APRIL 2016 I 1"ga, ixhb COR - KASHRUTHwhat’s cooking? COUNCIL OF CANADA “and you shall tell your children” PASSOVER 2016 u"ga, jxp COR 2016-5776 PASSOVER GUIDE 1 what’s cooking? COR 2016-5776 PASSOVER GUIDE 2 RABBINICAL VAAD HAKASHRUTH Chairman: Rabbi Yacov Felder Chairman Emeritus: Rabbi Yitzchok Kerzner Rabbi Amram Assayag • Rabbi Avraham Bartfeld • Rabbi Shlomo Bixenspanner • Rabbi Chanoch Ehrentreu Rabbi Shlomo Gemara • Rabbi Ovadia Haboucha • Rabbi Yossel Kanofsky • Rabbi Mendel Kaplan Rabbi Yaakov Kaufman • Rabbi Uri Kaufman • Rabbi Daniel Korobkin • Rabbi Chaim Kulik Rabbi Yisroel Landa • Rabbi Rafi Lipner • Rabbi Moshe Lowy • Rabbi Yirmiya Milevsky • Rabbi Yosef Oziel Rabbi Dovid Pam • Rabbi Meir Rosenberg • Rabbi Mordechai Scheiner • Rabbi Dovid Schochet Rabbi Raphael Shmulewitz • Rabbi Chaim Strauchler • Rabbi Yehoshua Weber KASHRUtH COUnCiL BOARD Of DiRECtORS Chair: Dr. ira Marder Past Chair: Mr. Martin Maierovitz, z”l Vice Chairs: Mr. Jack feintuch • Mr. Shimshon Gross • Mr. naftali Winter Secretary: Mr. Ari Messinger Treasurer: Mr. Moshe Sigler Assistant Treasurer: Mr. Moishe Kesten Assistant Secretary: Mr. Michoel Klugmann Executive: Mr. Daniel Bitton • Mr. nathan Bleeman • Mr. Meyer feldman • Mr. David Kleiner • Mr. Marvin Sigler • Mr. David Woolf Mr. Robert Benmergui • Rabbi neil Cohen • Mr. Yehoshua Czermak • Mr. Ben fefferman • Mr. Shlome Goldreich Mr. Allan Gutenberg • Mr. Mark Halpern • Mr. Paul Jacobs • Mr. irving Karoly • Mr. Jerrold Landau Mr. Brian Lass • Mr. Elie Mamann • Mr. isaac E. Oziel • Mr. Ronald Rutman • Mr. Simon Schonblum Mr. Avrum Waisbrod • Mr. Meyer Zeifman • Mr. Shmuel Zimmerman • Dr. Leibel Zoberman KASHRUtH COUnCiL StAff Chairman, Rabbinical Vaad Hakashruth: Rabbi Yacov Felder Director of Industrial Kosher, Kashrus Administrator: Rabbi Sholom H. Adler Director of Community Kosher: Rabbi Tsvi Heber Rabbinic Liaison: Rabbi Yosef Oziel Managing Director: Mr. Richard Rabkin Director of Operations: Mr. Jay Spitzer Rabbinic Coordinators: Rabbi Avrohom Lowinger • Rabbi Joshua norman • Rabbi Dovid Rosen • Rabbi Yechiel teichman Head Mashgiach: Rabbi Mendel Brogna Senior Mashgichim: Rabbi Mendel Gansburg • Mr. Moshe Mayer Mrvic Senior Rabbinic Field Representatives: Rabbi Binyomin Kreitman • Rabbi nachman Ribiat Shechita Division: Rabbi Shlomo Bixenspanner Junior Developer & Field Representative: Mr. Chaim Ribiat Administrative Assistant & Customer Service Representative: Mrs. Albina Aminob Office Support: Mrs. Barbara Bar-Dayan Administrative Assistant: Mrs. Wanda Bengio Executive Assistant & New Client Representative: Mrs. Judy Pister Account Specialist: Ms. Sarah Rosen Administrative Assistant & Customer Service Representative: Mrs. Esther Scheer Accountant: Mrs. Olga Sekiritsky KOSHER CORnER EDitORiAL StAff Editor-in-chief: Mr. Richard Rabkin Senior Halachic Contributor Rabbi Dovid Rosen Contributing Editor & Advertising Coordinator: Ms. Sarah Rosen Senior Staff Writer Ms. Sari Cohen Design & Layout: RB Creative Photography: Katan Studio COR- Kashruth Council of Canada Live in Edmonton for ANSWERS & APPETIZERS: A PRE-PESACH COMMUNITY EVENT SUNDAY, APRIL 3RD 7:30 PM WEST EDMONTON MALL, CONFERENCE ROOM 7 3000, 8882 170 STREET, EDMONTON, ALBERTA COR Rabbis will highlight the most frequently asked questions received on the COR Passover Hotline and perform a live insect checking demonstration. Learn the techniques that COR’s professional mashgichim use every day! A selection of complimentary appetizers and desserts will be served www.cor.ca • 416.635.9550 • [email protected] ANSWERS & APPETIZERS: A PRE-PESACH COMMUNITY EVENT TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH, 2016 APPETIZERS AT 7:30 PM • ANSWERS AT 8:00PM AISH THORNHILL COMMUNITY SHUL 949 CLARK AVENUE WEST, THORNHILL RABBI DOVID ROSEN: 1 hour; 100 questions COR’s Rabbi Rosen answered over fi ve thousand Pesach related questions last year. In 1 hour he will go through 100 of the most frequently asked Pesach questions. Introductory remarks by Rabbi Avram Rothman, Rav of the Aish Thornhill Community Shul A selection of complimentary appetizers and desserts will be served by Levy’s Catering. www.cor.ca • 416.635.9550 • [email protected] contents 4 11 WELCOME / 4 Rabbi Felder’s Message / 6 Dr. Marder’s Message / 7 Nisan Calendar / 8 41 Important Pesach Dates and Times / 9 ARTICLES OF FAITH / 41 LAWS AND 51 Teach Your Children GUIDELINES / 11 Who They Are / 41 Establishments & Services Benaya Yechiel Eshkar, for Passover / 11 of Blessed Memory / 43 PROPRIETORS, Passover Product Guide / 13 HIT: Questions and Answers PARENTS AND Kitniyot / 18 from the Halacha Line / 46 PASSOVER / 73 Common Kitniyot Items / 19 A Kosher Jew in a Non-Kosher Giraffe Foods / 73 Wokplace / 48 Guidelines for use of Global Botanical / 74 Medications and Personal