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Links to kosher symbol lists. Each list is obviously only as reliable as its source


cRc: http://www.crcweb.org/agency_list.php

KosherQuest: https://kosherquest.org/kosher-symbols/

Approved alcoholic drinks from the Rabbanut.  http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/wp-content/uploads/%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D.pdf

These are NOT Orthodox: https://sites.google.com/site/nonorthodoxkosher/home (even though some may look legit)


Informative post regarding Kashrus Agencies
Every hashgacha has +&-.


You can also submit any kashrus questions at
https://www.askcrc.org/ask
https://oukosher.org/ask-kosher-question/
https://www.star-k.org/ask-rabbi choose General Consumer Kashrus Questions in the Subject/Topic Dropdown list
https://www.ok.org/contact/ choose Kosher in the Attention Dropdown list

From now till Pesach thousands of Q’s will be coming in. The attached excerpts and links from Pesach guides of various National Hashgachos can answer 90+%  of the Q’s coming in.
https://www.kashrut.com/Passover/
In addition, the cRc Chicago just put out an amazing app with a Pesach section (and an ability to scan a hechsher!). You can also visit Askcrc.org , check of the Pesach box and search their data base.
The OU app also has a lot of Pesach info at your fingertips.

Quick links:
OU certified items, No P needed-
https://www.kashrut.com/Passover/pdf/OU_2025_NoOUPNeeded.pdf
Star K list no need for Pesach Certification-
https://www.star-k.org/articles/wp-content/uploads/no-p-required-list.pdf
Quick pick personal care item-
https://www.star-k.org/articles/wp-content/uploads/qp-pc-list.pdf
cRc list milk substitutes, nutritional supplements, and infant formulas-
https://www.kashrut.com/Passover/pdf/crc_passover_2025_supplements.pdf
cRc list Pesach pet food-
https://www.kashrut.com/Passover/pdf/crc_passover_2025_pets.pdf
JSOR Pesach liquor list-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LhVz5Yri532StmifD13RCE9Hi-Uf3juj/view?usp=sharing
cRc Pesach liquor list-
https://www.kashrut.com/Passover/pdf/crc_passover_2025_liquor.pdf
JSOR Sephardic foods acceptable without P  (only for Sephardim)-
https://www.kashrut.com/Passover/pdf/JSOR_passover_2025_food_only.pdf
Costco 2025 KLP list-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uHiQ4-ni5fvjteo1nFHqCk4h6w4NZ7QF/view?usp=sharing



Author Topic: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread  (Read 1564453 times)

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7860 on: June 12, 2025, 09:10:51 AM »
@mevinyavin what does Rav Berkowitz say about these sellers?

There are so many "Frum Families" who eat so many things that anyone who goes further than "It has a hechsher"  would never eat.
Never heard him discuss this. He is on record as saying that sellers of food must have a hashgacha. If they sell sealed food with a hashgacha, then you have to know what the shitos and system of the hashgacha is. What else is new?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7861 on: June 13, 2025, 07:47:50 AM »
Ricolas which only have a Swiss Hechsher - R' Schlezinger, is that acceptable?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7862 on: June 13, 2025, 07:51:57 AM »
Ricolas which only have a Swiss Hechsher - R' Schlezinger, is that acceptable?
Hechsher or no hechsher, sticker or no sticker, the below equally applies. This is not hashgacha based.

https://consumer.crckosher.org/alerts/ricola-lozenges-recommended-list/
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7863 on: June 13, 2025, 07:55:40 AM »
Hechsher or no hechsher, sticker or no sticker, the below equally applies. This is not hashgacha based.

https://consumer.crckosher.org/alerts/ricola-lozenges-recommended-list/

Thanks.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7864 on: June 13, 2025, 07:56:49 AM »
Thanks.

Lemon mint. It's a bag. R' Schleinger - שוויץ.
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7865 on: June 13, 2025, 09:36:56 AM »
my Freind is stuck in Rome for Shabbos 2 lady's can someone clear out the Hecheserim there if they can eat ?

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7866 on: June 13, 2025, 03:17:29 PM »
Thanks.

Lemon mint. It's a bag. R' Schleinger - שוויץ.

Rav Shlesinger and his brother who is the Rov in Geneva are both huge Chareidi Talmidei Chachomim and Kashrus geniuses. Very trustworthy

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7867 on: June 15, 2025, 09:23:36 PM »
Are you referring to the rivash? Who argues?

Not following your train of thought. I was working with the Rav Akiva Eigar/Rivash and assuming it is a problem, and wondering why it should be different if a אומר מותר does it for someone else.

How are you explaining the difference?

Realized that I totally missed this post of yours……

No I wasn’t referring to anyone who is arguing with the Rivash.

