Tuesday, January 04, 2011

Brown "kraft" paper, is there a kashrus or Passover concern?

Brown "kraft" paper is commonly used by restaurants, caterers, food service to put hot & or greasy food directly on the paper. Many of the manufacturers may use "recycled" material from unknown sources.

Pesach raises additional concerns, starchs. There may be upto 5% starch in some of them. the source of the starch may be chometz, kitinious (legumes) or anything else.

37 comments:

Chaim Berlin = My Way or the Highway said...

http://daattorah.blogspot.com/2011/01/hersh-lawsuitcase-dismissed-with.html

The embarrassing, sorry saga of Michael Hersh reached a significant
milestone on November 9, 2010 when the judge dismissd the case against a number of the defendants i.e., Rafael & Elizabeth Cohen, Sara Kreisler and Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe. Not only is this ridiculous lawsuit in tatters but Hersh's lawyers quit and he is continuing this farce serving as his own lawyer. How long will it take for someone close to Rav Ahron Schechter, shlita - to take proper notice and stand up and tell Hersh the fight is over. That he is destroying his family - especially the chance of his daughters getting decent shiduchim. The case was dismissed with prejudice which means that the case was dismissed for good reason and the plaintiff is barred from bringing an action on the same claim.

Anonymous said...

Why don't the heimishe companies making white paper towels and napkins under hashgocho make this too?

Spotlight on the Queens Vaad said...

Dylan's Candy Bar chain is named for the owner Dylan Lauren, daughter of Ralph Lauren (Lipschutz) the owner of the trendy "Polo" clothing label. Although they are not really frum by any standard they belong to a Left Wing modern orthodox shul in Riverdale. Dylan's brother is nebich engaged to be married to the shiksa niece of George W. Bush.

How does the Queens Vaad come into this picture?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qX9vWqsoLE&feature=player_embedded

How does Joel Katz of VHQ certified Prestige Catering do events at Dylan's Candy Bar's flagship store on the Upper East Side when the place is gepakked mit every sort treif candy, cupcake and other type of matamim? Who cares if he brings in all his food from the outside when you are still surrounded by all the enticing treif for sale? This is the same caterer doing events at Madame Tussaud's wax museum that is full of pritzus.

Groiseh Pieous@Madame Tussaud's wax museum said...

The Chayah didn't get the deal he wanted from Prestige Caterers.
So he mixes in the VHQ, AND he sends you to "you-tube", for which no Rov or Rabbi would ever give you a heter to go to, even if you needed the internet for your 'parnosah" (like the "parnosah' of criticizing and bashmooting the whole jewish kashrut world based on his shtusim and havolim).
On top of that, the intro and the clip itself is as "pritzuz'dik as they come.
Then he has the chutzpah to call everyone else a hypocrite.
All 'L'shame Shamayim.
Yeh, what else is new?

Spotlight on the Queens Vaad said...

We avoid posting videos that display pritzus. The Dylan's clip when we viewed it was embedded on another site and there was nothing wrong with it. We have now discovered that when you play it directly from YouTube, the parent company Google could add a commercial at the beginning.

So now dem mit der groysa payos is spinning this that someone has sour grapes after unsuccessfully trying to chisel down Joel Katz on price? That's a good one. Since Schwartz by now has accused soooooooo many people of blogging against him, he needs to be very specific as to who he is (falsely) accusing.

But nice try attempting to paint any video as assur gomur. Your narrow-minded maniac compatriots Pinny Lipschutz and his shik yingle Yitzy Hisiger have already pulled that stunt on Matzav.com while they continue to deny that they run that website.

Anonymous said...

matzo baking factories also use this paper in matzo production

Groise GROISEH peious said...

Excuses mit noch excuses.
The facts have NOT been denied.
On the end of the day, Chayah bichlal b'haimoh.
The velt lacht fun deer ober by oons est men noch kosher.

Queens Vaad Baloney Monitor said...

Schwartz, stop changing the subject.

Would your own non-VHQ rov make a simcha in such places or use Joel Katz as a caterer anywhere else?

NO!

Your "raayos" you bring from fressers who don't give a darn about kashrus are as worthless as you and your Vaad.

sheker v'chozov said...

10:45:00 AM 2011

" NO!"

That a outright lie.

Many many Rabbonim & choshuveh people (key word people) use Prestige & other VHQ caterers. They don't chisel and postpone payment like some far-frumter chayahs do.
These Rabbonim and choshuveh people don't use caterers that tell you one thing and do another, as is the norm with 'inzereh heimisheh kishkeh caterers.

If somebody can't afford a real caterer, that is no reason to bad-mouth them with your famous and classic lies.

Anonymous said...

Leave poor Chaim Schwartz alone. There are reasons why he gets extra nervous when you bring up the topic of Prestige Catering but he's nervous about all the things that he's paid to cover up.

To paraphrase a former commander of the Guantanamo Bay Naval base, SCHWARTZ CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Dover sheker said...

BLOGGERS ARE KNOWN TO HANDLE THE TRUTH!?!

Spotlight on the Queens Vaad said...

Boy oh boy, vos Schwartz macht zich gut meshugeh!

The only sheker vechozov is what he denies about his own rov. It is well known that his own rov does not eat from VHQ. Schwartz halt zich a groiser yeshivisher knacker that can't daven in VHQ shuls because they're not heimish enough, meanwhile he does all the Queens Vaad's dirty work and previously for KVH Boston because it's a living.

