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	Hechsher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hechsher (הכשר Hebrew: "kosher approval", plural: hechsherim) is the formal granting of certification, usually by an authorized rabbi, that a product is certified as kosher (meaning "fit" [for consumption].) A hechsher is usually conveyed to the public by a special marking on products (generally foods) certifying that the item is certified as kosher.
		In halakha ("Jewish law"), the kashrut ("dietary laws") specify food items that may be eaten and others that are prohibited as derived from the commandments of the Torah.
		The best known hechsher symbol in the world is the "OU" symbol of the Orthodox Union based in New York City in the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hechsher (453 words)

	Hechsher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A hechsher (he: הכשר) (plural: hechsherim) is a marking on products (generally foods) certifying that the item is kosher.
		In halakha (Jewish law), the kashrut, or dietary laws, specify food items that may be eaten and others that are prohibited.
		These foods are called pareve and may carry this term near the hechsher.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Hechsher (236 words)

	Chelm.org's Kashrut Class - Hechshers
		It should be noted that many Rabbis have started Vaads, and their standard may not be yours (a good example recently seen on the shelfs, kosher for Pesah candy with corn syrup).
		Another result of the large cost of hechshers is that there are products out there that are inspected but do not carry a hechsher.
		Hechshers without an accompanying mark are usually pareve (except where obvious like ice cream).
	www.chelm.org /jewish/kashrut/l3.hechshers.html (818 words)

	Hechsherot - The Four Questions
		The most common places you will find a hechsher are 1) on the front of the package below the logo, 2) on one of the bottom front corners, 3) near the list of ingredients or 4) on the top (lid) of the package.
		The OU symbol is the most well-known and widely-used hechsher in the world.
		The Star-K hechsher is also very prevalent, and the Star-K’s web site is also a great repository of kashrut information, including up-to-date lists of kosher alcohol, beverages, medicines, and other items.
	fourquestions.us /judaism/kashrut/hechsher.html (1265 words)

	OK Kosher Certification — Kosher Supervision
		When an organization or individual puts a hechsher on a product they attest to the fact that the contents and manufacturing meet their standards of kashrut.
		Looking for the hechsher and for the statement of whether a product is dairy, meat or pareve, or for questionable ingredients listed on the label, are necessary procedures.
		A hechsher is therefore necessary on fruit from Israel.
	www.okkosher.com /Content.asp?ID=116 (3639 words)

	cRc - Dried Fruits
		Methyl bromide, a chemical typically from the U.S., U.K., and Israel, is employed as a fumigating agent to protect the fruit from mites and insect infestation.
		hechsher because they can be sprayed with oil and because they are usually sweetened with sugar or juice concentrate (possibly with white grape juice).
		hechsher due to juices and flavors that are added to compensate for the sourness.
	www.crcweb.org /kosher/consumer/articles/F-dryfruit.html (2136 words)

	At OUKosher - Kashrus FAQ - OU.ORG
		A. If by "products that do not need a hechsher" you mean items that have no connection to food, such as bicycles, they don't certify such products.
		For some agencies, the hechsher means merely that the vegetables have no additives that pose kosher concerns although the product itself my still require checking.
		For others, such as the OU, the hechsher means that the product has been established to be acceptable, and should require no checking on the part of the consumer.
	www.ou.org /shabbat/5766/kosher/bereshit66.htm (1426 words)

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		The hechshers are trademarked so that the Rabbinic boards who supervise the food can control which product labels they may be printed upon.
		The three largest hechshers in the United States are O-U (a U in a circle), O-K (a K in a circle) and Kaf-K (a K inside a Hebrew letter Kaf, which looks a bit like a backward C).
		The O-U hechsher tends to leave off the indicator for Parve unless it is an item which one would not expect to be parve (like a parve coffee creamer).
	www.nomilk.com /parve.txt (1036 words)

	Kashrut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Store-bought foods can be identified as kosher by the presence of a hechsher (plural hechsherim), a graphical symbol that indicates that the food has been certified as kosher by a rabbinical authority.
		For various reasons, such as changes in manufacturing processes, products known to be kosher on one day might not be kosher tomorrow; a change in lubricating oil to one containing tallow, for instance.
		Many vegetarian restaurants and producers of vegetarian foods do acquire a hechsher, certifying that a Rabbinical organization has approved of them as Kosher.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Kashrut (4055 words)