The point I was trying to make was this. All the Rivash and RAE are mechadesh is that being mevatel למי שרוצה לקנות is as if it is בשבילו.
Now when we are talking about a case where a yid is the mevatel then if it was במזיד there is room for a knas שלא יהנו מעשיו הרעים but when it is done בשוגג a knas isn’t  warranted.
This as said is when the mevatel is a Yid but when the mevatel is a non Jew who has no issur for himself then knas doesn’t apply. The issur of instructing him to do it for you is that when instructing him it is as if you yourself are doing it, and then this idea is extrapolated by some poskim to a case he did it for the yid but without the yid specifically instructing him to do it (for example he does it for him since he wants the yid to buy it from him….).

According to this אומר מותר shouldn’t be a problem since we are talking about a yid being mevatel and since he is considered a שוגג no knas is applied.

Why the reasons should be different is something I don’t fully understand but so it seems from the way the Poskim put it.

Now there is an additional twist to this. There is a disagreement between the poskim whether the issur of מי שנתבטל בשבילו is only when it is ניחא ליה or even when it isn’t. It is explained that this depends on the two reasons for the knas if it was on the מבטל- שלא יהנו מעשיו הרעים or on whom it was done for דחיישינן שיבואו אנשים לצוות לבטל. If the second option would be true then here too by אומר מותר the one who it was done for should get a knas if it were במזיד as the כתב סופר points out…..

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7868 on: June 15, 2025, 09:55:37 PM »
Realized that I totally missed this post of yours……

No I wasn’t referring to anyone who is arguing with the Rivash.

The point I was trying to make was this. All the Rivash and RAE are mechadesh is that being mevatel למי שרוצה לקנות is as if it is בשבילו.
Now when we are talking about a case where a yid is the mevatel then if it was במזיד there is room for a knas שלא יהנו מעשיו הרעים but when it is done בשוגג a knas isn’t  warranted.
This as said is when the mevatel is a Yid but when the mevatel is a non Jew who has no issur for himself then knas doesn’t apply. The issur of instructing him to do it for you is that when instructing him it is as if you yourself are doing it, and then this idea is extrapolated by some poskim to a case he did it for the yid but without the yid specifically instructing him to do it (for example he does it for him since he wants the yid to buy it from him….).

According to this אומר מותר shouldn’t be a problem since we are talking about a yid being mevatel and since he is considered a שוגג no knas is applied.

Why the reasons should be different is something I don’t fully understand but so it seems from the way the Poskim put it.

Now there is an additional twist to this. There is a disagreement between the poskim whether the issur of מי שנתבטל בשבילו is only when it is ניחא ליה or even when it isn’t. It is explained that this depends on the two reasons for the knas if it was on the מבטל- שלא יהנו מעשיו הרעים or on whom it was done for דחיישינן שיבואו אנשים לצוות לבטל. If the second option would be true then here too by אומר מותר the one who it was done for should get a knas if it were במזיד as the כתב סופר points out…..
Thanks.
I don’t fully understand it as well. Also don’t understand why חיששינן שיבואו אנשים לצוות shouldn’t apply when the person it was done for was a shogeg.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7869 on: June 16, 2025, 11:37:17 PM »
Also don’t understand why חיששינן שיבואו אנשים לצוות shouldn’t apply when the person it was done for was a shogeg.
Because it’s still in the form of a knas and a knas doesn’t apply in a שוגג case.
(Except for אטו מזיד which doesn’t apply here….)

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7870 on: June 18, 2025, 06:56:35 PM »
Any potential issues with meat from M&D Glatt INC certified by StarK and VHF (Vaad Kashrus Flatbush) to be aware of or to ask my Rov about?

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7871 on: June 18, 2025, 06:58:40 PM »
Any potential issues with meat from M&D Glatt INC certified by StarK and VHF (Vaad Kashrus Flatbush) to be aware of or to ask my Rov about?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7872 on: June 24, 2025, 10:31:09 AM »
anyone hear of Rav Shlomo Issacson associated with K.O.A. ?

Any update or news on KOA since 2013? I see he certifies sealed Krispy Kreme donuts now in NYC. Is he reliable? Not looking for CY or anything like that.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7873 on: June 24, 2025, 10:36:02 AM »
Any update or news on KOA since 2013? I see he certifies sealed Krispy Kreme donuts now in NYC. Is he reliable? Not looking for CY or anything like that.
Not up to mainstream standards but hopefully on the way to improving. Heard they’re looking for a new Rav Hamachshir.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7874 on: June 24, 2025, 10:38:44 AM »
Not up to mainstream standards but hopefully on the way to improving. Heard they’re looking for a new Rav Hamachshir.

Ugh, OK, thanks.

Looks like they only have two Rabbonim on their staff, so changing that would essentially be a whole new hashgacha.

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7875 on: June 24, 2025, 10:41:58 AM »
What's the deal with Mexican Coke these days?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7876 on: June 24, 2025, 10:45:32 AM »
With trump cracking down on the border it's getting harder for the dealers...

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7877 on: June 24, 2025, 10:46:14 AM »
What's the deal with Mexican Coke these days?
You mean if the cartels are having trouble bringing it in with trumps border crackdown?
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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7878 on: June 24, 2025, 12:00:38 PM »

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Re: Kosher, Kashrus and Hechsherim Master thread
« Reply #7879 on: June 24, 2025, 06:08:24 PM »