - see Pet Food article. Farms Meal (O/U), Price Chopper (O/U), Roundy’s (O/U), Shop Rite (O/U), Silk (O/U), So Delicious Cardboard - All Unsweetened (O/U), Sunnyside Farms (O/U), Tree of Carpet Cleaners - All Life (O/U), Winn-Dixie (O/U). Charcoal Briquettes - (for a barbeque) - All Almond Flour/Meal: Blue Diamond Growers Fine (including favored) and X-Fine Blanched and Natural Almond Flour Cheesecloths - All (O/K) Chia Seeds - Any raw without additives (check seeds Aluminum Foil and Pans - All uncoated without before Pesach for any other grain that may be mixed release agent in). Navitas (Earth K) is one example Ant & Roach Spray - All Cleansers - All (i.e. Ajax, Bab-O, Fantastic,) Antacid - Tums (Kitniyos), Zantac, Pepcid, Rolaids Cocoa Powder - Any domestically-poroduced 100% (contains animal glycerin and Kitniyos) pure cocoa, with no additives, may be used. Ammonia - All Coconut Aminos/Crystal - Coconut Secret (Star-K) Aluminum Disposable Containers - All uncoated Coconut Chips/Flakes - Arya (Star-K) Coconut Chips, without release agent Aunt Patty’s (Star-K), Cocozia (Star-K), Epicurex Baby Formula - (should be prepared in separate (Star-K), Trader Joes Flakes & Chips (Kosher Check) utensils, away from Pesach kitchen area, as they (unsweetened) contain Kitniyos) 365 Everyday Value, Ameribella, Coconut Cream - Trader Joes American’s Choice For Baby, Babies R Us, Baby Coconut Crystals - Coconut Secret (Star-K) Basics, Baby’s Choice, Carnation Alsoy, CVS, Earth’s Coconut Flour - Coconut Secrets (Star-K), Cocozia Best, EnfaCare, Enfamil, Gerber Good Start, Giant, (Star-K), Epicurex (Star-K), Trader Joes (Kosher Heinz Nurture, Isomil, Meijer, Mother’s Choice, Next Check) (unsweetened) 16 Coconut Milk - Requires Hashgacha for Cold Medication - Children’s Cold Tylenol, Excedrin Pesach. But, for the infrm and children Sinus, Vicks Nyquil & Dayquil Cold/Flu, Vicks 44 who need an alternative to regular milk on Pesach (including 44D, 44E, 44M), Chapstick Cold Sore if Coconut Milk with Hashgacha is unavailable the Therapy, Triaminic - HCTZ, Blistex, Neosporin, following may be used: Coconut Dream Original Claritin, Afrin Nasal Spray Variety (O/U), Trader Joes (reduced fat and regular) Conditioners - All Coconut Oil (see “oils”) - All O/U Virgin Coconut Oils Contact Lens Fluid - All need no special Hashgacha for Pesach. Cooking Spray - Pompeian Avocado & Grapeseed Coconut (shredded) - All Unsweetened & Oil (Star-K) Unfavored Copper Cleaner - All (i.e. Hagerty (O/U) etc.) Coconut Sugar/Nectar - Coconut Secrets Crystals Cork - All (Star-K) Health Garden (O/U), Navitas (Earth K), Cosmetics (except possibly lipstick) - All (according Sweet Tree (Earth K) to the O/U) Coconut Vinegar - Coconut Secret (Star-K) Cough Medicine - Corricidin, Scot-Tussin Cofee (Beans/Ground) - Regular only - NOT Cream of Tartar - Gel Spice (O/U), Spiceco (O/U), Decafeinated) Do not require special Passover Saratoga (O/U), Pacifc Natural Spices (O/U) certifcation. However, the grinder must be cleaned well. Crockpot Liner - All Cofee (Instant - Regular Unfavored) - Folgers, Cups – All paper, plastic or styrofoam Nescafe Taster’s Choice (O/U), Via (O/U) Cupcake Holders (foil) – All Cofee (Instant - Decafeinated Unfavored) - Cupcake Holders - Paper - Paperchef (Star-K) Folgers Decaf (O/U) Deli - Empire, Solomon’s Company Bufalo (O/U) Cofee K-cups - Follows general rules of all cofee. Dental Floss - All unfavored brands (waxed or Some examples: Barista Prima Cofeehouse unwaxed) Colombia (O/U), Caribou Colombia, Mahogany, Denture Cleansers - Polident, Fixodent, Super Poli- Obsidian & Sumatra K-Cup - unfavored, not decaf Grip (O/U), Cofee People 100% Colombian, & Morning Deodorant – All powder and solid stick powder may Blend - Unfavored and not decaf (O/U), Donut be used. i.e.: Arid Extra Dry, Secret, Sure, Jean Nate, House (O/U), Dunkin’ Donuts (with O/U symbol Tom’s, Right Guard Aerosol - (not sport original), Old only), Eight O’clock (with O/U symbol only), Green Spice body spray Mountain Vista , Holiday Blend, Breakfast Blend, Dark Magic & Guatemalan Huehuetenango (O/U), Detergent (Clothes) - All (i.e. Amway & Shaklee Hanna K (with O/U symbol only), Newman’s Own (Basic G Germicide, Basic H Concentrate Organic Organic (O/U), Peet’s Big Bang, Holiday Blend, Cleaner, Get Clean Basic H2 Organic Super Cleaning Nicaragua Adelante & Yosemite Organic - unfavored Concentrate, Get Clean Basic H2 Organic Wipes, Get not decaf (O/U), Private Selection (with O/U only), Clean Scour Of Heavy Duty Paste), Ajax, Tide, All, Seattle’s Best (with O/U symbol only), Seattle’s Best Fab, Windex etc.) Cofee Portside Blend & Post Alley (O/U), Starbucks Dish Detergent – Ajax, Amway, Cascade, Dawn, regular (with O/U symbol only) i.e. Breakfast Blend, Ivory, Joy, Mr. Corn, Palmolive Tim Hortons Premium Blend (O/U), Timothy’s World Dishwasher Detergent - All (with reliable Kashrus Cofee Salvador, Breakfast Blend, Morning Blend, symbol) Tully’s Breakfast Blend, Colombia, Hawaiian Blend, Diapers - All Kona Blend & Italian Roast K-Cup - unfavored, not Dog Food - (See “Pet Food” article) decaf (O/U) Note: A dedicated-for-Pesach cofee brewing machine is necessary. Drain Openers - All Cofee Nespresso Capsules - This product is under Dried Fruits – Albertson’s Raisins, Aunt Patty’s Basel Kosher Commission (Rabbi Levinger) year- (Star-K), Dole Raisins, Gocmez (Apricots & Figs round and does NOT require a special certifcation - Star-K), Happy Apricots (Star-K), Kirici (Star-K), for Pesach. This product-line includes Nespresso Kroger Raisins, Natural Food Source (Star-K), Nimeks Classic (NC) Range, Nespresso Professional (NP) (Star-K), Ralph’s Raisins, Sereno (Star-K), Smart Range and Nespresso Vertuo Harvest (Star-K), Sunny Fruit (Star-K), Sunsational Fruits (St ar-K), Sunrose (Star-K), Trader Joe’s (Raisins, Cofee (freeze dried, regular unfavored, not Decaf Bing Cherries, Fancy Dried Nectarines, Fancy Dried or Chicory) Folgers (O/U), Nescafe Tasters Choice, Pears) National Brands (Star-K), Starbucks Via (O/U) Eggs – All (including eggs with Omega 3, citric acid Cofee (Iced/Cold Brew) - Dunkin Donuts Dark and egg salted egg yolks) - Although eggs have Roast Iced Cofee (O/U), The Chosen Bean (ORB) been exposed to Chometz chicken feed, the water/ Cofee Filter - All unfavored 17 mineral cleaning solution removes the Chometz also. These grains should also be carefully before Pesach. It is therefore, preferable to purchase checked before Pesach for any residue. already/cleaned eggs before Pesach. Hair Gels, Mousse - All Egg Products - All Hair Removers/Treatments - All Eye Drops - All Hairspray - All Eye Shadow / Eye Liner - All brands without grain Hand Sanitizers - Due to Coronavirus concerns, ingredients this year any may be used. It should be purchased Fabric Protectors - All before Pesach (according to Star-K) Fabric Softener - All Headache/fever - Advil (not flm coated) ,Bayer Face powder - All aspirin, Motrin Caplets or Tablets, Tylenol tablets or Fireplace Log - All unscented brands Caplets Fish (Raw, Frozen) - All raw fsh (not coated or Hemp - Check thoroughly for any possible mixed-in ground) is best purchased with a Kosher for Pesach grains Hechsher (due to possible glazing). However, in Household Cleanser - All (i.e. Fantastic, Glass Plus, the absence of Certifed for Pesach fsh that is easily Lysol, Sunlight etc.) available, all fresh or frozen fsh, except for ground, Hydrogen Peroxide - All are acceptable after washing before Pesach. Some Ice - Unfavored - All examples are: Kirkland Signature Frozen Skinless Infant formula O/U certifed (contains Kitniyos Boneless Farmed Atlantic Salmon Portions (O/U), not Chometz - O/U has Identifed these brands Kirkland Frozen Skinless Boneless Wild Sockeye as halachically acceptable for infants and those Salmon Portions (O/U, Levittown (Star-K) Note: raw who are ill. These products must bear an O/U or fsh always requires good kosher certifcation or at O/Ud symbol) 365 Everyday Value, Babies R Us, least to still have some scales attached to It. Baby Basics, Baby’s Choice, Bear Essentials, Belecta Flax Seed - (Check seeds thoroughly before Pesach (regular and premium), Berkeley & Jensen, Bright for any possible mixed-in grains). Beginnings, CVS, Cottontails, Daily Sour Discount Fruit (Frozen) - All without additives i.e. citric acid Drug Mart, Earth’s Best, Enfacare, Enfalac, Enfamil, or ascorbic acid. This applies to fruits that do not Food Lion, Full Circle, Gerber Good Start, Giant, have bug issues (such as strawberries etc.). Those Hannaford, H-E-B, Heinz Nurture, Hy-Vee, Isomil, may be used only when bearing approved Kosher Kirkland Signature, Kuddles, Laura Lynn, Life Brand, supervision. No additional Pesach symbol is Little Ones, Meijer Baby, Member’s Mark, Mom required. To Mom, My Organic Baby, Nature’s Place, Nestle Fruit (Packaged - Dried) - Aunt Patty’s (Star-K), Good Start, Next Step, Nutraenfant, O Organic Baby, Calavo Pitted and Whole Dates, Gocmez Apricots Parent’s Choice, President’s Choice, Price Chopper, (Star-K), Happy Apricots (Star-K), Kirici (Star-K ), Publix, Rite Aid - Tugaboos, Shopko, Similac, Simply Natural Food Source (Star-K), Nimeks (Star-K), Safari Right, Stop & Shop, Supervalu, Target, Top Care, Dried Fruit, Smart Harvest (Star-K), Sunny Fruit Topco, Up and Up, Walgreens, Wegman’s, Well (Star-K), Sunsational Fruits (Star-K), Sunrose (Star-K), Beginnings, Western Family Sun World Pitted or Whole Dates, Sunglow Pitted or Insect Sprays - All Whole Dates, American Eagle Apricots, Sun-Sational Isopropyl Alcohol - All Snacks (apricots), Sunny Fruit (Star-K), Trader Joe’s - Jewelry Polish - All raisins, bing cherries, fancy dried nectarines, fancy Juice (frozen) - Any brand 100% pure white dried pears, Zoria Dried Apples & Mixed Fruit grapefruit (not pink) or orange frozen juices, without Furniture Polish - All sweeteners, additives, preservatives or enrichments Garbage Bags - All (i.e. calcium) added may be used. All other frozen Gasoline - All (even Ethenol with corn) juice products require reliable KFP certifcation. For Glass Cleaner - All Example: Cascadian Farm Organic Orange Juice Glue - Elmer’s White glue (not paste), Krazy glue, Frozen Concentrate (with O/U symbol only), Kroger Ross glue 100% Juice Orange Frozen Concentrated with Pulp (with O/U symbol only) Goji - Navitas Natural Goji Berries (with no additives - Earth K) Lactaid Capsules - May contain Chometz and may not be used on Pesach. Goldenberries - Navitas Naturals Goldenberries (with no additives - Earth K) Lactaid Milk may be used on Pesach if purchased BEFORE Pesach due to Bittul (may contain small Grains - Flax and hemp (whole grains only) may be amounts of actual Chometz) used on Pesach. They should be purchased from manufacturers that do not process Chometz grains Lactaid Drops - (NOT Tablets) If needed, it must be added to milk or other dairy products before 18 Pesach. meat), Solomon’s (all Solomon’s ground beef, in Laundry Detergents - All the original packaging, including ground) (O/U), Lemon Juice - Real-Lemon Juice (O/U) Teva Meats (O/U Glatt - including ground), Yaakov’s Premium Meats including ground (O/U Glatt) Lip Balm/Conditioner - All Medical Supplements/Kitniyos (O/U - Only For Lime Juice - Real Lime (O/U) Those who are Halachically Permitted) - Ensure Liquor/Liqueur - Vinprom-Troyan (Star-K) Complete Nutrition Shake, Ensure Healthy Mom Liver (broiled) - excluding ground. Birdsboro Shake, Ensure High Calcium Shake, Ensure High Kosher Farms Protein Shake, Ensure HN, Ensure Homemade Lotion - All Shake, Ensure Plus, Ensure Plus HN, Ensure Plus Mascara - All (without grain ingredients) Next Generation, Ensure Shake, Ensure Twocal, Nutrisource Benefber, Resource Milk Shake Mix Meat - All raw meats (not coated or ground) are best purchased with a Kosher for Pesach Hechsher. Milk - It is preferable to buy Kosher for Passover However, in the absence of Certifed for Pesach milk, otherwise any brand purchased BEFORE meat that is easily available, all meats, except for Pesach from a company that does not process ground, are acceptable after washing before Pesach chocolate milk on the same machinery may be (NOT over a Kosher for Pesach sink). Alle/Meal Mart used on Pesach as long as it doesn’t contain and Solomon’s do not need washing, even without monodiglycerides or dextrose. Those companies Pesach certifcation. Anash Raw Meat (O/U Glatt) from which we can buy milk in the Los Angeles area when raw & in original manufacturer’s packaging, before Pesach are: Alta Dena, Formost, Jerseymaid, Solomon’s Glatt Kosher Beef and Lamb Meat Raw, Knudson, Ralph’s, Stater Brothers, Vons Pavilions. including ground beef (1 lb. square blocks, 3 x 1 Note: Milk certifed Kosher for all year is certifed for lbs square blocks and 5 lbs in clear vacuum bag Passover only when indicated. (O/U Glatt) when raw in original manufacturer’s Milk Dry/Powdered- Nonfat without additives packaging, Teva Meat (O/U Glatt) when raw & in before Pesach. original manufacturer’s packaging Mineral Oil - All The following are brands of meat in Manufactured Moisturizer - All Packaging that are Kosher for Pesach without Mouthwash - Colgate, Listerine (plain, Zero, and special Pesach Certifcation… Listermint), Scope, Tom’s of Main, Amway (not the A.D. Rosenblatt Beef and Lamb - unprocessed, Amway Glister Anti Plaque Flouride), Colegate including ground meat (O/U), Aaron’s Best (Raw, Nail Polish/Remover - All unprocessed, excluding ground meat) O/U, Alle/ Napkins - All Meal Mart (O/U Glatt) excluding ground, Beth Yosef Raw Beef excluding ground (O/U Glatt), Birdsboro Nuts - All raw, whole or chopped almonds, walnuts, Kosher Farms including ground (O/U Glatt), Black pine nuts, without BHA, BHT or other additives, Hill Farms (Star-K), Glatt Ranch - (Ground Beef or preservatives are approved for Pesach use. requires a “P” designation for Passover use: Glatt However, if the label states that it is processed in a Ranch whole meat requires Passover certifcation plant that processes Kitniyos or Chometz, then it or the meat needs to be rinsed before using on requires a reliable Kosher For Pesach certifcation. Pesach) (Star K Glatt), Grow & Behold - Lamb, Rose Whole pecans and half pecans do NOT require Veal, Beef (This product is certifed Kosher only Kosher for Pesach certifcation. However, pecan when packaged with the inner and outer label or pieces and midget pecans must bear a Kosher seal bearing the Star-K symbol. All Grow & Behold for Pesach symbol due to processing. All dry products under the Star-K are certifed Chalak Beit roasted nuts and ground nuts require reliable KFP Yosef when marked /Beit Yosef (Star K Glatt), D. certifcation. Gruenspecht excluding ground (O/U), Heartland The following are some Star-K Nuts that may be Kosher (including ground) (O/U Glatt), Kol Foods used without special Pesach certifcation (only Raw Meat, including ground, are Kosher for Pesach Star-K): Allmac Hazelnuts , Atlas Walnut, Cascade with no additional marking required (Star-K), Hazelnuts, Nature’s Original, Pacifc Gold Nut Co., Lamm’s Raw Beef (including ground meat) (O/U Poindexter Nut Walnuts, Stahmann’s (Star-K) Glatt), M&D Glatt (Star-K), Prime (Star-K), Regal The following are some O/U Nuts that may be used Foods (ground beef Kosher L’Pesach) (Star-K), for Pesach without special Pesach certifcation Romanian (beef and lamb - including ground) (O/U (only O/U required): Ashdon Farms (brazil Glatt), Rosenblatt (meats & ground beef usable nuts), Cal-Best (walnuts), Cal-Pure (almond meal for Passover if purchased after FEb. 10, 2020 with blanched-raw), Cal-Wal (walnuts), California Royale no special Kosher for Passover label necessary), (almonds), CVS Abound (walnuts), Diamond and Schreiber Raw Beef excluding ground (O/U Glatt), Diamond of California (almonds, mixed nuts, Shor Habor (raw unprocessed excluding ground walnuts), Elizabeth’s Naturals (brazil nuts, cashews, 19 pistachios), Emerald (walnuts), Golden Kernel (brazil Viginia (Star-K), Weis (O/U), Winn Dixie nuts), Golden Orchards (almond meal blanched (Star-K), Zoe (Star-K) - raw,) Great Value (almonds), Kirkland Signature Oil - Palm - Unrefned Nutriva Red Palm (O/U) (raw walnuts), Paramount Farms (pistachios diced Oil Spray - Glicks Vegetable Oil Spray (O/U), unsalted-raw) Pompeian (Star-K) The following are some O/K Nuts that may be used Onions frozen chopped - Any pure or fresh for Pesach without special Pesach certifcation: chopped refrigerated Ready Pac Brand Blue Diamond Growers blanched, diced, whole and Oven Cleaner - All (i.e. Easy Of and Shaklee) broken Almonds Oven Cooking Bag - Best Choice Slow Cooker Liners Nut Flour/Meal - Barneys Basics Almond Flour (O/U), (O/U), Everyday Chef Slow Cooker Liners (O/U), Cal-Pure Almond Meal Blanched-Raw (O/U), Golden Reynolds microwave bags` Orchard Almond Meal-Raw (O/U), Paramount Farms Almond Meal-Raw and Pistachio Meal Unsalted - Pain Medication - Ast Tabs, Aleve (Caplets - Blue Raw (O/U) Pill), Bayer Aspirin (Tabs, Low-Dose Chewables 81 mg. (cherry, orange), Buferin, Excedrin (plain, Oil (Avocado) - Chosen Foods (O/U), De La Rosa migraine & sinus), Motrin, St. Joseph adult chewable, (Star-K), Pompeian (Star-K) Tylenol (Regular Strength Tablets, Extra Strength Oil (Coconut) - Note: All O/U certifed Virgin Caplets & Children’s Suspension (Cherry, Infants Oral Coconut Oils need to special Hashgacha for use Suspension (Grape). j on Pesach) Some examples are: Agrilife (O/U), Paintball - contains no Chometz Alofa (O/U), Aunt Patty’s (O/U), Bali’Sun (O/U), Betterbody Foods (O/U), Ciabara (O/U), Crescent Paper Bakeware (i.e. cupcake holders etc.) - Hanna (O/U), Enviro (O/U), Fairway (O/U), Food Club (O/U), K Signature (O/U), Lilac (O/U), Paperchef (Star-K), Full Circle Market (O/U), GNC Superfoods (O/U), Reynolds (O/U) Hain Pure Foods (O/U), Happy Belly (O/U), Harvest Paper Cups - All styrofoam, plastic or cardboard. Bay (O/U), Harvest Farms (O/U), Healthy Origins Georgia Pacifc (O/U), Publix 8 oz. Paper Hot Cups (O/U), Island Fresh (O/U), Kirkland Organic (O/U), (O/U), Solo 8 oz. Hot Cups (O/U), Solo 9 oz. Cold Laura Lynn (O/U), Lowes Foods (O/U), Lucky Vitamin Drink Cup (O/U), Solo 16 oz. DSP Paper Cups (O/U), (O/U), Natural Value (O/U), Nutiva Organic (O/U), Solo 16 oz. SSPHot Cups (O/U), O Organics (O/U), Organic Fields (O/U), Richard’s Paper Doilies - Hanna K. Signature Elements (O/U Signature Provisions (O/U), Rockwell’s Organic - pareve) (O/U), Roland (O/U), Shurfne (Topco) (O/U), Simply Paper (Freezer) - Everyday Chef (O/U), H-E-B (O/U), Nature (O/U), Simply Truth (O/U), Sorrento (O/U), Meijer (O/U), Reynolds (O/U) Spectrum Organic (O/U), Spectrum Culinary Paper - Pan Lining Paper - Reynolds Wrap (O/U) (O/U), Thai Coco (O/U), The Fresh Market (O/U), Thrive Market (O/U), Velma (O/U), Viola (Star-K), Paper (Plate/Bowls) - All Coated Viva Naturals (O/U), Vita (O/U), Vitacost (O/U), Viva Paper (Parchment) - 365 Everyday Value (Star-K), Naturals (O/U), Wellsley Farms (O/U) Western Family Airbake (Star- K), Artbake (Star-K), Bagcraft (Star- (O/U) K),Big Y (O/U), Brown Paper Goods (Star-K), Carefree Oil (Grape Seed) - De La Rosa (Star-K), Pompeian (Star-K), Carnation (Star-K), Castaway, Central Coated (Star K) Products (Star-K), Chef Le Bon (Star-K), Chef’’s Pride (O/U),Companions (Star-K), Cysco, D&W Finepack Oil (Olive- Extra Virgin Only) - The O/U policy is (Star-K), Domestix (O/U), Essential Everyday (O/U) , that all extra Virgin Olive Oils with an O/U do not Everyday Chef (O/U), First Mark (Star-K), First Value require special Pesach certifcation. Star-K policy (Star-K), Gefen (O/U), Geula (O/U), Great Value (O/U), agrees only with certain brands, such as: Ahold Harris Teeter (O/U), HEB (O/U), Homelife (O/U), USA (Star-K), Apollo (O/U), Atlas (O/U), Aunt Patty’s Home Sense (O/U), Hy-Vee (O/U), Kirkland, Master (Star-K), Baci de Oliva (Star-K), Bella Vina (Star-K), Baker (Star-K), Meijer (O/U), Member’s Mark (O/U), Bellissimo (Star-K), Bivona (Star-K), Botticelli (Star-K), Paper Chef (Star-K), Norpak (Star-K), Our Family Casale (Star-K), Clover Valley (O/U), Cora (Star-K), De (O/U), Paperchef (Star-K), Prime Source, Publix Profundis (Star-K), Donio (Star-K), , Egregio (Star-K), (O/U), Reynolds (O/U), Roundy’s (O/U), Saga Baking Essential Everyday (Star-K), Estepa Virgen (Star-K), Paper (Star-K), Signature Select (O/U), Simply Done Fragata (O/U), Giannoulis (Star-K), HEB (O/U), La (O/U), The Pampered Chef (Star-K), Union Paper Brea (O/U), Liohori (Star-K), Loreto (O/U), Maestro Bak-O-Matic, Up & Up (O/U), Wegman’s (O/U), Wilton Oleario (Star-K), Mario (O/U), Meijer (O/U), Molivo (Star-K), Note: Containing Quilon requires Hechsher (O/U), Natural Earth Products (Star-K), Oleo Jabalon year-round. Silicon-based is Kosher during the year. (Star-K), Oleostepa (Star-K), Piggly Wiggly (O/U), Pirolio (Star-K), Pompeian (Star-K), Santa Stefano Paper (Towel) - All (frst 3 sheets and the last sheet (Star-K), Spectrum Organics (Star-K), Star (O/U), on the roll may contain kithiyos glue, and should Toscani (Star-K), Via Italia (O/U), Villa Blance (O/U), not be used with hot foods. If using half sheets, this 20 rule also applies to the frst 4 and the last Clover Valley (O/U), Del Monte, Deluxe Raisins, 2 sheets) Dole Seedless (Star-K), Essential Everyday (Star-K), Paper (Wax) - Ahold (O/U), American Choice, Best Goodfelds (O/U), Great Value (Star-K), HEB (O/U), Choice (O/U), Big Y (O/U), Cut Rite (O/U), Domestix Hannaford (O/U), Harris Teeter (O/U), Krasdale (O/U), Essential Everyday (O/U), Everyday Chef (O/U), Kroger Raisins (O/U), Mariani (O/U), Market (O/U), Giant Eagle (O/U), Harris Teeter (O/U), HEB Basket (O/U), Market Pantry (Star-K), Newman’s Own (O/U), Homelife (O/U), Iga, Laura Lynn (O/U), Life Organic (O/U), Price Chopper (O/U), Publix (O/U), Brand (O/U), Marcal Kitchen Charm, Market Wax Rite Aid Pantry (O/U), Shoprite (Star-K), Southern Dry Wax Interfold Paper (O/U), Master Wrap (O/U), Grove (O/U), Sun Maid, Sun Valley (Star-K), Trader Meijer (O/U), Member’s Selection Non-Stick (O/U), Joe’s (O/U), Wegmans (Star-K), Weis (O/U), Wild Nature Value (Star K), Nice! (O/U), Our Family (O/U), Harvest (O/U) Packaging Dynamics Interfold Paper (O/U), Publix Rice - For those Sephardim who use rice on Pesach (O/U), Remarkable, Reynolds (O/U), Reynolds as well as those who are infrm or infants, it is Wax Paper Bags (O/U), Selection (O/U), Shurfne acceptable only without additives (this includes Microwaveable Wax Paper (O/U), Simply Done (O/U), vitamins) i.e. Aftab, Emperor, Mahatma, Kusha, Shoprite (O/U), , Signature Select (O/U), Simply Done Nasim, Pari, Riviana, Royal, Shahrzad, Success (O/U), Springfeld (O/U), Stop & Shop (Star K), Tops Rice Milk - (some rice milk may contain an enzyme (O/U), Our Family (O/U), Waxfex (Star K), Waxtex that is derived from barley, therefore only the (O/U), Wegman’s (Star K), Weis (O/U), Western Family following brands have been approved by the O/U (O/U), White Rose (O/U), Winco (O/U) as original rice milk, with no chametz. THEY ARE Pediatric Supplements - D-VI-Sol, Enfamil 5% KITNIYOS) Rice Dream Enriched (Unsweetened Glucose Water, Poly-Vi-Sol Drops, Tri-Vi-Sol Drops, Original), Harris Teeter, RiceSense Enriched, Full Pedialyte (all favors), Pediasure Peptide, Pediasure Circle, Hy-Vee, Meijer, Nature’s Place, Shop Rite, Shakes Market Basket Enriched, Price Chopper Enriched, Pepper - Durkee, It’s Delish, Morton’s Black Pepper, Wild Harvest Enriched Spice Island Rubber Gloves - Any uncoated (i.e. Playtex, Rubber Personal Care Product - The following Shaklee Maid) products: Avocado Cream Moisturizer, Deodorant Salt - (Coarse Kosher Salt) - All Cream, Skin Salt (Himalayan Pink Salt) - Artisan Salt Co. Pet Food - see above (O/U), Badia (O/U), Kirkland Signature (O/U), Olde Plastic Containers - All Thompson (O/U), Roland (O/U), SaltWorks (O/U), Plastic Plates - All Wegmans (O/U) Prenatal Vitamins - Maxi Health Small Prenatal Salt (Peruvian Pink Salt) - Artisan Salt Co. (O/U), Caps (only with Chametz free sticker) Korean Bamboo (O/K), SaltWorks (O/U), Young-Jin Green Food Sea (Roasted, Refned, Premium & Alkali) Powder Blush - All Salt, Table - (Processed or Sea) Morton’s plain, Plastic Bag & Wrap -All coarse, popcorn salt, special cooking salt, canning Polish - All and pickling salt, extra fne four salt, Red Cross, Poultry - Some Poultry brands that are Kosher for Sterling, Pesach (without special Pesach certifcation) are: NOTE: Sea Salt Is NOT Mevushal and can be an issue Aaron’s Best Raw Chicken & Turkey (excluding on Shabbos. ground) (O/U), Alle excluding ground (O/U), NOTE on Salt: Always check to make sure that there Birdsboro Poultry including ground (O/U), David is no dextrose, iodine or polysorbate listed in the Elliot (O/U), Isaac’s Pride (including ground) (Star-K), ingredients. Kedas including ground (O/U) Kee-Tov excluding Sandwich Bag - Any paper or plastic ground (O/U), Kiryas Joel Raw Chickens & Turkey including ground (O/U), Kol Foods (Star-K), Koshers Sanitizer - All Best including ground (O/U), Marvid excluding Scouring Pad & Powders - All ground (O/U), Pelleh including ground (O/U), Seltzer (Unfavored) - All Quality Kosher (Star-K), Rachel’s Organic (including Shampoo - All ground) (Star-K), Romanian (including ground, Shaving Cream & Gel - All Shor Habor excluding ground (O/U), Wise Organic Shaving Lotion - All Pastures (Star-K) Shelf Paper - All uncoated Raisins (check to make sure that “oil” doesn’t appear in the ingredient panel) - American Raisin Packers, Shoe Polish - All Berkley & Jensen (O/U), CVS (O/U), California Silver Polish - All Kosher Brands. Some Examples Fruit (Star-K), California Raisins, Champion (O/U), are: Goddard’s (Star-K), Hagerty (Star-K), Weiman 21 (Star-K), Wright’s (Star-K) (O/U), IGA (O/U), Key Foods (Star-K), Skin Care - any without grain additives Kroger, Law’s (O/U), Lipton (O/U), Market Soap (Hand) - All Basket (O/U), Nestea, Neuman’s Own