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Harvey Blitz

In 1994, I was a member of the Kashrut Commission when the OU gave kosher certification to Hershey’s. It was…

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Steve Savitsky

The kids looked at me, flabbergasted: “Well, if you can’t trust the OU, you can’t trust anybody!”

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Meet the Mashgichim

Ever wonder what an OU mashgiach really does?

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Rabbi Shoshan Ghoori

It is not unusual for him to prepare by applying copious amounts of bug spray and donning heavy rubber boots…

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Rabbi Yisroel Hollander

Even now, with airports still in post-Covid chaos and gas prices at nosebleed levels, the rabbi continues on his journeys.…

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Phyllis Koegel

Over the past sixteen years, Koegel has brought in over 2,000 new brands and over 250,000 new products, among them…

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Rabbi Reuven Nathanson

His perception, focus, and ability to target and resolve kashrut challenges is razor-sharp. Little gets past him.

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Rabbi Moshe Perlmutter

When you’re a mashgiach in the field, you are an ambassador for the OU and for the Orthodox world.

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Rabbi Alexander Rosenberg, zt”l

A Jew once made a less than straightforward proposal to Rabbi Rosenberg from which he stood to derive substantial personal…

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Rabbi Nota Greenblatt, zt”l

I didn’t have too many experts in shechitah I could turn to at the time—Rav Nota was one of the…

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Rabbi Chaim Goldzweig, zt”l

“There’s no question that Rabbi Goldzweig was a pivotal player in the development of kashrut in America,” Rabbi Israel Paretzky,…

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