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Stories and guides about kosher certification, Jewish food and the makers behind our shop.
The Badatz of the Edah HaChareidis, widely regarded as among the strictest hechsherim, closes our series with a link back to Manchester.
How Israel’s Chief Rabbinate certifies kosher food, what mehadrin means, and why most supermarket products carry a second hechsher.
From one empty classroom in Baltimore to more than 3,100 certified locations, Star-K also gave the world’s kitchens the Sabbath mode.
Founded by a food chemist in 1935, the OK has grown from a laboratory bench in America to more than half a million certified products made in close to 100 countries.
Vienna has no single kashrut authority; here is how the IKG’s Rabbinate supervises kosher food and helps shoppers find products without a symbol.
The story of Germany’s Orthodox Rabbinical Conference and its kosher list, which grew to cover more than 3,500 products, from food to washing-up liquid.
How Amsterdam’s Ashkenazi and Sephardi rabbinates supervise kosher food together, and how the Dutch kept shechita legal.
Since 1892, Antwerp’s Machsike Hadass has appointed shochetim and supervised kosher shops, and after the war it rebuilt everything it had lost.
From a Napoleonic decree of 1808 to supervisors in Bordeaux wineries, here is how the Beth Din de Paris guarantees kosher food across the Île-de-France.
Kedassia, the kashrut arm of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, grew out of a dispute over who controls kosher meat and keeps a strict Charedi standard today.