Organics Green & Black Tea Bags (O/U), Newman’s Own Family Soy Milk - (Kitniyos - but not Chometz – for those for Size (O/U), Pascal (O/U), Pocahontas, Redco, Red & whom it is necessary to consume soy milk (Infants & White (O/U), Restaurant’s Pride Preferred (O/U), Rite Ill). These items should be purchased before Pesach, Aid Black Tea Bags (O/U), Safeway (Star-K), Salada, so that any traces of Chometz involving equipment Shurfne (Topco) Black, Green and Family Size (O/U), would be batul and utensils used for these items Signature Select (O/U), Stop & Shop (Star-K), Stater should be washed in a separate area) 365 Everyday Bros Black & Green Tea Bags (O/U), Superior, Swee- Value, Best Choice Clearly Organic, Fit & Active Touch-Nee (O/U), Tetley (Star-K), The Republic of (regular and organic), Fresh & Easy Soysense, Giant, Tea, Rite Aid Green Way, Harris Teeter Naturals Organic, Harvest Farms, Hy-Vee, Market Basket Unsweetened, Meijer, NOTE on Teabags: Regular tea bags that are Natural Directions Organic, Nature’s Place, Nature’s unfavored and not decafeinated and have no fllers Promise Organic, O Organics, Shop Rite Organic, such as chicory may be used for Pesach without Shop Rite, Silk, Smart Menu Organic, Soy Dream, special certifcation. Stop & Shop, Western Family Aseptic, Winn-Dixie Some plain tea bags contain grape seed extract as Organic. listed in the ingredients and are not Kosher. Spices - Whole, not ground are fne for Pesach use. Tea Bags (Decaf) - Lipton Unfavored (O/U), Swee- (i.e. cinnamon sticks, whole peppers etc.) Touch-Nee 97% Decaf Sponge - All without soap Tissue (Bathroom & Facial) - All Steel Wool - any without soap Toothbrush - All Sterno - All Tooth Pain - Anbesol, Orajel Straws - All plastic Toothpaste - Aim, Arm & Hammer, Colgate, Close Styrofoam Products - All up, Mentadent, Orajel, Pepsodent, Ultrabrite Sugar - (Brown) Best Yet (O/U), Better Value (O/U), Toothpicks - All unfavored Bi-Lo (O/U), C & H Gold Brown (Star-K), C & H Dark Vegetable (Fresh) - alfalfa sprouts, artichoke, Brown (Star-K), Dixie Crystals (O/U), Food Club (O/U), asparagus, avocado, beets, bell pepper, broccoli, Holly (O/U), Hy-Top (O/U), Imperial (O/U), Kroger cabbage (red or green), carrot, caulifower, celeriac (O/U), Parade (O/U), Savannah Gold (O/U), Shoprite (celery root), celery, chicory, chives, collard, (O/U), Shurfne (O/U), Southern Home (O/U), West cucumber, dandelion greens, dill, eggplant, Creek (O/U), Winn-Dixie (O/U). endive, escarole, garlic (there are varying customs Sugar - (White) any granulated pure cane or regarding the use of garlic on Pesach), green beet sugar without dextrose such as C & H, Vons/ onion, horseradish (raw), kohlrabi, leek, lettuce (all Pavilions, Albertsons, Kroger (with O/U symbol types), mint leaves, mushroom, okra, onion, potato, only), Smart & Final, Spreckles, Sysco. It must be parsley, parsley root, pumpkin, radishes (all types), listed as pure cane or beet sugar on the label. rhubarb, rutabaga, scallions, spinach, tomatillo, tomatoes, turnip, watercress, whole pepper, yams, Sugar - (Raw, Turbinado) C&H Hawaiian raw cane and zucchini. sugar Vegetables/Carrots Fresh Peeled - A&J Produce Palm Sugar - Sweet Tree Coconut Palm sugar (O/U), Albertson’s Baby Peeled Carrots (O/U), Suntan Lotion & Medication - All America’s Gold (O/U), Bugs Bunny’s Baby Carrots Supplement - Ensure Without Fiber (Note: it (O/U), Bunny Luv (O/U), Cal Organic Farms (O/U), contains Kitniyos - check with your Rav when Classic (O/U), Cross Valley Farms (O/U), Dewy needed) Fresh (O/U), Full Circle (O/U), Green Wise Baby Sushi Nori Sheets - Sweet City (Star-K) Cut Carrots (O/U), Grimmway Farms Crinkle Cut Sweetener - Syncal Saccharin Carrots (O/U), HEB Organics (O/U), Lancaster Foods (Star-K), Marketside Organic (O/U), Nature’s Finest Tablecloths (plastic/paper) - All (non powder) (O/U),Open Acres (O/U), Porters Peeled Mini Carrots Talcum Powder - All (100% talc) (O/U), Premier (O/U), President’s Choice (O/U), Tea (Instant) - Nestea Regular, Unfavored 100% Safeway (O/U), Salad Time (O/U), Schnuks Peeled Pure Tea Carrots & Carrot Chips (O/U), Shaw’s (O/U), ShopRite Teabags (Regular-Unfavored) - All (unfavored, not Baby Carrots (O/U), Shurfresh (O/U), Signature Farms decaf) Some examples are: Albertson’s, Ambiance Shredded Carrots (O/U), SnoBoy Peeled Carrots (O/U), America’s Choice (O/U), Bromley Estate, (O/U), Wegmans Baby Cut Carrots (O/U), Weis Baby Chock Full O’ Nuts, Family Dollar (O/U), Giant (O/U), Carrots (O/U) Hy-Top (O/U), Hy Vee Black - 24,48 and 100 count Vegetables/Other Fresh Peeled - Healthier Way 22 (Star-K), Lancaster Foods - Acorn, Butternut KP), Streits (Kof-KP), Unger’s (Star-KP) & Yellow Squash, Eggplant, Potatoes, Yams, Aspirin - Adwe non - Aspirin pain relief (regular and Zucchini - (Star-K), Little Salad Bar (Star-K), Nature’s extra strength) (O/U), Maxi-Health (O/UP) Promise (Organic Butternut & Squash Medley) Baby Food - Festive (O/UP), First Choice (Star-KP – (Star-K), West Creek (Star-K) Apple Sauce, Carrots, Sweet Potatoes), Gefen (O/UP), Vegetables (frozen) - Healthier Way Noodle Glick’s (KAJ), Haddar (KAJ), Healthy Times (O/UP), Veggies (Star-K), Wegman’s Noodle Veggies (Star-K) President’s Choice (Loblaw’s Brand - O/UP only), Tuv Vegetable Salad Bags - All fresh packaged salads Taam (O/KP) certifed by Star-K are Kosher for Passover only when Bagels (Plain & Onion Non-Gebrokts) - Noam bearing the Star-KP symbol. Gourmet (Star-KP) Vegetable Wash - Sereli Bags - Bodek Garnet Herb Bags (O/UP) Vinegar (Balsamic, Red & White Wine) - Acetum Bakery Goods/Bagels/Pizza – 21st Century (Star- Balsamic Vinegar (Star-K), De La Rosa (Star-K), KP), Bobba’s Taigelach (Star-KP), Chantilly’s (O/KP), Roland Balsamic Vinegar (Star-K) Goodman’s (O/UP), Gruenebaum (KAJ), Hirsch Water (Unfavored) - All (fresh, disposable bottle, Bros (O/KP), Horowitz-Margareten (O/UP), Jennie’s spring or distilled, without Citrate or zinc lactate) Macaroons (Kof-KP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Mufns N’ Water Filters - All More (O/KP), Oberlander (Rabbi Babad), Rebecca & Rose Gluten Free Donuts & Brownie Crunch (O/KP), ITEMS THAT HAVE RELIABLE Schick’s (KAJ), Spilke’s (Kof-KP) PESACH CERTIFICATION Baking Powder - Gefen (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ) Baking Soda - Gefen (O/UP) (FOR 5780 -2020) Bamboo Shoots - California Delight (Star-K) Agave Nectar Sweetener – Associated Wholesale Bars - Shefa Good To Go Bars Grocers (AW) (O/KP), Food Emporium (O/KP), Beer/Cider - Exodus Hopped Cider (apple cider Roundy’s Simply Roundy’s Organic Agave Nectar made with hops) (Star-K) (O/KP), Sophia Foods (O/KP), Western Family Foods Blintzes - Bernies Foods (O/UP), Frankel’s (O/UP), (O/KP) Spring Valley (O/U P-D) Passover Pre-Fried Cheese Airline Meals - Lou G. Siegel (O/UP - with Kosher for Blintz Meal, Cholov Yisroel, non Gebrokts Passover seal only), Meal Mart (O/UP), Wilton (O/UP) Borscht - Gefen (O/UP), Gold’s (O/UP), Manischewitz [ALERT: Airlines often mistakenly serve meals on (O/UP), Mother’s (O/UP) Rokeach (O/UP), Unger’s Pesach which are not Kosher for Pesach. Always be (Star-KP) careful to check your meal.] Brandy - De La Rosa Vineyards (Star-KP) Alcoholic Beverages (see also “Liquerus”) - Alfasi Mistico (O/KP), Courvoisier SAS Cognac (O/KP), De Bread Sticks - LeTova (O/UP) La Rosa Vineyards (Star-SP), Le Cognac de Napoleon Butter - Breakstone’s (O/UP), Shop-Rite (O/UP), (O/KP), Millesimato Kosher Val D’Oca (Star-SP), Notte Stop & Shop (O/UP), Tnuva (O/UP) Italiana (Star-SP), Royal Wine Corp (O/KP) Cake - Carousel Cheesecake, Gefen (O/UP), Almond Flour/Meal - Costco/Kirkland (KORC - Goodman’s (O/UP), Hagadda - Brownies, Chocolate Passover), Goldbaums (/UP)hj Roll, Apricot Nut Roll, Jelly Roll, Marble, Nut, Seven Almond Milk - Liebers (Star-KP) Layer Cake, Cupkake (O/KP), Lily’s Bakeshop (O/UP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Messing (Kof KP), Mufns N’ Allergy/Cold Medication - Adwe (O/UP), Maxi- More (O/KP), Oberlanders (Kof-KP), Osem (O/UP), Health (O/UP) Rokeach (O/UP), Schick’s (O/UP), Shabtai Gourmet Antacid - Adwe Heartburn Relief (plain and with (O/KP), Smilowitz, G&I New York Style Cheesecake calcium) (KAJ), Ko-Lanta Antacid, Anti Gas (check (O/UP - Cholov Yisroel) Koshervitamins.com), Maxi-Health (O/UP) Cake Mix - Gefen (O/UP), Goodman’s (O/UP), Liebers Appetizers - Tuv Taam (O/KP) (R’ Weissmandl), Manischewitz (O/UP), Natural Earth Apple Butter - Eden Organic (O/KP), Season (O/UP) (Star-KP) Savion (O/UP), Streit’s (Kof KP) Apple Juice/Cider - Empire (O/KP), Haddar (KAJ), Candy - 21st Century (Star-KP), Alprose Chocolates Kedem (O/KP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Season (O/KP), (O/UP), Barricini (O/UP), Bartons (NOTE: Barton’s Streits (Kof-KP), Ungar’s (Star-KP) produces an “O/U_P” Chocolate covered Matza, Applesauce - Eden Organic (O/KP), Festive which is NOT Matza Ashira), (O/UP), Bloomy’s (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Glick’s (KAJ), Kedem (O/UP), Blum’s (O/UP), Dream Confections (Kof-KP), (O/UP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Rokeach (O/UP), Rue Elegante & Dodilly, Elite (only with O/UP or Badatz), Lafayette, Season (O/UP), Sneider’s Happy Fruit Empress Chocolate (O/UP), G.M.V. Chocolates (Star-KP), Sneider’s Shlook Squeezable Fruit (Star- (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Golden Fluf (O/UP), Hadar (O/UP), Holiday (Kof-KP), Illinois Nut & Candy (cRc), 23 It’s Delish (O/KP), Klein’s (O/KP), Koppers (O/KP), Cocoa Butter - Cocoa Butter must bear Krums (O/UP), Manhattan Chocolates (O/K, Rabbi reliable Passover certifcation. Weissmandl), Manischewitz (O/UP), Oh! Nuts Coconut Oil - Arista (O/KP), Carrington Farms (Star- (O/KP), Oneg (KAJ), Openheimer Jerusalem Sweets KP), Clearly Organic (Star-KP), Dr. Bronner’s (O/KP), (O/KP), Paskesz, Progress (O/UP), Pizzaz Fruit Slices Natural Earth Products (Star-KP), Nature’s Promise (O/UP), Rokeach (O/UP), Savion (O/UP), Season (Star-KP)Peter Paul Philippine Corp. (O/KP), Shoprite (O/UP), Shufra (O/KP), Smunchies Cotton Candy (Star-KP), Wegmans Organic (Star-KP) (O/UP), Streits (Kof-K), The Candy Store (Star-KP), Coconut Chips - Arya (Star-KP) Tzali’s (O/UP) Coconut Fat - Axelum (O/KP), Cocogold (O/KP) Capers - Blanchard & Blanchard (Star-KP), DFS Foods Coconut Roll - Hadley Date Gardens (O/KP) (Star-KP) Coconut Water - Vitacoco (Star-KP - lot Cereal - Manischewitz (O/UP), Mothers (O/UP), #s7016SM6&7016SM1B) Kedem (O/UP) Rokeach, (O/UP), T. Abrahams (O/UP), Kojel (O/UP), Streit’s (Kof-K), Oberlander’s (Kof-KP), Cofee (Instant - Cafeinated) – 24 Karat (O/KP), Savion (O/UP) Canadian Eight O’Clock Instant Cofee (O/KP), Corim (Star-KP), Cumberland Island Traditional Charoset - Streit’s (Kof K) Roast Ground (O/KP), Elite Platinum (O/UP), Festive, Cheese (also see Cream Cheese) – Ahava, Barkanit Gevalia (Star-KP and O/KP), Gefen (O/UP), Gillies Goat & Sheep Cheese (O/UPd), Cabot (O/UPd), (Star-KP), Haddar (KAJ P), Hag (O/KP), King David Entremont Ementale Spreadable Cheese (from Cofee Roasters (KSAP), Kobricks (Star-KP), La France – Rabbi Alloum), Gideon, Golan (Star-KPd), Joloa Gourmet Liquid Cofee (Star-KP), Maxim HSDF (Star-KPd), Haolam (KAJP), HSDF (only with (O/KP), Maxwell House (O/KP), Maxwell House Star-KP), Harmony Specialty (Star Dp, non-Cholov (Canadian Instant Half Caf) (O/KP), Meijer (O/KP), Yisroel), J & J (KAJPd), Ko-Sure (Star-KP), La Chevre Meridian (O/UP), Mondelez International European (Cholov Yisroel – O/K for Passover), Les Petites Cofeehouse Collection - Unfavored (O/KP), Paul Fermieres (Cholov Stam – O/KP), Lucerne Cottage Delima (O/KP), Savarin (O/UP), Seattle’s Best (O/UP), Cheese & Sour Cream (Kof KPd), Mehadrin (Volve Starbucks Cofee Regular & Brazil (O/UP), Starbucks Rav), Millers (O/UP), Migdal (KAJ p), Morning Select, Via Instant Medium Roast Cofee - Colombia (O/U), Monsey Cheeses (O/KPd), Natural & Kosher (Cholov Starbucks Pike Place Roast Cofee (O/UP), Superior Yisroel O/Kd), Pastures of Eden Jerusalem Cheese Cofee (regular and decaf unfavored – certifed (O/KPd– Chosom Sofer), Slim-U, Susan Gourmet under cRc for Pesach), The Gourmet Bean (O/KP), (Star-KP), Taam Tov (O/UPd), Tuv Taam Hungarian Yuban (O/KP), Vascafe Expresso (Rabbi Frankel), cheese (O/KPd), Tuv Taam (O/KPd), Yotvata White Hen (O/KP) Mozzarella, provlone and pecorino (O/UP) Cofee (Instant - Decaf) - 24 Karat (O/KP), Brooklyn Cheesecake - Hagadda (O/KP) Cofee House (O/UP), Coram (Star-KP), Elite (O/KP), Cheese Omelet Meal - Spring Valley (Cholov Yisroel, Festive, Gefen (O/UP), Gevalia (O/KP), Gillies (Star- Non-Gebrokts) - (Symbol required. Kosher for KP), Haddar, Hag (O/KP), Kobricks (Star-KP), Jacobs Pesach only when bearing special certifcation for Decaf Green Cofee (O/KP), Kenco Decaf Green Pesach) Cofee (O/KP), Kronung Green Cofee (O/KP), Mastro Chia Seeds - Goldbaum (O/UP), La Bonne (O/U) Decaf Green Cofee (O/KP), Maxwell House Blend & Chicken Coating - Streits Bag N Bake (Kof-KP) Filter