Kashrut
‘There was no uniformity and there were many certifications that were questionable. The challenge was to set the standard.’ Which…
Crash course on the kashrut of eggs
At a bar mitzvah in Englewood, New Jersey, in the mid-1980s, Rabbi Menachem Genack, early in his career as rabbinic…
The shidduch between Nat and kashrut was odd, to say the least. It surely does not appear, at least on…
In this day and age, reading labels just doesn’t tell the whole story. What does this mean for kosher consumers…
2023 marks 100 years of OU Kosher.
Ten years later, the city’s Commissioner of Markets still estimated that 40 percent of the “kosher” meat sold in New…
Ensuring the availability of a wide range of kosher products in suburban grocery stores, and increasingly, supermarkets, was crucial to…
A timeline of OU Kosher's development
A behind-the-scenes look at the largest and most widely-recognized kosher certification agency
The presence of an OU certification mark attests to the vitality of the Jewish community in the US.