	Recommended Hechshers
		The fact that a hechsher does not appear here does not necessarily indicate that the given product is not kosher; it simply indicates that I cannot recommend it.
		However, please note that with regard to Pesach the JSOR hechsher is good for Sephardic Jews only.
		Raw nuts are acceptable without a hechsher with the exception of raw cashews.
	rabbi.bendory.com /docs/hechshers.php (739 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 8 Number 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The basis for the ruling that the Rabanut may remove a hechsher ONLY where issues of kashrut were raised vis' a vis' the FOOD, was a case in Jerusalem, where the Rabanut threatened to remove its hechsher for two reasons; places where belly dancers occasionaly preformed, places that held New-Years eve parties.
		The court ruled that the Rabanut may remove their hechsher ONLY when there were hallachic violations in the preparation of the food.
		The hechsher (he calls it the Piece of paper) does not tell people that the people running the place are Tzadikim (rightuous), rather that the FOOD was properly prepared.
	www.importersparadise.com /mj_ht_arch/v8/mj_v8i06.html (2002 words)

	Hechshers
		In fact, this is why every kosher certifying authority has a trademarked symbol for its hechsher and why these trademarks are vigorously defended.
		The OU hechsher is respected in part because the OU vigorously prosecutes anyone who uses their symbol without authorization.
		For better and for worse (in my opinion for the better, but in this case for the worse), there are no laws regarding the establishment of religion in the United States, so any "rabbi" who wants to can give a "kosher" certification.
	rabbi.bendory.com /docs/kashrus/hechshers1.php (744 words)

	Yeshivat Ohr Yerushalayim
		In homeopathic remedies, the source ingredient is almost always "batel" in the dilutant (the ingredient used to dilute the source ingredient).
		However, the most common dilutants are lactose and alcohol, both of which pose Kashrus concerns and require a hechsher.
		Generally speaking, the flavored ones need a hechsher because you can never tell what is used to flavor them.
	www.ohryerushalayim.org.il /halacha_topic.php?id=62 (874 words)

	Kashrus Standards Press Release 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In addition, it is equally obvious, in my humble opinion, that, as a result of this injunction, any Shochet or Bodek participating in such a program has lost his assumptive reliability for Kashrus, and one may not eat from his Shchitah nor rely on him in any matter relating to Kashrus whatsoever.
		I shake and tremble to hear that one Rov has taken it upon himself to grant a Hechsher to meat processors whose owners are not Jewish and who are also purveyors of non-Kosher meat, a situation in which it is far too easy to substitute non-Kosher meat for Kosher.
		Of critical importance in their efforts was the prohibition against giving a Hechsher to butcher shops and meat processors that are engaged in the production and processing of both Kosher and non-Kosher products, a ruling that has been repeatedly reinforced and reconfirmed by ensuring generations of G’dolim.
	www.kashrusstandards.com /pr03.htm (1066 words)

	Hechshers - food certification according to Jewish religious law
		Hechsher and kosher symbol are equivalent in meaning
		This logo,found on the packaging of The Old City Cafe Breakfast Burrito, is accompanied by the hechshers of OK Kosher, Rabbi M. Weissmandl - Nitra-Monsey,, and United Mehadrin Kosher.
		Tnuva Foods' logo which may be accompanied by their hechsher and the OU hechsher.
	www.hechshers.info /logos (180 words)

	INSITES OF THE DAY - Kerisus, Daf 13
		Since it is part of her, it has an inherent Tum'ah, and one who drinks it is drinking something that is Tamei, and thus he becomes Tamei.
		Hechsher is necessary only when something must first attain the status of "food" ("Ochel") in order to become Tamei.
		However, since the milk of a Nidah is Metamei without Hechsher because of the Gezeiras ha'Kasuv of Ma'ayan, the Rabanan decreed that the milk of a Maga Tamei Mes is also Metamei without Hechsher, in order to prevent confusing the two.
	dafyomi.shemayisrael.co.il /kerisus/insites/kr-dt-13.htm (1715 words)

	Vitamins and Medicine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Even if the label says that the product is all natural, it still requires a hechsher, since natural products (of animal origin, for example) are often not kosher.
		A pregnant woman who is having difficulties may swallow a multi-vitamin without a hechsher.
		A person suffering from migraine headaches or mild depression may swallow tablets and capsules without a hechsher.
	www.yoy.org.il /article.php?id=62 (326 words)

	Paper towels on Pesach - Hashkafah.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He told them that it doesn't need a hechsher but they told him that they were told that in order to get into the NY market it needs a hechsher.
		One of the reasons why he didn't just do the hechsher was because of what would happen when one of his congregants would go to the market and see all the sink scrubbers without a hechsher.
		I spoke to someone in the Kashrus business why dishwashing soap has a hechsher, he told me that the zohar says to attain a higher level of spirituality one should have as little treif ingredients in his house as possible, even if it's not food.
	www.hashkafah.com /index.php?showtopic=3180 (3658 words)

	Kashrut.Org :: Q & A Board :: View Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The jelly beans are made by the jelly belly candy company which is under the kashrus supervision of the KO out of philidalphia.
		the reply was that the person doesn't know if the hechsher is good but he heard of the rabbi and he told the following story.
		while that is seemingly impossible to do as being a kohen is a kedusha from g-d i want to know if the hechsher that this rabbi gives has any reliability or has it lost it all cuz of that story.
	www.kashrut.org /forum/viewpost.asp?mid=8045 (323 words)