Pack (O/KP only), Meijer (O/KP), Meisterrostung Children’s Chewable Fever & Pain Reliever - Adwe Green (O/KP), Mild’or (O/KP), Moccapress (O/UP), (O/UP) Mondelez International European Cofeehouse Collection and regular decaf - unfavored (O/KP), Chocolate Chips - Blooms, Lieber’s (Weissmandel) Nescafe Taster’s Choice Decaf Instant (Chasam Chocolate (Baking Bars) - Haddar (KAJ), Sofer), Night & Day Green (O/K), Onko Green (O/KP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Paskesz (O/KP - Rabbi Peet’s (KSAP), Parker House/Pinnacle (O/UP), Sanka Westheim) (O/KP), The Gourmet Bean (O/KP), Yuban (O/KP), Chocolate Syrup - Fox U-Bet (O/UP), Manischewitz White Hen (O/KP) (O/UP), Unger’s (Star-KP) Cofee Beverages - Chilla Frappe & Latte Mixes (5 Cigars - Senor Solomon – (KSAp) favors) (Chasam Sofer) Cleansers - America’s Choice (O/UP), Brite Water Cofee (Liquid Concentrate) - Maxwell House (O/KP) (O/UP), Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), Cofee Creamer - Gefen (O/UP), Hadar (O/UP), Procter & Gamble (O/UP) Rokeach (O/UP), Weiman Kineret (O/UP), Mishpacha (O/UP), Unger’s (Star-KP) Wax Away (O/UP) Cofee Syrup - Gefen (O/UP), Fox (O/UP), Hadar Cocoa - Gefen (O/UP), Gevalia (O/KP), Haddar (O/UP) (KAJ), Lieber’s (O/KP), Savion (O/UP), Sudan, Victor’s Cofee Whitener - Unger’s (Star-KP) (O/UP), V.I.P. (O/UP) 24 Cold Cuts - Empire (O/UP), Meal Mart Fish (regular & sugar-free – O/UP), Banner (O/UP), (O/UP) Benz’s (Star-KP), California Delight Sardines & Cookies - B.P. Gourmet (Kof-KP), Bartenura (O/UP), Tuna (Star-KP ), Dagim (O/UP), Elf Herring (O/UP), Bloomy’s (O/UP), Festive (O/UP), Frookies, Glick’s Empire O/UP), Freshwater (raw un-coated fsh only Macaroons (O/UP), Goodmans (O/UP), Gruenbaum’s - no coated or fsh blends), Gefen Tuna & Salmon (KAJ p), Hagadda - Assorted, Baby Fingers, Lace, (O/UP), Haddar Tuna (KAJ), Herring Brook (Star-KP), Sandwich, Leaf, Rainbow, Sugar Free (O/KP), Jennie’s Kedem (O/UP), King of the Sea (cRc P), Kirkland Bakery Treats (Kof-KP), Krum’s (O/UP), Lieber’s Signature Frozen Atlantic & Wild Salmon: following Macaroons (O/UP), Manischewitz Macaroons (O/UP), rinsing with water O/UP, Lasco (O/UP), Lieber’s Messing (Kof-KP), Mother’s (O/UP), My Bubby’s (Kof (Weissmandl), Manischewitz (O/UP), Meal Mart KP), Ness (O/UP), Oberlander’s (Kof KP), Rokeach (O/UP), Mishpacha Canned Tuna (O/UP), Ocean (O/UP), Savion Lowfat Cookies (O/UP), Season Gourmet (O/UP), Rokeach (with O/UP), Season (O/UP), Shabtai Gourmet (O/KP), Y&S Food (O/KP) (O/UP), Mrs. Adler’s (O/UP), Mother’s (O/UP), Cooking Bags - Cookit Cooking Bags (O/UP) Nathan’s (O/UP), Philly Foods (Star-KP), Ralph’s Markets (selected Ralph’s markets carry fresh fsh Cooking Spray - Arista Avocado and Grapeseed with RCC label/blue packaging in California), Royale (Star-KP), DeLaRosa Avocado and Grapeseed (Star- (O/UP), Salmolux Gourmet (Kof KP), Season Salmon, KP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Mother’s (O/UP), Season Sardines & Tuna (O/UP), Shoprite Tuna in Water (O/UP) (O/UP), Tuna Delight (with Star-KP - certifcation Cosmetics – Adwe Cosmetics (O/UP), Shain Dee must say “may be used for Passover”), Tuv Taam Cosmetics (Star-KP) (O/KP), Ungar’s (O/UP), Vita (O/UP), Ungar’s Geflte Cough Syrup - Adwe Tussin Cough Syrup (and DM) Fish (O/UP) (O/U) Fish (Frozen/Raw) – Ben Z’s (Star-KP), Noam Cottage Cheese - Friendship (O/UP), Key Food Gourmet Frozen Geflte Fish (O/UP), Lucerne (Safeway) O/UP), Shop-Rite (O/UP) Note: All frozen raw fsh products should have Crackers – Gefen Kartofele Crackers (O/UP), Paskesz reliable certifcation for Pesach use. If Pesach (Cracker Flats & Crispits) approved frozen fsh is not available, or the Cream - Land-O-Lakes (O/UP), Sealtest (O/UP) frozen fsh was already purchased without Pesach Cream Cheese - Ahold (O/UP), Breakstone’s (O/UP), certifcation, then the fsh should be washed (best Fairway (O/UP), J&J (Arugas Habosem), Philadelphia before Pesach). This washing should not be done Cream Cheese (with O/KP only), Mehadrin (O/UP), over a Kosher-for-Pesach sink as the fsh may be Ralph’s (O/UP), Shop-Rite (O/UP), Vons O/UP) coated with a Kitniyos glaze. Crumbs - Pereg (O/UP) Gourmet’s Flavored Matzo Fish (Lox) - Benz’s Smoked Nova Vita (O/UP), Crumbs, Hagadda (O/KP), Natural Earth (Star-KP) Diamond (O/UP), Rite Foods (O/UP), Salmon Salami Pareve Cold Cuts (O/UP), Springfeld (O/UP), Three Cupcake Holders - Paper - If You Care (Star-KP) Star (O/UP) Cups - Dixie (O/UP), James River (O/UP) Fish (Smoked) - Acme (Kof-KP), American Smoked Deodorant - Dr. Fischer Deodorant Spray & Gel Fish (Kof-KP), Gefen Smoked Salmon (O/UP), (Rabbi Shlomo Korach) Kirkland Smoked Salmon (O/UP), Salmolux - Chubs, Dips/ Sauces - Casablanca Foods (Kof-K), Kitni Rainbow Trout, Salmon, Salmon Nova, White Fish (O/UP), Sabra (O/KP), Unger’s (Star-KP) (Kof-KP) Dish Detergents - Adwe (KAJ), Festive, Gefen Flour: Rorie’s Grain Free Flour Blend (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), Rokeach (O/UP), Season Food Coloring - Haddar (KAJ) (O/UP) French Fries - Gefen (O/UP) Dishwasher Detergent - Haddar (KAJ P), Rokeach Frozen Meals & Side Dishes - Kineret Meals (O/UP), Season (O/UP) (Macaroni & Cheese) (O/U - Cholov Yisroel), Kineret Dressing (Salad) - Blanchard & Blanchard (O/UP), Vegetable & Pizza Poppers (O/U, Chug Chasam Gourmet By Dina (Star-KP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Sofer) Mother’s (O/UP), Savion, Streits (Kof-KP), Unger’s Fruits and Vegetables (Canned and Packaged) (Star-KP) - California Delight (Star-K - must say Kosher for Egg Substitute - Healthy Morn (O/UP), Kineret Passover - tropical fruit cocktail, mandarin oranges), (O/UP) Gefen (O/UP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Season (O/UP), Egg Whites - Laura Lynn (O/UP), Papetti Food - Simcha Cranberry Sauce (CCRp), Ungar’s Sour Pitted (O/UP) Cherries (O/UP) Farfel - Manischewits whole wheat Matzoh farfel Fruit, Fresh Pre-Cut - Del Monte (Star-KP), (O/UP) Foodhold (Star-KP), Garden Cut (Star-KP), Fish (Prepared/Canned/Jar and Raw) - A&B Geflte Indianapolis Fruit Co. (Star-KP), Lancaster Foods 25 (Star-KP), Lucinda’s (Star-KP), Nature’s Promise (Star- (O/U) Liebers Natural Creamy Almond & KP), Sheetz M.T. Go (Star-KP), The Farmer’s Market Cashew Nut Butter (Rabbi Weissmandl), (Star-KP), Wegmans (Star-KP) Liebers Organic Sugar (Rabbi Weissmandl), Liebers Fruits (Canned/Jarred) - California Delight (Star-KP), White Almond Flour (Rabbi Weissmandl), Matt’s Haddar (KAJ), Lieber’s (Weissmandel p), Mishpacha Munchies Premium Fruit Snack Mango (Heart K), (O/UP), Season, Unger’s (Star-KP) Perez White Quinoa (O/UP), Shufra Premium Finest Fruits (Dried) - 21st Century (Star-K “P” required), Cocoa (O/UP), Wellbee’s Super Fine Almond Flour Bonner Organic Raisins (O/UP), Calavo Pitted (O/U) Dates, California Hi-Lites (O/UP), California Prune Honey (All Honey requires special Pesach Co. (O/KP), California Prune Packing Co. (O/UP), certifcation) – Ba-Tampte (O/UP), Dutch Gold Cinderella Raisins, Del Monte Slice, Dole Pitted (O/UP), Ein Harod Meuchad Natural Honey (Chosom Dates, Prunes and Natural Raisins, Fairway Dried Sofer p), Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Gold’s (O/UP), Papaya (O/KP), Festive (O/UP), Fresh Direct (O/KP), Haddar (KAJ), Lieber’s (Weissmandl), Mclure’s O/UP), Gefen Fruit Leather (O/UP), Glick’s Raisins (KJP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Meal Mart (O/UP), Nature’s Great Lakes Turkish Apricots and Figs (Star-KP), Healthy Gourmet Avocado & Buckwheat Honey Hadley’s Dates & Date Coconut Rolls (O/K), Homa (O/KP), Rokeach (O/UP), Season (O/UP), Silver (Star-KP), It’s Delish (Heart K), Klein’s (O/KP), Landau Spring (O/UP), The Fresh Market (O/UP), Unger’s All Natural Apple Crisps Cinnamon (O/UP), Marriani (Star-KP), Western Commerce (O/KP) (O/UP only), Nature’s Original (Star-KP), Sunglow Horseradish - BenZ’s (Star-KP), Golden Taste (O/KP), Pitted Dates, Sun World Pitted Dates (O/UP – whole Lin’s Farm Horseradish, Noam Gourmet (Star-KP), only), Trader Joe’s (Star-KP), Season with (O/UP), Poland Best (O/KP), Silver Spring (O/KP), Unger’s Setton International Foods (O/KP). Note: Dried Figs (Star-KP) certifed Triangle KP are acceptable. Hot Chocolate Mix - Haddar (KAJ -Cholov Yisroel), Fruits (Frozen) - Bodek (O/UP), Fairmont Frozen Ko-Sure (CholovYisroel -Star-KP), Kojel (O/UP) (Star-KP), Granadaisa (O/UP), Rainbow Farms (O/KP) Hot Sauce - Blanchard (O/KP) Geflte Fish - Benny’s (O/KP), Glick’s (KAJ), Haddar Ice Cream - Elegante & Dodilly, Gilda (Cholov (KAJ), Manischewitz Premium Gold Fish Log & Sliced Yisroel), Kleins (Deberitzen Rav), Manischewitz Frozen Geflte Fish (O/UP), Raskin (O/KP), Seasons (O/UP), Passover Delight (O/UP), Pride of the Farm Sweet Geflte Fish (O/KP) (Star-KP – Cholov Yisroel) Gelatin - Sweet City New York (Badatz Machazekai Ices - Bloom (under the supervision of Rav Landau), Hadaas) Brother’s International Desserts (Kof-KP), Cyrk Grape Juice - After The Fall (O/UP), Carmel Grape Gourmet (O/UP), Klein (Deberciner Rav), Pascals Juice (O/UP), De La Rosa (Star-KP), Gefen (O/UP), (KSAp), Pride of the Farm (Star-KP) Heineke’s Sparkling Grape Juice (O/UP), Kedem - Jams & Jellies Preserves - 778 (O/UP), Atlas Mevushal (O/UP), Kedem -non-Mevushal 1.5 Liter Preserves Co. (O/KP), Carmel (O/UP), Elyon (KCL), Glass bottle, labeled Non-Mevushal (O/UP), Kedem Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ- P), Fresh Pressed without sulftes (O/UP), Kedem Kedem (O/UP), Kojel (O/UP), Ko-Sure, Manischewitz Sangria & Sangria Sparkling (O/U), Kesser (O/KP), (O/UP), Osem (O/UP), Polaner (O/UP), Season (O/UP), Land of Vines Organic Grape Juice (O/KP), R. W. Streits (Kof-KP), Ko-Sure, Unger’s (Star-KP), Victor’s Knudson (O/UP), Rokeach (O/UP), Savion (O/UP), (O/UP) Season Grape Juice (O/UP), Tampri Grape Juice Jerky (Beef) - Exodus Foods - BBQ Jerky, Original (O/UP), Ti Rosh (O/UP), Welch’s/Manischewitz Grape and Spicy (Star-KP) Juice (O/UP) Juices (Fresh) – Apple & Eve (O/KP), Ceres Gravy - King Star (O/UP & Chug Chasam Sofer) (Star-KP), Eden (Star-KP), Festive (O/UP), Finast Gum - Blooms (O/UP), Elite (O/UP), Must Sugar Free (O/UP), Gefen Tomato Juice, Diet Raspberry, Gum (O/UP), Paskesz (O/UP) Kiwi Strawberry & Peach Iced Tea, Lemon, Kiwi Half & Half (dairy) - Cream O’land (O/UP), Ecomeal Strawberry & Raspberry Iced Tea, Lemon Juice, (O/U), James Farm (O/UP), Key Food (O/UP), Natural Grape Drink Brick Pack (O/UP), HKS Pomegranate By Nature (O/UP), O Organics (O/UP), Price Rite Juice (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), Heineke’s Sparkling (O/UP), Pride Of The Farm (Star-KP) Grape Juice (O/UP), Kedem Cranberry, Cranberry Health Food - Bakers Choice Dutch Cocoa (Beis Din Juice Cocktail, Cranberry Grape, Organic Grape Juice of New Square), Blanchard & Blanchard Premium & Pomegranate Juice – plain & Sparkling, Sparkling Sundried Tomato Halves (Star-KP), Dr. Fischer Alma Raspberry, Sangria Pure Juice (O/UP), Manischewitz Lip Care (Badatza2 Jerusalem) Hanamal Kosher Fish (O/UP), Morning Select (Star-K P), New Square Gelatin Powder (Rabbi Westheim), Health Garden Orange, Prigat, Season’s (Grapefruit, Apple, Organic Sugar Mehadrin and Real Birch Xylitol Pineapple, Prune, Orange - (O/UP), Simply Orange (Rabbi Padwa), Kirkland Pure Clover Honey (80 oz.) Juice High Pulp and Pulp Free (when bearing 26 the O/UP), Streit’s (Apple Grape Juice), Margarine - Mother’s (O/UP), Ralphs (O/UP) Torpedo Juice (under the supervision of Marinades - Savion (O/U) Rav Landau), Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Juice Marshmallows - Shufra, Golden Fluf (O/UP), Kojel Homestyle/Some Pulp All-Florida (O/KP), Unger’s - fsh gelatin (Star-KP), Tzali’s (O/UP), Manischewitz (Star-KP) (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), Savion (O/UP) Ketchup - Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Glick’s (KAJ), Matzah - 7 Mile Market - Hand Shmura Wheat, Gold’s (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), Osem (O/UP), Rokeach Hand Shmura Whole Wheat & Machine Shmura (O/UP), Savion Fireman’s Frenzy Spicy Ketchup Wheat (Star-KP), Aviv (O/UP), Belz, Carmel (O/UP), (O/UP), Season (O/UP), Streit’s (Kof KP), Unger’s Croyden House (O/UP), Galil (O/UP), Goodman’s (Star-KP) (O/UP), Haddar Shmurah (KAJ), Holy Land - regular Kichel - LeTova (O/UP) and Machine Shmurah Matzah (O/UP), Horowitz Kishke - BenZ’s (Star-KP), Romanian (O/UP), Unger’s Margareten (O/UP), Lakewood (Hand Shmura (Star-KP) Regular, Wheat and Whole Wheat, Gluten Free Kugels - Classic Cooking (Star-KP), Glatt Mart Oat Matzah and Organic Spelt - Star-K www. (Star-KP), Spring Valley (O/UP - Gebrokts - Symbol lakewoodmatzoh .com or call at (732) 364-8757), required. Kosher for Pesach only when bearing Manischewitz (O/UP), Manischewitz Mediterranean special Pesach certifcation. (regular matzah sprayed with oil and spices after Leben - Norman’s (O/UP) baking - NOT matzah ashira) (O/UP), Manischewitz Machine Shmura Matzah (O/UP), Matzot Chabura Lemon Juice - Season Co. (O/UP), Unger’s (Star-KP) Beit Shemesh (Hand Shmura Wheat, Whole Wheat Lime Juice - Season Co. (O/UP) and Machine Shmura Wheat - Star-KP), Mosmarks Lip Balm - Dr. Fischer Ultrasol (Rabbi Korach - Kosher (O/UP), Osem (O/UP), Promised Land Organic Matzo for Pesach), SuperLan Nature’s Natural Moisturizer (O/UP), Rakusen, Rishon (O/UP), Rokeach - regular for Chapped Lips (Rabbi Y. Gruber) and Machine Shmurah Matzah (O/UP), Rosinski - Liquid Sugar - Flosweet (O/UP), V.l.P. Masters (O/UP) SBIR Machine Matzah (Pain Azyme Wheat - Star-KP), Liquor/Liqueur - 3 Kilos Vodka (O/UP), Alfasi Mistico Matzot Solomon-Australia (O/UP), Streits (Kof-KP), (O/KP), Armon Brandy (O/UP), Askalon Arak & Vodka Tzelem Popeh, Yanovsky (Argentina), Yarden (O/UP), (O/KP), Binyamina (O/UP), Carmel (O/UP only), Yehuda (O/UP) Boukha Bokobsa Fig Alcohol (O/UP), Carmel Brandy Matzah (Oat) - (Star-KP - Gluten Free, Yoshon (O/UP) Cava White Tequila (O/UP), Courvoisier SAS Shmura Matzos) Kestenbaum Hand Oat Cogniac (O/KP) , De La Rosa Vineyards - Brandy & Shmurah Matzah (O/UP).52 Tzeilim Pupa Hand Grappa (O/UP) Distillery No. (O/UP), Distillerie Gin Oat Shmura Matzahs (with “P” designation (O/UP), Dupuy Cognac (O/UP), Givon Chocolate only). For more Information on Oat Matzah - Brandy and Vodka (O/UP), Gold Shot (O/UP), contact Mrs. Karen Beleck at (410) 358-9580 or Heavens (O/UP), Herzog Cognac (O/UP), Jelenik at [email protected]. or contact Lakewood (O/UP), Kedem Bentenura Cordials (O/UP), Kedem Matzoh at www.lakewoodmatzoh.com. Vermouth Vinprom-Troyan Brandy (Star-KP), Lavie Matzah Balls - Classic Cooking (Star-KP) (O/KP), Le Cognac De Napoleon (O/KP), Jelinek Matzah Meal - Em Hachita (O/KP), Goodman’s (O/UP Slivovitz Pear Brandy (O/UP), Metropolitan Martini only), Horowitz Margareten (O/UP), Manischewitz Co. (O/UP), Millesimato (Star-SP), No.209 Vodka & - Whole Wheat and plain (O/UP), Rosinski (Star-K), Gin (O/UP), Notte Italiana (Star-SP), Queen Esther Yanovsky HNOS (Buenos Aires, Argentina – (O/UP) (O/UP), Royal (O/KP), Sabra Liqueurs (O/UP),. Spirit of Matza Ashira - (Chocolate Covered or Sweetened Solomon (O/UP), Sukkah Hill Spirits (Star-KP), Yakev etc.) - (check with local Rabbi as to permissibility HaGalil (O/UP), Zachlawi Arak and Vodka (O/UP) on Pesach) Aviv (O/UP), Gefen Shmura (O/UP), Lotion - SuperLan Moisturizer Lotion, Adwe Skin Haddar (KAJ), Holiday Candy, Jerusalem Matzos Cream, Dr. Fischer Hand Cream (O/UP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Matzot Carmel (O/UP), Macaroons - Glick’s (O/UP), Haggada Almond Mosmarks (O/UP), Osem (O/UP), Rishon (O/UP), Macaroons (O/KP), Haddar (KAJ), Manischewitz Shibolim (O/UP), Yanovsky (O/UP), Yehuda (O/UP) (O/UP), Messing (Kof-KP) Matza (Spelt) - Lakewood www.lakewoodmatzoh. Mail-Order Meals/Gifts: Avi Glatt - Aviglatt. com, Manischewits (O/UP) com (718) 947-1000, Kosher Gift Box - www. Mayonnaise - Benz’s (Star-KP), Festive (O/UP), Gefen koshergiftbox.com (866) 925-7747 (O/UP), Glick’s (KAJ), Haddar (KAJ), Manischewitz Mandarin Oranges – California Delight (Star-KP), (O/UP), Mother’s (O/UP), Rokeach (O/UP), Season Haddar (KAJ) (O/UP), Streits (Kof-KP), Unger’s (Star-KP) Maple Syrup - Adirondack (Kof KP 518 853-4022), Meals (Prepackaged) - Gourmet Kosher (Kof-KP), Janeric Maple Syrup (M/K p), Rancho Cucamunga La Briute (Kof-K), Meal Mart - ground beef should (O/KP) not be used on Pesach unless it bears an O/UP 27 (O/UP), Spring Valley (O/UP) Beef Stew Lunch/ Oil - Bartenura Grapeseed Oil (O/UP), Dinner (non-Gebrokts), Sweet & Sour Meatballs (non Benzi’s (Star-KP), Delarosa Grapeseed Gebrokts), Passover Turkey Meatloaf Lunch/Dinner (Star-KP), Festive Cottonseed (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), (non-Gebrokts), Turkey Schnitzel Lunch/Dinner Haddar (KAJ), Hain Oils (Kof -Kp), Hunt-Wesson (non-Gebrokts), Passover Country Fried Chopped (O/KP), Joseph Adams Herbal & Flavored Oils (O/KP Steak(4.5 oz., Non Gebrokts) (symbol required. only), Liberty (O/UP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Mothers Kosher for Pesach only when bearing special Pesach Choice (O/UP), Nutola (O/UP), Streits (Kof-KP) Note: certifcation). Kashrus agencies in Israel follow the tradition not to Meat - Raw, unprocessed meat in the original certify Cottonseed Oil for Pesach. manufacturer’s packaging (NOT from a local Olive Oil - Al Ouedi (Star-KP), Asila (Star-KP), Baka butcher) is Kosher for Pesach use even without (Star-KP), Ciento Uno (Star-KP), C.H.O. (Star-KP), “P” designation. The exception to this is ground DeLaRosa (Star-KP), Dorato (Star-KP), Durra (Star- meat, veal, lamb etc., which require “P” (Passover) KP), Eliad de Tierra Santa (O/KP), Forrelli (Star-KP), designation on label, unless otherwise noted. Gold River (Star-KP), Graziano (Star-KP), Hasdrubal The following meats are only for Pesach use when (Star-KP), Kochav Habait (Star-KP), Oleiva (Star-KP), bearing a special Passover certifcation: 7 Mile Riviere D’or (Star-KP), Season (O/UP), Sunfresh (Star- Market in Baltimore (Star-KP), Gershoni (O/UP) KP), Tiba (Star-KP), Tomer (Star-KP), Zayit (Star-KP), Cooked 1st Cut Corn Beef, Meal Mart 1st Cut Cooked Zaytun (Star-KP), Corned Beef (O/UP), Glatt Mart Star-KP), Market Oil Sprays - Haddar (KAJ), Mother’s Olive Oil Spray Maven in Baltimore (Star-KP), Romanian Pepper (O/UP),Rokeach (O/UP), Season’s (O/UP) Meat (O/UP Glatt), Solomon’s Glatt Kosher Beef Olives - Gefen (O/UP), Gilboa (O/UP), Golden Fluf Cheek Meat (O/U Glatt) (KCL), Haddar (KAJ), Hidorim Olives (O/UP), Kvuzat Meat Deli - Aaron’s Best (O/UP), 999 (O/UP), Meal Yavne Olives (O/UP), Mishpacha (O/UP), Osem Mart (O/UP) (O/UP) Meat-Deli Store/Counter - 7 Mile Market (Star-KP), Orange/Tangerine Juice - Ahold (O/UP), Avenue Glatt Mart in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Star-KP), Market Maven A (O/UP), Best Yet (O/UP), Big Squeeze (O/UP), in Baltimore (Star-KP), Shlomo’s Meat Market in Bogopa (O/UP), Bravo (O/UP), Brookshire (O/UP), Baltimore (Star-KP), Wasserman & Lemberger (Star- Cherry Valley (O/UP), Citrus World Tangerine Juice KP) (O/UP), Clover Farms (O/UP), Compare Foods (O/UP), Medicines Adwe with Pesach Certifcation Cumberland (O/UP), Dairy Fresh (O/UP), Dieberg’s Milk (Dry) - Ko-Sure Powder (Star-KP - Cholov (O/UP), Essential Everyday (O/UP), Farm Fresh Yisroel), Dairymen (O/UP), Parmalat (Kof-KP) (O/UP), Florida’s Natural (O/UP), Food Town (O/UP), Giant Eagle (O/UP), Giant Value (O/UP) Hannaford Milk (Chocolate/White) – Dairy Pure (Star-Dp), Ko- (O/UP), IGA (O/UP), Ingles (O/UP), Key Food (O/UP), Sure (Star-KP), Pride of the Farm (Star-KP) Florida’s Natural (No Pulp, Some Pulp) (O/UP), Food Mixes - Haddar (KAJ), Kasher V’Sameach, Mother’s Lion (O/UP), Kings (O/UP), Krasdale (O/UP), Lehigh Stufng Valley (O/UP), Morning Fresh (O/UP), Orchard Pure Molasses - Florida Crystals Food (O/KP) (O/UP), Redner’s Market (O/UP), Schnuck’s (O/UP), Mouthwash and Mint Spray - Adwe (KAJ) Shoppers Value (O/UP), ShopRite (O/UP), Signature Mufns - Oberlander’s (Kof-KP) Select (O/UP), Swiss (O/UP), Tipton Grove (O/UP), Tops (O/UP), Tree Ripe (OUP), Tropical Sun (O/UP), Mushrooms (Dried) - Kirsch (Kof-KP) Our Family (O/UP) Mustard (Imitation) - Rokeach Dijon Mustard Oven Bags Reynolds (O/UP), Savion Fireman’s Frenzy (O/UP) Pancake and Mufn Mix - Manischewitz (O/UP), Non Dairy Creamer - Eden (Star-KP), Unger’s (Star- Mother’s (O/UP), Tradition KP) Parchment Paper - Bakemark (Star-KP), Chef’s Noodles - Horowitz Margareten (O/UP), Select (Star-KP), Palisades Packaging (Star-K - no Manischewitz (O/UP), Miracle Noodles (O/UP), P required), 365 Everyday Value (Star-K - no P Season’s Brand (O/UP) required), Nuts - 21st Century (Star-KP), Gefen (O/UP), Golden Peppers - Osem (O/UP), Ungar’s (Star-KP) Fluf (O/UP), Great Lakes Pine Nuts (Star-KP), Haddar (KAJ), It’s Delish (Heart-KP), Kirkland 3 lb. Pistachios Personal Care Products - Adwe (O/UP) (O/KP), Kleins (O/KP), Meshuga Nuts (O/UP), Nature’s Pickles - B&W Foods (O/KP), Ba-Tampte (O/UP), Original - Cashews, Mixed and Pistachios (Star-KP), Eskal (O/U), Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Haddar Oneg (KAJ), Savion (O/UP), Setton Farms (O/KP) (KAJ), Kvutzat Yavne Foods (O/KP), Osem (O/UP), Pri Oil - Avocado - Arista (Star-KP), De La Rosa (Star- Vayerek (O/U), Sadaf (O/U), Season (O/UP), Ta’amti KP), Overseas Food Trading (Star-KP) (O/K), Unger’s (Star-KP) Oil Grapeseed - Arista (Star-KP), DeLaRosa (Star-KP) Pie Crust - Manischewitz (O/UP), Rokeach (O/UP) 28 Pierogies - Dayenu (O/UP) Raisins - Fresh Direct (O/KP) Pizza - Bernies Foods (O/UP), Dayeinu Restaurants in Los Angeles - The following Passover Pizza (O/UP), Noam Gourmet - Pizza Bagels Restaurants in Los Angeles will be open on Pesach & Squares (Star-KP) and provide Kosher L’Pesach meals and food: Pomegranate Juice - Kedem Pomegranate and Lieder’s: 8721 W. Pico (310) 909-7223 Sparkling Pomegranate (O/UP) Trattoria Natalie: 8681 W. Pico Blvd. (310) 246- Potato Chips - Bauer Sweet Potato Chips 1826 (O/UP), Blooms (O/UP), Cape Cod (O/UP), Guiltless Rice - for those Sephardim who use rice on Pesach, Gourmet Root Chips (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), Kayco, Carolina Rice (Long Grain White and Brown – with Manischewitz Regular & Chocolate Covered Chips Star-S P Kitniyot designation only), Goya (Medium (O/UP), Tuscanini, Paskesz (O/UP), Rufes (O/UP), Grain White Rice - with Star-S P Kitniyot designation Season’s (O/UP), Terra Vegetable Chips (Kof KP) only), Himalayan Pride Basmati Rice (Brown & White Potato/Instant - King Star Foods (O/UP) - No Star-S required, only regular Star-K), Super Potato Pancake Mix - Horowitz Margareten (O/UP), Lucky Elephant Jasmine Rice (No Star-S P required, Manischewitz (O/UP), Osem (O/UP) Streits (Kof-KP) only regular Star-K). Potato Starch - Gefen (O/UP), Goodman’s (O/UP), Salad (Bagged) - Star-K bagged produce is Kosher Haddar (KAJ), Hisachdus (CRC), Manischewitz (O/UP) for Pesach only with special Pesach certifcation on the bag. Kosher Salad Bar (All American Mix – O/UP) Potato Sticks and Chips - Blooms (O/UP), Golden Fluf (KCL), Paskesz (O/UP), Terra Yukon Gold Potato Rolls - Dayenu (O/UP) Chips (Kof-KP only) Salad Dressing - Blanchard & Blanchard (O/UP), Poultry (Raw) - any reliable Kosher brand that is not Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), processed or coated (i.e. raw). Some popular brands Manischewitz (O/UP), Mothers (O/UP), Sabra (O/KP), are: Alle (ground chicken breast requires Kosher for Savion, Season’s (O/UP) Passover certifcation), Empire, Falls, Vineland, Galil Salmon - Raskin’s Gourmet Salmon Roll (O/KP) (Star-K), Glatt Mart (Star-KP), Market Maven (Star- Salsa - Emzee Salsa (O/UP), Gold’s (O/UP), KP), Royal (Star-K),n s (Star-KP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Season’s (O/UP) Empire Raw Ground Turkey is only acceptable with Salt (Table/Sea) – Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), the O/UP, Belz, David Elliot Meal Mart (O/UP), and Glick’s (KAJ), Goya (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), HimalaSalt Naomi (O/UP). (O/KP), Kroger (O/UP), Laish Sea Salt (Badatz P), NOTE: Empire produces many of its products year Season (O/UP), Sysco (O/UP), Trader Joe’s Sea Salt round Kosher for Pesach. In fact most of their (Star-KP) products fall under this category. Some examples Salt (Substitute) - Freeda Free Salt, no salt, are Barbeque Chicken, Rotisserie Chicken, Barbeque unseasoned, Spice of Life - no salt/no sugar Turkey, Chicken Fat, Cooked Turkey Breast, White Sardines - King Oscar Sardines in Olive Oil (O/UP), Turkey Roll, Turkey Bologna Roll, Turkey Salami Season Moroccan Sardines (O/UP) Roll, Chicken Franks, Turkey Franks, Smoked Turkey Sauces - Blanchard & Blanchard Caribbean Hot Breast Slices, Chicken Bologna Slices, Turkey Sauce (O/UP), Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Glick’s Bologna Slices, Organic Wise Chickens (O/U) (KAJ), Gold’s (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), Kedem Steak Prepared Foods - Glatt Mart (Star-KP), Market Sauce (O/UP), La Pasta Tomato Basil Sauce (O/KP), Maven (Star-KP), Seven Mile Market (Star-KP), Laish Hot Red Pepper Sauce (O/UP), Mrs. Adlers Shoprite Chicken broth (Star-KP), Soupgirl (Star-KP), (O/UP), Manischewitz (O/UP), Mishpacha Bar-b-Que Tabatchnick’s (Star-KP) Sauce (O/UP), Osem (O/UP), Private Label Foods of Preserves - Haddar Just Fruit (no sugar) (KAJ), Rochester - Savory Pasta Sauce, La Pasta Traditional Kedem (O/UP), Osem (O/UP), Season (O/UP), Moon Sauce, Aharoni Pasta Sauce, (O/KP) Rokeach Shine Trading Co. (Rabbi Teichman), 778 (O/UP) Marinara Sauce (O/UP), Savion (O/UP), Season Manishchewitz (O/UP), Marinara & Duck Sauces (O/UP), Simcha Marinade Puddings - Haddar (O/UP), KoJel (O/UP), (cRc P), Tradition, Unger’s (Star-KP) Manischewitz (O/UP), Osem (O/UP) Seaweed - Sea Castle Roasted Seaweed and Quinoa - Goldbaum (O/UP), La Bonne (O/UP), Roasted Seaweed Snacks (O/UP) Geebaums (O/UP), Natural Earth Products (Star-K Scouring Pads - Gefen (O/UP), Glick’s (KAJ), P), Pereg (O/UP), Setton Farms (12 oz. container, Mishpacha (O/UP), Rokeach (O/UP), Season’s (O/UP), Star-KP required). In addition to quinoa, the O/U Scotch Brite (O/UP) says that Canihua, Kiwicha and Maca seeds are NOT Seltzer - Adirondack Plain Seltzer (O/UP), Avenue Kitniyos and therefore are acceptable with Pesach A Plain & Lemon Lime (O/U), Best Health Lemon, supervision. Lemon Lime (O/UP), BluPantry (O/UP), Cornell Quinoa Flour - Pereg (O/UP) Plain Ole Seltzer (O/UP), Foodtown Plain (O/UP), 29 Giant Lemon Lime (O/UP), Hannaford Plain & (O/KP), Haddar (cRc & KAJ), Lieber’s Lemon (O/UP), Keyfood Plain & Lemon Lime (O/U), (Weissmanel), Lucky Brand (O/UP), Quaker Market Basket (O/UP), Price Rite Plain, Lemon Diamond Pure Cane Extra Fine (O/KP), Spreckles Lime, Raspberry (O/UP), Refreshe Lemon Lime, (O/UP), Sweet Additions Organic Cane Sugar (O/KP), Raspberry, Plain (O/UP), Ritz Lemon Lime, Plain Trader Joe’s Pure Cane Granulated Sugar (O/KP), US (O/UP), Saratoga Carbonated Spring Water (O/UP), Foods Pure Cane Granulated Sugar (O/KP) Shoprite Coconut, Lime Mint, Cherry Vanilla, Lemon Sugar Substitutes - DS Sucralose –Splenda type Lime, Orange, Ginger, Plain (O/UP), Stop & Shop (Star-KP), California Delight Surcralis (Star-KP), Gefen Lemon (O/UP), Super Chill Plain (O/UP), Syfo Original (Star-KP), Health Garden Xylitol – plain & vanilla Seltzer (O/UP), Tuscanini Sparkling Grapefruit Water, (Star-KP), Kojel (O/UP), Lieber’s (Star-KP), Master Mineral Water Sparkling (O/UP), Wellsley Farms (O/UP), Nutra Taste Gold (O/UP), Paskesz Sweetie Plain (O/UP), White Rock Plain (O/UP) (Star-KP), Sucrazit (Badatz Aida Charaidis), Sweet Silver Polish - Adwe (KAJ), Haddar (KAJ), Rokeach ‘N Low (Gefen) (O/UP), V.I.P., Vthal Isomaltulose #1 (O/UP) Sweetener - 16 oz. (O/KP) Soda - Coca Cola Classic - Diet and Classic (Star-KP) Sushi Nori Sheets - Mizrach U’Maariv (Star-KP), Dr. Brown (with Kp only, under supervision of Rabbi Natural Earth (Star-KP) Bukspan), Glick’s (KAJ), Hansen’s (O/UP), Harrison’s Syrup (also see Chocolate Syrup) - Adirondack (O/UP), Jump Grapefruit, Strawberry Banana, Maple Syrup (Kof-KP), Bosco (O/UP), Fox’s U-Bet Orange (O/UP), Mayim Chayim, Pepsi - Regular & (O/UP), Haddar (KAJP), Harrison’s (O/K), Kedem Diet 2 Liter (with Pesach Certifcation only), R.C. Cola (O/UP), Manischewitz - Chocolate and Pancake (O/UP), Schweppes Seltzer (Kof-KP), Sodastream (O/UP), Osem (O/UP), Savion (O/UP), Season (O/UP), (O/UP) Silan Date Syrup (Rabbi Didi) Soap - Gefen (O/UP) Tea Bags - Ceremonie (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Soups & Soup Mixes - Carmel (O/UP), Croyden Festive (O/UP), Haddar (KAJP), Lipton Decafeinated House (O/UP), Gold’s (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), Unfavored Tea Bags (O/U w/or without Pesach Horowitz Margareten (O/UP), Lipton (O/UP), designation), Lipton (O/UP), Shoprite (O/UP), Sweet- Manischewitz Soup in a Cup – Canned & Broth Touch Tea (O/UP), Wissotzky (O/UP), Shoprite (O/UP) (O/UP), Osem (O/UP), Rokeach (O/UP), Shoprite Tea (Herbal) - Bigelow (Green Tea, Cinnamon Stick Chicken Broth (Star-KP), Soupergirl (Star-KP), Spring Tea, English Breakfast Tea, Peppermint Tea etc.) Valley Passover Clear Chicken Broth (no salt - symbol Good Earth (O/UP), G’Day Herbal Teas (Star-K), Magic required. Kosher for Pesach only when bearing Garden Pomegranate Orchard (O/UP), Senna and special Pesach certifcation), Tabatchnick’s (Star-KP), Mint Tea, Taanug Chamomille, The Secrets of Herbs Telma (O/UP), V.I.P (O/UP), Tradition (Kof-K) (O/UP), Swee-Touch-Nee Cinnamon & Apple, Lemon Soup Nuts - Festive (O/UP), Goodman’s (O/UP), Verbena, Orange Spice (O/UP), Wissotzky (O/UP) Haddar (KAJ), Season’s (O/UP), Horowitz Margareten Tea (Iced) - Gefen Diet Peach, Diet Raspberry,Kiwi (O/UP), Manischewitz (O/UP) Strawberry, Peach, Lemon & Raspberry Iced Tea Spices - (ground) - Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), (O/UP) Gilroy Farms (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), It’s Delish (Heart Tea (Instant) - Nestea Unfavored (regular - Decaf K), Lieber’s (Weissmandl), Natural Earth (Star-KP), not approved for Pesach use) Pereg (O/UP), Rokeach (O/UP), Spice Time (O/UP), Tomatoes, Sundried - Great Lakes (Star-KP) Sustainable Sourcing Organic Pink Peppercorns Toothpaste - Adwe (Kof-KP), Crest (from England (O/KP), West India Spices (O/KP only) with MKP) Sprays - Manischewitz Buttery Safower , Olive Tzimmes - Classic Cooking (Star-KP) Oil Spray & Olive Oil Garlic Cooking Spray (O/UP), Mishpacha Olive Oil Spray (O/UP), Mother’s Olive Oil Vanilla Sugar - Haddar (KAJP) Coating Spray (O/UP) Vegetables: Bagged Lettuce/Salad - All fresh Spreads - Moshe & Ali’s Tomato, Basil, packaged salads are Kosher for Pesach only with Mediterranean (O/UP) special Kosher For Pesach certifcation on the package. Stool Softener - Adwe (O/UP) Vegetables (Canned & Jarred) – BenZ’s Mushrooms Sugar (Brown) - Domino (with O/KP), Giant (O/KP), (Star-KP), Bloomy’s Pickled Beets (O/UP), California Hadar (KAJ), Spreckles (O/UP), Stop & Shop (O/KP), Delight - Hearts of Palm, Mushrooms, Potatoes Tops (O/KP), Trader Joe’s Light Brown Pure Cane & Yams (Star-KP), Festive (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Sugar (O/KP), Walgreen Nice! Light Brown Sugar Glick’s Yams in Syrup and Mushrooms (KAJ), Hadar (O/KP), Winn-Dixie Pure Cane Light Brown Sugar (KAJ), Lieber’s (Weissmandl), Manischewitz (O/UP), (O/KP) Mishpacha (O/UP), Rokeach (O/UP), Season (O/UP), Sugar (White) - Domino Sugar and Sugar Packets Unger’s - Beets, Carrots, Mushrooms & White (O/KP), Domino Demerare Sugar (O/KP), Gefen 30 Potatoes (Star-KP) Wine (Cooking) - Kedem (O/U Zehlemer Rav), Vegetable/Carrots, Fresh Peeled - Fresh Kedem Balsamic & White Vinegar (O/UP), Heinz peeled carrots, whole, cut or shredded require KFP (O/UP), Savion (O/UP) certifcation. The following are certifed for Pesach Wines With Pesach Certifcation from the Following by the Star-K: Del Monte (Star-KP), Garden Cut Rabbis & Kashrus Agencies Are Recommended: (Star-KP), Lancaster Foods (Star-KP), Sheetz M. T. Go Rav Babad (Tartikover Rav), Bedatz (Yerushalayim), (Star-KP) Rav Belinow, Rav Chazan, Chug Chasam Sofer Vegetables/Other Fresh Peeled - Del Monte (Petach Tikvah), Rabbi Frankfurter, Rav Gorelick, - Butternut & Yellow Squash, Yams, Zucchini (Star- Rabbi Hofman (Hungary), Lubavitch Beis Din, New KP), Garden Cut (Star-KP), The Farmer’s Market - Square, Rabbi Oyerbach, Rav Teitelbaum (Nirbatur Butternut, Yellow Squash, Yams & Zucchini (Star-KP), Rav), Tzelemer Rav, Rabbi Hillel Weinberger, Rabbi Wegman’s (Star-KP) Weissmandel, Rabbi Zelbach Vegetables (Frozen) - B-Tam (Star-KP), Bodek (O/UP), Xylitol - Health Garden (O/UP) Eden (Star-KP), Garden Pure (O/UP), Gefen (O/UP), Yogurt - Breyers (O/UPd), Crowley Nonfat & Lowfat Meitav (O/UP), Shneider’s (Star-KP), Wegman’s Plain Yogurt (O/UPd), Dannon (only when bearing (Frozen Butternut Squash and Riced Butternut O/UPd - cofee, & vanilla favors), J&J Yogurt (O/UPd), Squash - Star-KP) Mehadrin Authentic Greek Nonfat Yogurt Peach Vegetables - (Fresh) - Bodek (O/UPd), Nonfat Plain Yogurt (O/UPd), Norman’s Vinegar - Bartenura (O/UP), Carmel (O/UP), Glick’s (O/UP) (black cherry, strawberry, peach, vanilla, (KAJ), Hadar (KAJ), Heinz (O/UP), Kedem (O/UP), pomegranate, cofee light, strawberry light, vanilla Manischewitz (Balsamic and White O/UP), Osem light), Slim (O/UP) (O/UP), Season (O/UP), Unger’s White Vinegar (Star- KP) Vinegar - Balsamic - Bartenura (O/UP - Rabbi ITEMS TO BE CAUTIOUS OF Garelick), Kedem (O/UP), Mazetti (Rabbi Gerelick), Unger’s (Star-KP) FOR PASSOVER (5780-2020) Vitamins and Supplements - Floraheal Kosher Airline Meals - Chometz meals are sometimes Cholesto-Manage and Gentle Laxatives (Badatz), served by mistake. Landau Vitamin C Liquid (Rabbi Teitelbaum the Ant and Roach Traps - Often use edible Chometz Volver Rav), Natures Cure Natures Cal Plus – Calcium bait. (Star D), or look on the Koshervitamins website - Apple Juice - Nutrients (sometimes processed on www.koshervitamins.com vinegar equipment), enzymes, clarifying agents. Vodka - David’s Harp (O/UP), Lvov - imported from Applesauce - Corn syrup, sugar, dextrose, favoring Poland (O/UP), Prada - imported from Poland (O/UP) Baby Cereals & Baby Food - May contain wheat, Royal Elite (O/UP) sugar, and can be made on Chometz equipment Wafes - Bernies Foods (O/UP) Baby Powder - May contain Chometz Walnut Oil - Gefen (O/UP), Haddar (KAJ), Kedem Bath Treatments - Brands like Aura Cacia, Aveeno, (O/UP), Nut-Ola (O/UP), Shufra Relief MD and Wild Carrot Herbals all contain Water - Evian (O/UP), Voluic (O/UP), S. Pelegrino oatmeal, which is actual edible Chometz. They must Spring Water (O/UP), Valley Spring Water (O/UP) be sold or disposed of before Pesach Whip Topping - Kineret (Kof-KP), Unger’s (Star-KP) Bird Food - Many contain grain Wines - Abarbanel, Amiad (O/KP), Baron Herzog Brewer’s Yeast - Chometz California Wine Bartenura (O/UP – Mevushal), Brown Sugar - Culture, yeast, corn starch, may Carmel (all are O/UP and Mevushal), Arak, Citron contain wheat starch, machinery Liquor, Clovis Lesieutre (O/UP), Cuvee Leon (O/UP), Butter - Salt, coloring, preservatives, nutrients, De La Rosa Vineyards (Star-KP), Embassy Wine culture, lactic acid from corn (Star-KP), Gamla (O/UP – not all are Mevushal), Gan Eden (O/UP), Hagafen (O/UP - Mevushal), Herzog Candied Fruit - Dextrose, may contain powdered French (O/UP), J Furst (O/UP), Kedem Vermouth sugar, four Savion (O/UP), Kedem (note: 1 ½ Liter are NOT Canned & Frozen Fruit, Vegetables with Syrup - Mevushal), Kesser Rashi (O/KP), Korbel (O/UP only), May be iodized with four, dextrose (dietetic may Manischewitz (O/UP), Millesimato Kosher Val D’Oca contain grape juice), corn syrup Prosecco (Star-KP), Notte Prosecco (Star-KP), Recanti Cat Food - Wheat, cheese or whey together with Wines (O/UP), Star White (O/UP), Tam Pri Weinstock meat/chicken, oats and barley, Xanthan Gum, California Wines (O/UP), Teal Lake (O/KP -Chug Brewer’s Yeast (see listing under “Pet Foods”) Chasam Sofer) Cheese & Cottage Cheese - Stabilizers, corn sugar, 31 coagulating agent, microbial rennet from real Honey - Corn syrup, coloring (even if not Chometz, dextrose, cultures listed). Extra caution needed if it is from Chewing Gum - Corn syrup, favoring Turkey or China Cigars (Flavored) - Chometz alcohol Horseradish - Vinegar, sweeteners, hydrolyzed Chocolate & Chocolate Milk - Malt (real Chometz), vegetable protein, wheat gluten glucose Hydrolized Vegetable Protein (HVP) - Often is Chocolate Spread - From Israel may contain Chometz Kitniyos. Note: even though some chocolate spreads Ice Cream - Sugar, favorings, stabilizers with Kitniyos may state on the label K.F.P., it is Ingredients - Ascorbic Acid, Caramel, Citric Acid acceptable only for Sephardim who eat Kitniyos (often derived from glucose), Glucose (can be Cider Vinegar - May contain yeast that is real derived from wheat fermentation), HVP (hydrolized Chometz vegetable protein), Vitamin C Cofee - General Foods International currently is Israeli Products - Teruma, Maaser, Shemita: must processed on Chometz machinery. have reliable certifcation Cofee Substitutes/Alternatives - (i.e. Pero, Postum Ketchup - Stabilizers, oil, dextrose, vinegar (real and others) contain grain. chometz), favorings Cofee (Decafeinated) - May have been processed Kitniyos - Includes: beans, rice, citric acid, corn, with ethyl acetate (derived of grain alcohol), cofee dextrose, some types of favoring, hydrolized favoring may contain Chometz alcohol, as well as vegetable protein, soy, peanuts, sesame seeds, non- Kosher favoring. sorbitol, starch Condensed Milk - Sugar, preservatives and oil to Lactaid - Tablets may contain Chometz. Lactaid reconstitute Milk may be used if purchased before Pesach (non Confectionery Sugar - Corn starch (for instance, Cholov Yisroel) three percent in C&H) may contain wheat starch Lecithin - Kitniyos Creamer (Non-dairy) - Whey, emulsifers which are Lemon Juice - Chometz equipment dairy and Kitniyos, some contain corn syrup Liquor - May have grain alcohol base, wine, or grain Dairy Foods - Enzymes, stabilizers, favors & alcohol, or wine alcohol vitamins MSG - Wheat Dextrose - Corn derivative Maple Syrup - De-foaming agents Dishwashing Detergent - Cetyl alcohol (not Margarine - Emulsifers, artifcial favor, salt, sugar, Kosher), grain alcohol oil Dog Food - Barley, oats, wheat, Brewer’s Yeast, Maraschino Cherries - Glucose, dextrose (cut Xanthan Gum, cheese or whey and meat together cherries usually are colored red with carmine, an (see listing under “Pet Foods”) insect derivative) Dried Fruits and Raisins - Dried in Chometz ovens, Mayonnaise - MSG from hydrolyzed protein, oil, may contain Kitniyos oil, four favorings, sweeteners, vinegar Electronic cigarettes - due to the favoring it may Milk - Must be bought before Pesach and processed be