Centennial Spotlight: Rabbi Yacov Halevi Lipschutz
Reb Yacov was a bona fide talmid chacham and an expert in the laws of kashrus.
Centennial Spotlight: Rabbi Berel Wein
‘There was no uniformity and there were many certifications that were questionable. The challenge was to set the standard.’ Which the OU ultimately did.
KosherKopy: Unscrambling the Kashrut of Eggs
Crash course on the kashrut of eggs
When Science Meets Kashrut: How one woman blazed a trail in OU Kosher
At a bar mitzvah in Englewood, New Jersey, in the mid-1980s, Rabbi Menachem Genack, early in his career as rabbinic administrator of OU Kosher, was introduced to Dr. Judith Leff, a biochemist who was then working as a researcher in molecular biology at the Albert Einstein Medical College of Medicine in the Bronx. The rabbi […]