Natur-a / 75 Care Products on Passover / 20 YOU SHALL TELL YOUR Sol Cuisine / 76 Chametz Free Medications / 21 CHILDREN / 51 Sweets from the Earth / 77 Personal Care Products / 22 Interviews with Machanchim Victory’s Kitchen /78 Kashering for Passover / 27 and Mechanchos Tevilat Kelim / 32 Vancouver: Rabbi Don Pacht / 52 Shaimos Guidelines / 34 Calgary: Pet Food on Passover / 35 Rabbi Chaim Greenwald / 54 Pesach Traveler Checklist / 37 Toronto: Rabbi Yehuda Oppenheimer / 58 Top 10 Questions from the COR Passover Hotline / 38 Toronto: Mrs. Sara Munk / 61 Montreal: Rabbi Shmuel Mellul / 63 Halifax: Mrs. Bassie Feldman / 65 All in the Family / 67 BEHIND THE COR / 79 COR Gets Cracking / 79 79 How your Questions get Answered / 81 COR Launches First of its Kind College Accredited Mashgiach Training Program / 83 Meet the Sobeys Mashgichim / 85 COR Company Updates / 87 73 Supervised and Unsupervised Events / 88 WHAT’S COOKING / 89 COR Recipes / 91 Guest Chef Recipes / 95 Be a Healthy Eating Role Model / 96 KIDS CORNER / 99 Chewing Kosher Gum / 99 89 Shmuli is Cooking Up Trouble / 104 99 Coby and the Flying Jets / 109 Activity CORner / 110 Welcome rABBi FElDEr’S mESSAGE miracles that led to our redemption greater Toronto community suff ered At the seder, and becoming the nation of Hashem. a tragic loss in the passing of our we recite in the Hagaddah A major focus of the seder is the esteemed mashgiach Reb Benaya hrv ohrmn ,thmhc rpxk vcrnv kfu" ohrmn ,thmh ruphx, relating to our Eschar, k"z. Although he lived in “jcuan vz “the more one elaborates children all that Hashem did for us Toronto for only a few years, Reb upon the Exodus, the more he is in Mitzrayim, thereby fulfi lling the Benaya was an integral member of our praiseworthy”. Why do our sages mitzvah of lbck ,sdvu. When we COR Foodservice hashgacha and made encourage us to expand upon these recount in great detail the wonders a profound impact on so many of us. miracles in order to fulfi ll the mitzvah that Hashem did for us as though His deeply rooted iujycu vbunt even of ohrmn ,thmh ruphx? we experienced them ourselves, we in the face of great adversity, Further in the Hagaddah, we recite transmit our sentiments about ohna ,trhu oav ,cvt, his love and tuv ukhtf unmg ,t ,utrk ost chhj ohrmn ,thmh with enthusiasm and respect of Hashem, combined with his ohrmnn tmh - each person is obligated vibrancy, thereby impressing upon refi ned character and humble nature, to view himself as if he left Mitzrayim. our children the greatness of Hashem continuously inspired us and endeared When most people experience and the glory in becoming His nation. him to us all. lurc urfz hvh, may his something miraculous, they enumerate Actions speak louder than words. memory be a blessing, and may his the details to anyone who is willing When our children see us enthusi- wife and children, his parents and his to listen. They will enthusiastically astically involved, they will be more entire family have a rta lu,c vnjb expand on the specifi cs as if they are infl uenced than if we just speak to ohkaurhu iuhm hkct may they be reliving the experience. Likewise, the them. Likewise, when children follow comforted amongst the mourners of more we discuss the greatness of the in the footsteps of their parents, it is Zion and Jerusalem. miracles that Hashem performed in a testament to the parents who were We, at COR, continue to expand Mitzrayim, the greater the demonstra- able to transmit these values to their with new endeavors that will enhance tion that we feel as though it is truly families through their actions. kashrus and improve our community our salvation. When we can actually The theme of this year’s Pesach services. Our most recent project was appreciate that we ourselves were Guide is lbck ,sdvu. At COR, we are the Mashgiach Training Course which redeemed, then we will not become privileged to have numerous people is detailed further in this publication. tired of discussing all of the miracles who are involved in kashrus for the This revolutionary course is the fi rst at length. second generation. Some of these of its kind (as far as we know), and we The mitzvah to recite the Haggadah prominent members of the COR, are express our gratitude to Rabbi Tsvi and discuss Hashem’s miraculous featured later in the Guide. Serving Heber, COR’s Director of Community deeds in Mitzrayim is fulfi lled when as Chairman of the Rabbinical Vaad Kosher, his assistants and the “First the Matzah and Maror are in front of Hakashruth, I too fi t into this category Class” graduates for this ground us - lhbpk ohjbun rurnu vmn aha vgac. as my father Rabbi Gedalia Felder breaking project. The reason for this requirement can k"mz was the founding Chairman of I would like to express sincere now be understood. Our objective is