non-kosher and Chometz by a dairy that does not make chocolate milk (see Emulsifers - Can contain glucose section on milk) Finger Paints - Some brands, including Elmer’s, Modeling Clay - Many brands includeing Crayole, contain wheat or oats and should be sold and put contain wheat and should be sold and put away away with the Chometz. with the Chometz or used up before Pesach. Fish Food - Wheat (see listing) Modifed Food Starch - The source for this is corn, Fish Frozen (wild salmon) - may have been frozen potato, tapioca, rice or wheat. This can often be in diluted corn syrup brine Kitniyos or actual Chometz. Must have special Pesach certifcation. Flour - Has been bleached and washed, therefore Chometz Mustard - Kitniyos. Some may even contain actual Chometz. (not to be confused with Kosher for Frozen Fruit Drink - Usually contain corn syrup, Passover imitation mustard) favoring Nuts - BHA, BHT, sprayed with Kitniyos (corn oil) Gelatin (Beef) - From all over the world, including Israel, not acceptable unless it has reliable Oil - Kitniyos certifcation, as it usually is processed from non- Orthodontic Rubber Bands - Should be rinsed Kosher slaughtered animals with cold water before Pesach Glucose - Corn or wheat derivative Paper Plates (inexpensive) - Coated with starch 32 Peanuts - Considered Kitniyos by most polysorbate, especially when iodized traditions Snacks - Bomba Snacks from Osem (Israel) is made Pecan Pieces or Midget - Chometz processing with corn and peanuts. This product is considered Peeled Vegetables - i.e. Carrots, potatoes (may be to be Kitniyos even though some of the packages washed and preserved with citric acid or dextrose mistakenly bear an O/UP. anti-oxident) Soda - Flavorings, dextrose, corn sugar Pet Food - Wheat, Brewers yeast, Barley, milk, cheese Soup cubes - Telma and others regularly contain or whey mixed with meat (which is not acceptable Chometz Yeast. year-round), (see listing) Soy Oil, Corn Oil - Corn syrup, soy lecithin all are Pickles - Vinegar (Chometz), favorings Kitniyos Play Dough - Edible four (must be discarded before Spices (Processed or Flavored) - Dextrose, favoring, Pesach) machinery Powdered Cocoa (Sweetened) - Powdered milk, Splenda - Contains Kitniyos corn sweetener Sugar - Many sugars are produced from corn and Products from Rabbanut of Israel - May contain are Kitniyos Kitniyos Sunfower Seeds - Kitniyos Quinoa - Requires verifcation that it is not mixed Tea (Instant) - May contain Kitniyos sweetener with Chometz. (Star-KP available) Tea Bags - All decafeinated tea bags without Rice - Ashkenazim do not use rice on Pesach Pesach certifcation are considered not proper for because it is considered Kitniyos. Sepharadim (who use on Pesach. eat rice on Pesach) must use additive - free rice. (See Tea (Herbal) - Chometz or non-Kosher favoring article) Tofu - Often processed using grain Alcohol Roach Poison - Combat brand (edible Chometz bait) (Chometz). Rubber Gloves (Powdered) - Chometz powder Traps (Insect & rodent) - Baits may contain actual Salads (Prepared in Bags) - May contain citric acid Choometz and should be put away with the Salt - Table salt often contains dextrose and chometz. All insecticide sprays may be used on

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The Kosher Information Bureau wishes everyone a Chag Kasher V’Sameach! 33 Pesach. For all fresh fruits with an O/U, Maaser has Tomato Products - Vinegar (Chometz), nutrients, already been taken. salt, sugar, Chometz machinery Starkist brand canned Tuna (O/UP) has a limited Tonic Water - Corn syrup run of O/UP canned tuna that was prepared with Tuna - Hydrolyzed protein, oil Bishul Yisroel. Vanilla Extract - Corn syrup, alcohol Kirkland Signature Frozen Atlantic & Wild Salmon is Vaping - According to Rav Sternbach, Vaping is under the O/U and Kosher for Pesach. This product considered in the category of food (eating) and should frst be rinsed with water before using for therefore, because of non-Kosher favoring, vaping Pesach. all year round is problematic from a Kashrus Sodastream brand Carbon Dioxide Cylinders are standpoint, and also may contain elements which O/U certifed for Pesach (not including favoring) may also be Chometz - an issur on Pesach. That is why he feels that this product needs proper FROM ERETZ YISROEL: Hashgacha all year round as well as for Pesach. There is a restaurant in Ben Gurion airport called Note: Vaping has been deemed to be dangerous to “Aroma Espresso Bar” under the Hashgacha of one’s health. Chug Chasam Sofer. This restaurant is closed during Vegetable wash - Kitniyos/Chometz Pesach and is fne immediately after Pesach. Vegetables (Frozen) - Can be processed on Chometz machinery – can be processed on KOSHER L’PESACH PRODUCTS Chometz machinery or use not Pesach approved anti-foaming agents. THAT CAN BE FOUND ON Vegetables from Israel (often Peppers) - Terumah, KOSHERVITAMINS.COM Maaser, Shemita Adirondack - Maple Syrup (Kof-K) Vinegar - in US usually from Kitniyos. From other Bakol - Organic Blue Agave Syrup (O/UP) countries often from Chometz Blue Green - Organic Light Blue Agave Nectar Vitamins - Yeast, starch, corn dextrose, wheat (note: (O/K) Freeda vitamins are Chometz-free) Dr. Faiman’s - Mimalayan Salt (cRc) Yeast - usually Kitniyos. Freedom - Chocolate Coconut (O/U) Geebaums - Red Quinoa (O/UP) Wine - Corn sugar, Chometz alcohol. Note: not all Goldbaums - Organic Chia Seeds and Almond Kosher wines are Kosher for Pesach, also many are Flour not Mevushal (cooked) (Check the label). Shemitah. Grain Brain - Carob Powder (Rabbi Binyomin Yogurt - Milk powder, enzymes, favoring, sugar Halevi Gruber) Haddar - Cashew Butter and Milk Powder - Cholov YIsroel (O/UP) UPDATES (5780-2020) Haddar - Olive Oil Cooking Spray (KAJ) Health Garden - Coconut Sugar and Confection FROM THE STAR-K: Sweetener (O/U) The Star-K Hadar Machine Matzohs will be La Bonne - White Quinoa available only as 18 minute Chabura Matzohs. Lieber’s - Stevia Sweets (Rabbi Weissmandl) These are the only Star-K machine Matzohs available Manischewitz - Cashew Butter (O/UP) this year. Matt’s Munchies - Mango Acai Fruit Snacks (Heart K) Star-K pre-packaged bags of salad require the Mishpacha - Coconut Flour (O/U) Star-KP symbol for Passover use. Natural Earth - Organic Quinoa (Star-KP) FROM THE KOF-K: Rorie’s - Grain Free Flour Blend (Rabbi Binyomin All Streit’s products produced in the United States Halevi Gruber) are under the duel Hechsher of Rabbi Moshe Wellbee’s - Super Fine Almond Flour (Rabbi Soloveitchik and the Kof -K. Mordechai Ungar Machon L’Kashrus) The Kof-K does not certify Joyva products as Kosher for Pesach. NEW PRODUCTS (5780-2020) FROM THE O/U: Absolutely - Potato Crisps (Tartikov) Amstelvelder - (Asher Eksteim - MKL) The O/U’s policy is that all regular tea bags, that are Benz’s - Sea Castle Flat Fillet Anchovies in Olive not favored or decafeinated, are acceptable for Pesach without special Pesach supervision. 34 Oil and Flat Fillet Anchovies in Olive Oil STAR-S P PRODUCTS Shipper. California Gourmet - Chocolate Chips (O/KP) (FOR SEPHARDIM – KITNIYOS) Chosen Bean - Cofee Cold Brew Org f/t Original The following are Passover products for 5780 from 32 oz. a division of the Star-K that caters to the specifc Elite - Nutty Cream Bar, Spearmint Gum (O/UP) needs of Sepharadim who eat Kitniyos and Shechita Exodus - Hopped Cider and Beef Jerky (Star-K) for Sephardim. Items bearing the Star-S P may Freedom Bar - Apple Cinnamon 15 ct, Chocolate include Kitniyos. These foods will also follow the Cocoa 15 ct. and Chocolate Coconut 15 ct. Beis Yosef standards regarding Bishul Yisroel etc. Gefen - White & Sweet Potato Fries, Sweetened/ The symbol for this Sephardic division is “Star-S P” Unsweetened Almond MIlk, Chewy Granola, and is under the direction of Rav Emanuel Goldfeiz Red Beets, Almond Flour & Milk (sweetened & unsweetened), Ground Walnuts, flberts, almonds, California Delight (Kitniyos) - Baby Corn (Whole real baking Chocolate, Rainbow Sprinkles, Chocolate Spears, Cut), Whole Kernel Corn Sprinkles, Rainbow Non-Pariel, Chocolate Chips Yerek Brand (Kitniyos) - Green Beans, Cut Green Mini (8 oz.), Hearts of Palm, Vacuum Packed Organic Beans, French Cut Green Beans, Green Peas, Peas Beets, Chicken and Onion Soup Mix. (O/UP) & Carrots, Cut Corn, Mixed Vegetables, Baby Lima H&E - Veggie Topper Medley & Veggie Topper Beans Beets (O/KP) Haddar - Almond Butter (O/UP) Rice (Kitniyos): Despite the fact that these rice Heaven & Earth - Croutons Medley Mix Veggie products are meticulously cleaned in the factories Toppers and Beet Sticks Veggie Toppers with advanced machinery, the Gedolei Haposkiim Kedem - Apple Juice, Organic Mini Grape Juice, of the Sephardic Kehillot feel that the established Apple Juice (8 oz.), Light Apple Juice (64 & 8 oz.) custom of checking the rice, grain by grain, 3 times, (O/UP) is still required. Therefore, Star-S P Kitniyot certifed Kosher Paws - Turkey and Chicken Dog and Cat Rice Products should be checked, grain by grain, 3 Food - O/UP (No Kitniyos or Gebrokts) times prior to its use on Pesach. Manischewitz - Beet Chips, Cold Brew Cofee and Carolina Mehadrin (Kitniyos) - Long Grain White Cold Brew Earl Grey Macaroons, Horseradish, Kosher Rice (Star-S P - Kitniyot) Sea Salt (O/UP) Manischewitz - Gluten Free Pizza (Chasam Sofer), Himalayan Pride Basmati Rice (Star-K Required/No Gluten Free Chocolate Milk Chocolate, Double Star-S P - Product is Kitniyot) Chocolate & Vanilla Wafers, Beet Chips, Sweet Potato Super Lucky Elephant Jasmine Rice (Star-K Chips, Earl Grey Cold Brew Macaroons, Cofee Cold Required/No Star-S P Required - Produce is Kitniyot) Brew Macaroons. Noway’s - No Way Its Gluten Free Rolls (O/UP) The following brands of Basmati, Jasmine and Paskesz - Gummi Magic Sour Bears (all natural Raw Rice, when bearing a Star-K symbol are color and real fruit juices - Rabbi Westheim) certifed as Star-S P Kitniyot. No Star-S P symbol Prime Food Products - Garden Chef (distributed by is required on the label: Blooms) - Cream Soup Mixes and Soup Consomme Kitchen King, Pari, Regal Harvest, Roland, Bases Sarveshwar, Sarveshwar 2, 3 & 5 Star, Sarveshwar Sea Castle - Flat Anchovies, Seaweed Snack (O/UP) Anu, Sarveshwar Choice, Sarveshwar Daily, The Cheese guy - Havarti with Dill, Smoked Sarveshwar Daily, Sarveshwar Delight, Sarveshar Provolone (semi hard cheese) and Danish Blue Fusion, Savreshar Kheer, Sarveshwar, Kinki, Cheese (O/UP) Sarveshwar Lily, Sarveshwar Magic, Sarveshwar Tuscanini - Tomato Juice, Sparkling Water, Olive Oil Maya, Sarveshwar Mithas, Sarveshwar Pearl, Extra Light, Crushed Tomatoes, Tomato Sauce and Sarveshwar PR-14, Sarveshwar Pride, Sarveshwar Tomato Juice (EUKP) Prime, Sarveshwar Regal, Sarveshwar Sara, Tuscanani - Sparkling Grapefruit Water, Sparkling Sarveshwar Select, Sarveshwar Star, Sarveshwar Lemon Water, Sparkling Orange Water (Badatz Ultra XL, Sarveshwar Unique, Vallabh Ratnak, Yadu Milan) Chaina Tuscani - Classic Potato Chips, snack bag and rippled Potato Chips Snack Bag (Badatz-Milan) STAR-S P NON-KITNIYOS PRODUCTS Unger’s - Potato Kugel Batter (Kosher L’Pesach for both Sephardim and Ashkenazim) ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES: De La Rosa Vineyards (Star-S P Required) - Brandy, Grappa, IceWine, Wines, Organic Grape Juice 35 Notte Italiana (Star-S P Required) - Prosecco (Stage 1, 2 & 3) Sonny Joe’s: Tahini Dip, Just Hummus Val D’Oca (Star-S P Required) Prosecco Stolichnaya: Vodka Gluten Free Val D’Oca (Star S P Required) Prosecco Supersnacks: Falafel Bit Snacks CANNED GOODS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: Ta’am Vareach Spices: Cardamom, Ground Fennel Telma: Corn Flakes California Delight Vegetables: (Star S P Required) - Hearts of Palm, Whole and Cuts & Pieces. O/K PRODUCTS THAT CONTAIN KITNIYOS California Delight Bishul Beit Yosef, Mashgiach AND REQUIRE AN O/KP FOR USE ON Temidi - (Star S P Required) Salmon Boneless PESACH Skinless FOR THOSE SEPHARDIM WHO EAT KITNIYOS: California Delight Bishul Beit Yosef, Mashgiach 24 Karat: Decafeinated Green Cofee Temidi - (Star S P Required) Tuna (Chunk “Tongol” Elite: Decafeinated Green Cofee in water, Chunk Light in water, Chunk White Galil: Fava Beans Regular and Double Peeled Albacore Tuna, Chunk Yellowfn in water, Solid White Gevalia: Decafeinated Green Cofee Albacore in water, Skipjack Chunk in water). Hag: Decafeinated Green Cofee Meat: (All Chalak Beit Yosef L’Sephardim when Imcopa Soy Lecithin Bearing Star-S Beit Yosef) Bierig Brothers (boxed J. Rettenmaier & Sohne Gmbh Natural Corncob veal), Glatt Ranch, (boxed beef), M&D Glatt (boxed Fractions beef, lamb and veal), Regal Foods (boxed beef). Jacobs: Decafeinated Green Cofee Kenco: Decafeinated Green Cofee For more information on the Star-S P program Mastro Lorenzo: Decafeinated Green Cofee call (410) 484-4110 (extension 217) or email at Maxwell House: 100% Colombian Cofee and [email protected] Decafeinated Instant Cofee (Canada) Moccapress: Decafeinated