	Vaad Hakashrus and the CHK - Daas Hakohol Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He attempted to get the Bdatz hechsher but claims that Brook kept delaying, amidst charges that Brook is a part owner in the Kingston Pizza Shop and did not want the competition.
		Eventually, after the Vaad HaKohol and Levy Yitzchok Shapiro put pressure on Brook, the hechsher was given, but Motchkin was always complaining about poor treatment, and that Brook looked for ways to harass him by not giving him a supply of cheese and other products.
		Before Boulevard Café opened they considered the B’datz hechsher but decided to take the O.K. hechsher instead because they were more professional to deal with and allowed certain products they considered important for their business.
	www.vaadhakahal.com /forumdisplay.php?f=13 (870 words)

	Hechsher: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hechsher (הכשר Hebrew (The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel)
		It is usually Orthodox[for more facts and a summary of this subject, click this link] rabbis who assume the jobs of mashgichim (singular: mashgiach) meaning they "supervise" the products and processes that manufacture kosher food to ensure that all ingredients are kosher (meaning: "fit" [for consumption]) and meet the required standards of the original hechsher.
		The best known hechsher symbo; in the world is the "OU" symbol of the Orthodox Union (The union of orthodox jewish congregations of america (uojca), more popularly known as the orthodox union,...)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/hechsher (1204 words)

	COR — Kashruth Council of Canada, kosher Toronto, kosher food certification
		I was told by a company that was taken off the kosher list that this happened because the rabbis were too busy to come to bless the company.
		I was told that I could purchase sliced fish from York Fish Store or Fortinos as long as I see the signs of a kosher fish having scales and fins and I rinse the fish when I get home.
		The ganoid and placoid scales cannot be removed without tearing the skin and a fish with this variety of scales would not be kosher.
	www.cor.ca /en/15 (1350 words)

	posek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is very clear from the Shulchan Oruch (Yoreh De'ah Siman 103 and 107) that something that is not edible cannot be considered unkosher, and may be used, even if it has non-Kosher ingredients.
		This is especially true since it isn't consumed orally in any way (although some may argue that dishtowels washed with laundry detergent and not rinsed properly might present a problem, this is really no problem since, as above, the detergent is inedible).
		Regarding dish detergent, there are certain kinds that might be considered edible, according to some opinions, and it is therefore a good idea to buy with a Hechsher.
	www.jemsem.org /posek/5763-1teves.htm (273 words)

	REVIEW ANSWERS - Chulin, Daf 128
		And to explain the basis of their Machlokes, he cites a Beraisa, where Rebbi Akiva rules that Cheilev of a Shechutah of the villagers (who are Nochrim) does not require Hechsher, because it already became Muchshar with the Shechitah.
		The Tana mentions villagers here - because either due to the fact that they are farmers and more meat is available to them, or because they are poor (and it is the wealthy who tend to eat Cheilev) - the Cheilev of their animals requires Machshavah to give it the status of food.
		The difference between human food and animal food regarding Hechsher Tum'ah is that - whereas the former requires Hechsher for Kabalas Tum'ah, the latter does not.
	dafyomi.shemayisrael.co.il /chulin/reviewa/ch-ra-128.htm (2064 words)

	CAN IT BE KOSHER?
		When kosher certifying a vegetable cannery, an integral part of the hechsher is to make sure that the kosher status of the processing equipment does not become compromised.
		There would be no way of knowing whether the corn or string beans are made in a totally kosher facility or in a plant that produces both kosher and non kosher on the same equipment.
		Here again the hechsher on the can gives the consumers the ability and confidence to separate the grey into fl and white.
	www.kashrut.com /articles/canart (2131 words)

	Kashrut.Org :: Q & A Board :: View Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It has a hechsher from a major certifier prominently displayed on the label.
		Something should be done because it makes kashrut the object of ridicule when people (especially non-observant jews) see certifications on things that obviously don't require it.
		I do understand that having a hechsher helps some people select products more confidently even though they could just as well rely on ingredients and some basic knowledge (which frankly is all I have!).
	www.kashrut.org /forum/viewpost.asp?mid=8592 (191 words)

	Mail-Jewish Volume 35 Number 62 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ira L. Jacobson mailto:laser@ieee.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kennethgmiller@juno.com (Akiva Miller) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:26:42 -0400 Subject: Re: Hechsher on an apple My guess is that the certification refers to the preservatives and waxes which are often sprayed on fresh fruit.
		According to http://www.kosher.co.il/orgs/australia.htm, that hechsher is from Rabbi Moshe Gutnick, NSW Kashrut Authority Inc, POB 206, Bondi NSW 2026 Australia; Phone 613-369-4286.
		Perhaps in N.Z. a hechsher is required on fruit due to the common use of non kosher coatings?
	www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v35/mj_v35i62.html (1749 words)

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