Green Cofee MEAT: Qinhuangdao Goldensea Foodstuf Baker Soy (All Chalak Beit Yosef L’Sephardim when Bearing Flour & Toasted Soy Flour Star-S Beit Yosef) R&G - BAR - Decaf Original Mainstream Shams Fava Beans and Double Peeled Fava Beans Bierig Brothers (boxed veal) Yuban: Traditional Ground Cofee (Canada) Glatt Ranch` (boxed beef) M&D Glatt (boxed lamb and veal) O/U PRODUCTS THAT ARE BOTH KITNIYOS & O/U MATZA ASHIRA: Regal Foods (boxed beef) AVIV: HONEY MATZOS, MINI EGG MATZOS For more information on the Star-S P program Hagada: Egg Matzo call (410) 484-4110 (extension 217) or email at Holiday: Chocolate (Milk and Dark) Egg Matzo [email protected] Horowitz Margareten: Egg Matzo O/U PRODUCTS THAT CONTAIN KITNIYOS Jerusalem Matzos: Egg Matzo AND REQUIRE AN O/UP KITNIYOT SYMBOL King Star Foods: Egg Matzo Manischewitz: Egg Matzos (chocolate covered: For Use By Those Who Are Permitted to Eat dark, double dipped, ultimate double dipped, Kitniyos On Pesach (i.e. Some Sephardim,Those ultimate smothered, white), Egg Matzo Tams Who are Ill, Infants): (everything, garlic, onion, original), Egg Matzo, Egg Ferrero - Kinder Chocolate, Nutella Spread Matzo Crackers, Yolk Free Egg Matzos) Neptune: Seasoning Mixes: BBQ, Cholent, Cooked Egg Matzo Tams: Everything, Garlic, Onion, Original Fish, Curry, Grilled Chicken, Grilled Fish, Jerusalem, Egg Matzo, Egg Matzo Crackers, Yolk Free Egg Matzo Pullet, Shakshouka, Shawarma, Steak Baharat, Matzot Carmel: Egg and Honey Matzoh Cardamom, Cardamom Ground, Coriander, Ground, Mosmarks: Egg Matzo Cumin Ground, Cumin Whole, Fennel Ground, Osem: Egg Matzo Hawaji for Cofee, Hawaji for Soup, Z’aatar Sesame. Rishon: Egg Matzo Osem: Gluten Free: Pretzels thins Sesame, Pretzels Shibolim: Egg Matzo Squares Whole Wheat and Thins Sa Salt Mini Whole Wheat Peanut Corn Snacks: Bamba Regular, Bamba with Shoprite: Egg Matzo Nouget Filling, Halva Filled, Strawberry Flavor. Traditional Matzos: Egg Matzos Popco Yanovsky : Matzo Sweet Shufersal: Infant Formula Milk Based with Iron Yehuda: Egg Matzos 36 THE FOLLOWING Life Brand Generation, Shake and Twocal) PRODUCTS ARE Little Ones Fibersource HN NOT CERTIFIED KOSHER Meijer Baby Member’s Mark Glucerna 1.0, 1.2 and 1.5 FOR PASSOVER BY THE O/U, Mom to Mom Isosource (plain and HN with nonetheless, the O/U has Moo Moo Buckaroo Fiber) Identified these products Mother’s Choice Jevity 1.0, 1.2, and 1.5 as halachically acceptable My Organic Baby Nepro (HP, LP, Vanilla, With Carb for infants and the ill. these Nature’s Place Steady Flavored) products must bear an O/U or Nestle Good Start Novasource Renal Nutren O/UD symbol: Next Step (Product Line) Nutraenfant Osmolite (1.0, 1.2, 1.5, HN BABY FOOD: O Organic Baby Unfavored) Carrots, Squash, Green Beans Parent’s Choice Perative (Kitniyos), Peas (Kitniyos) Premier Value Portagen INFANT FORMULAS President’s Choice Promote (except with Fiber) 365 Everyday Value Price Chopper Pulmocare Ameribella Puramino Resource Diabetic (Nestle America’s Choice for Baby Publix Nutrition), Thicken up Nestle Babies R Us Rite Aid - Tugaboos Nutrition, Thickened Water and Baby Basics Shopko Juice Products Nestle Nutrition) Baby’s Choice Similac (Regular, Advance Thick & Easy - Food and Bear Essentials Plus, Comfort, Gold w/HMO, Beverage Thickener Hormel Belacta (regular and premium) Lemehadrin and thickened Water and Juice Belactasure Neosure, Spit Up/AR, RTF, Special Products Hormel Berkeley & Jensen Care RTF) Thick-It - Original Food & Bright Beginnings Simply Right Beverage Thickener and Clear Cottontails Stop & Shop Advantage Food & Beverage CVS Sunrise Thickener Daily Source Supervalu Vital Discount Drug Mart Target Vivonex Pediatric, Plus and Ten Earth’s Best Tippy Toes By Topcare MILK SUBSTITUTES (Only in Elecare Top Care Shelf Stable, Non-Refrigerated Enfacare Topco Containers) Enfagrow Up & Up Almond Breeze Original Enfagrow Neuropro, Premium Vermont Organics Rice Dream Classic Original and Toddler Transitions Walgreens Soy Dream Original Enriched Gentlease Wegmans PEDIATRIC SUPPLEMENTS: Enfalac Well Beginnings Boost Kid Essentials 1.0 and 1.5 Enfamil (A.R., Enspire, Neuropro Western Family Boost Kid Essentials with Fiber Enfacare, Premature High MEDICAL NUTRITIONAL D-Vi-Sol Protein 24 Cal Per f. ox., SUPPLEMENTS Enfamil 5% Glucose Water Prosobee, Reguline) Abound Fer-In- Sol Drops Enfaport Arginaid (plain and extra) Poly-Vi-Sol Drops Enfapro Benecalorie Tri-Vi-Sol Drops Food Lion Beneprotein Resource Just for Kids with Fiber Full Circle Boost (Plus, Glucose Control, Pediasure Complesure, RpB, Fulton St. Market High Protein and Nutritional Peptide, Vanilla Powder and Gerber Good Start Pudding) Shakes Giant Diabetishield PEDIATRIC ELECTROLYTES: Giant Diabetisource AC Bright Beginnings Giant Eagle Baby Enfamil Human Milk Fortifer Comforts For Baby Hannaford Powder Cottontails H-E-B Enlive Cvs Pharmacy Heinz Nurture Ensure (Compact, Complete Enfamil Enfalyte Oral Electrolyte Home 360 Baby Hy-Vee Nutrition Shake, Healthy Solution Isomil Mom Shake, High Calcium Goodness Kirkland Signature Shake, High Protein Shake, H-E-B Baby Kuddles HN, Homemade Shake, Plus, Home 360 Baby Laura Lynn Plus HN, Plus Advance, Next Meijer 37 Mom To Mom Veggie Potato Pancake Mix Egg Matzo Snack Bits, Naturalyte Chicken Broth (natural & Gluten Chocolate Covered Shoprite Free) Egg Matzo and Tam Tam Parent’s Choice Osem: (O/UP): crackers. These items are only Pedialyte (all favors) Pretzel Thins – Sea Salt and permissible for the elderly, ill, Top Care Sesame or young children who are not Vivonex Ten Paskesz: able to properly digest regular Walgreen’s Cluster Crunch Cereal Matzah. Western Family Cracker Flats • “Pure Honey” from China has PRENATAL VITAMINS Crispits: (original, onion, garlic & been found to be adulterated Maxi Health (only with Chometz- everything) with corn and rice syrup. One free sticker) Soft Crunch Honey Granola brand was found to not even Style Bar (Honey/Almond and contain honey. GLUTEN-FREE/NON- Chocolate Drizzle) (pareve) • Zoo Alert: Be careful when GEBROKTS PRODUCTS FOR Yehuda (O/UP): visiting a zoo during Pesach not PESACH (5780-2020) Gluten Free Chocolate Covered to purchase animal food to feed Crackers the animals from the zoo, as Absolutely (O/UP): Unsalted Matzo-Style Squares most of them contain Chometz. Flat Breads and Crackers Soup Crackers • All ground processed spices Goldbaum (O/UP): Cake Meal & Fine Meal need Hashgacha for Pesach Crackers Marble Cake (even pure ground spices). Flatbread Crisps • Many types of cheese bearing Matzah style Shehakol Matzah reliable certifcation have a Jason (O/UP): ALERTS similar variety certifed for Coating Crumbs Pesach and non-certifed for Panko Coating Crumbs • Oat Milk is now commonly Pesach. Jef Nathan (O/UP): available and should NOT be • Last year, over 150 fake Pesach Panko Flakes confused with Soy Milk, as Oat certifcates were found in Israeli Kedem (O/UP): Milk is Chometz. See “Soy List” restaurants and establishments. Crispy O’s Gluten Free Frosted (Kitniyos) for Soy Milk that is Check carefully for authenticity Cereal not contaminated from Oat of Hashgacha. Absolutely Brand Crackers & Milk machinery. • Disposable Gloves in Flatbread • Be careful to check packages NorthShore University Kosherifc (O/UP): Caulifower of Kosher-for-Pesach items for HealthSystem: The NorthShore Cheesy Pie the Pesach certifcation. Some University HealthSystem Lieber’s (O/UP): non-Pesach Kosher products system currently uses Gluten Free Confetti Cookies have similar packaging to disposable gloves that have (vanilla & lemon) those products that are Kosher oat powder added to the inside Manischewitz (O/UP): for Pesach and can be easily to help maintain moisture on Brownie Mix confused. This is a common the hands of the employees Carrot Cake Macaroons issue in many supermarkets. who wear these gloves many Cookies - Raisins & Spice • Some brands of Finger Paints, hours a day. The oat powder Gluten Free Matzo-Style Squares including Elmer’s, contain is assumed to be Chometz and Gluten Free Crackers wheat or oats and should be edible and therefore Jewish Cake Mixes – Chocolate/Vanilla/ either used before Pesach or healthcare workers should not Yellow sold and put away with the use these gloves on Pesach, as Noodle Soup Mix Chometz. doing so would be considered Coconut Crisp Cookies • Not all Elite products bear to be having Hana’ah (beneft/ Pistachio Orange Macaroons recommended Hashgachos. pleasure) from Chometz. It is Spiral Shaped Noodles Check the label for proper permitted for Jewish patients Shell Shaped Noodles Hashgacha. to be treated by healthcare Yolk Free Medium Egg Noodles • Caution should be used when workers wearing these gloves Wide Egg Noodles buying Matzos to be sure that on Pesach and those who Passover Noodles they are not Chometz or in the want to be extra careful about Fine Egg Noodles category of “Matzah Ashira”. avoiding Chomoetz should Hazelnut Trufes Some examples of Matza Ashira wash their hands afterwards. Viennese Crunch are: Manischewitz White Grape The brand is believed to be Biscottis Matzo, Grape Bit Crackers, Egg Restore. Pie Shell Matzo, Egg Matzo Crackers, 38 FROM THE O/U: WHISKEY ALERT • Espresso Club Cofee: The O/U does NOT certify (concerning Chometz She’Ovar Alav HaPesach) Espresso Club Decafeinated Cofee pods as an O/UP - Passover product. This product bears an AKO: ASSOCIATION OF KASHRUS unauthorized O/U kosher for Passover sticker. ORGANIZATIONS • Jungle Island Florida: There is a social media We recommend that Kashrus Agencies and image that is circulating about Jungle Island consumers change their policies and only consume Florida that includes a statement “Glatt Kosher O/ those alcoholic beverages which [are free of UP for Passover”. This is an unauthorized use of standard Kosher concerns and] are known to the O/U symbol. The O/U does not certify Jungle (a) Be produced by a non-Jewish company or a Island. Jewish-owned company which arranged for the • Kirkland Purifed Water With Minerals: sale of their Chometz Unfavored, Purifed Water generally does not (b) Not contain any Chometz, including not having require certifcation for Pesach. However, when Chometz secondary grains or malted barley containing a Citric Acid, such as Krikland brand, (bourbon and cordials are examples of items that which lists “calcium citrate” in its ingredients, the may have these forbidden items), and/or water should NOT be used without reliable Pesach certifcation. . Unfavored water, with other (c) Were not aged over Pesach (e.g. vodka). minerals added, do NOT require certifcation for For a Current List of Possibly Problematic Liquors Pesach. Due to Chometz She’Avar Alav HaPesach according • Sonny & Joe’s Tahini Dip for Pesach: The O/U to extensive research of the cRc please check www. Certifed a special Passover production of Sonny crcweb.org & Joe’s Tahini Dip which is a kitnios product. These containers are labeled with an O/U sticker KOSHER CERTIFICATION that states “approved for those who eat kitnios on Passover”. Some of the Passover Tahini Dip LABELING containers were mistakenly labeled with a plain O/ Kosher certifcation is often followed by one of the UP Kosher for Passover sticker, without specifying following details of the product: that the product is Kitniyos. D: Dairy FROM THE O/K: Y: Yoshon CY: Chalav Yisroel Mevushal or MV: * Klein’s Naturals Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds: K: Kitniyus cooked or pasteurized Please be advised that a limited number of display wine/grape juice PY: Pas Yisroel cases for Klein’s Naturals Dark Chocolate Covered Parve: not dairy or meat Almonds, sold at Costco, were mistakenly labeled F or FS: Fish with an O/UP symbol. Individual product bags are DE: processed on dairy MT: Meat equipment correctly labeled with a plain O/K symbol, Kosher Pareve for year round use. G: Glatt MT: Mashgiach Temidi P: Passover BY: Bishul Yisroel

בס״ד KITCHENS KASHERED by Rabbi Y. Feiglin For Pesach and year-round שליט״א Endorsed by Rabbi Eliezer Eidlitz

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TIMES TO REMEMBER FOR PESACH 2020 - 5780 (IN THE L.A. AREA)

Tuesday, April 7 ...... Bedikas Chometz in the evening Wednesday, April 8 ...... Fast of Firstborn: frstborn attend a siyum to avoid fasting Last Time to Eat Chometz 10:23 a.m. (M.A.) / 10:47 a.m. (GRA) Biur Chometz: 11:39 a.m. (M.A.) / 11:51 (GRA) Wednesday, April 19 ....(Eruv Tavshilin) Candle Lighting 1st night: 7:02 p.m. Midnight (Chatzos): 12:54 a.m. Thursday ...... Candle Lighting 2nd night: after 8:06 p.m. (45 min.) / 8:33 p.m. (72 min.) Friday, April 10 ...... Candle Lighting 7:03 pm Shabbos, April 11 ...... Motzei Shabbos 8:07 p.m. (45 min.) / 8:34 p.m. (72 min.) Tuesday, April 14 ...... Candle Lighting 7th Night 7:06 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 15...... Candle Lighting Last Night: after 8:10 p.m. (45 min.) / 8:37 p.m. (72 min.) Motzei Yom Tov ...... 8:11 p.m. (45 min.) / 8:38 p.m. (72 min.) 40