A super yeshivisher maniac who has no problem with Reform rabbis on the Synagogue Council, feminists at ORA, sub-standard kashrus, pfeifing on the psak of Rav Elyashev to stop being mevazeh kivrei yesomim who have no mishpocho to defend them, pfeifing on Rav Schach's opinion of Shteinzaltz and his "Sanhedrin" and Talmud.

Anyone who questions HIM is the meshugenner and apikores! HA!

Some would call that a multiple personality disorder.

Anonymous said...

Chaimel, how's that non-Vhq approved supermarket you like to shop in even though it's against takonas Vhq?

d'blogger, d'shiegetz said...

It takes a un-named blogger, hiding behind some "osur-dikeh" computer with 'ver veis vos farah schmootz er hot dorten', to 'shelt ois alle heitigeh gedoilim' (except if they say something that he likes).

It takes a un-named blogger, hiding behind some "osur-dikeh" computer with 'ver veis vos farah schmootz er hot dorten', to sit all day and surf the 'treifanah' net to find some 'iffy' issue and blame it all, together with all his other problems on the VHQ.

It takes a un-named blogger, hiding behind some "osur-dikeh" computer with 'ver veis vos farah schmootz er hot dorten', to claim that today's gedolim are mislead and fooled, and that 'der blogger, der sheigatz' knows everything better then our gedolim of today.

It takes a un-named blogger, hiding behind some "osur-dikeh" computer with 'ver veis vos farah schmootz er hot dorten', to decide who are the Rabbonim 'fun ver veis velcheh shichten' that he follows and quotes, but only if they first agree with his agenda.

It takes a un-named blogger, hiding behind some "osur-dikeh" computer with 'ver veis vos farah schmootz er hot dorten', to have the 'kovod' of being named "APIKORES of the year" by his own admission and by his own un-ethical logic that he uses to populate "Yudelstake".

The rest is self understood.

...and now for the comeback...stay tuned...

Anonymous said...

Apparently no one informed Chaim Schwartz (who wrote the comment at 5:12 pm) that his gadol hador rosh Agudas Yisroel der Novominsker Rebbe was chozer recently from saying the internet is assur gomur. It took the Novominsker years of insisting to asser it bechol oyfan until he realized that R' Elya Svei was right 15 years ago when he didn't want to push azoy veit because kimat no one (including Chaim Schwartz) will listen anyway.

The above is only true when Schwartz is draying zich on Metropolitan Ave where he is mister yeshivishkeit pulling the wool over everyone's eyes, not when he is running around with faygella politicians or doing anything other shmutzike things at the behest of his secret gedolim Maran Joel Schonfeld and Maran Abraham Halbfinger.

When R' Berel Soloveitchik hot amol gezogt that Agudah baal habatim and photographers machen photo op gedolim, no one imagined that there are nistorim like above two gedolim who are begeder Lamed Vovniks that no one except Schwartz knows their gadlus!

Flatbush said...

I know who Schwartz is referring to as the "chiseler" by the Queens caterer. I hadn't heard anything to that effect and I cannot guarantee that he didn't do any chiseling but even if he did, the Queens Vaad were not exactly angels here either. Schwartz had already tried to block adding a 2nd hashgocho and when he was finally forced to capitulate by a powerful third party, it is suspicious what story was given to the baal simcha and how much he would have to pay the caterer to oblige.

The facts remain that Joel Katz is indeed catering in places not becoming of a kosher caterer and the rabbonim certifying him. Schwartz should deal with the facts instead of writing publicly that someone who ruffled his feathers is cheap.

http://www.prestigecaterers.com/manhattan.htm

Dylan's Candy Bar
1011 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum
234 West 42nd Street
(Between 7th & 8th Aves.)
New York, NY 10011

Anonymous said...

08:46:00 PM 2011

Your comment was brilliant!

Talmidav shel Esav said...

Wed Jan 05, 05:12:00 PM 2011

Chaim Schwartz can't let a day go by without calling someone an apikores.

That's his only "answer" every time someone finds a kashrus problem or other skandal at the hands of the Queens Vaad.

Don't be fooled by his phony eidelkeit that he displays for the heimishe non-Vaad rabbonim he tries to be mechanef, dem vos iz kulo Admoni coming to them with the equivalent of how to take maaser from zaltz.

The Kotzker said that Esav had groise roite payos and gave over his Toyros to chassidim.

heimisheh kishkeh caterer said...

Who is calling people apikoires when Chazal say that Eisav was koifer baikkur?

Anonymous said...

dem vos iz kulo Admoni

For the record, King David was also
Admoni. So the "Admoni" is taken out of context as is 'pasik -l'me sheomroy' (the Apikores himself).

Chushim ben Don said...

It's not just red hair we are referring to but also acting under the influence of Saro shel Esav, so kulo Admoni at the Queens Vaad should please leave Dovid Hamelech a"h out of this.

Now go back to your tithing salt act on Metropolitan Ave and enjoy it while you can because you won't be getting away with it forever. You can only continue to fool most of the people for so long.

Anonymous said...

Ayein Tosafos Yuma that Saro shel Eisav has eyes all over his body. Sounds like the paranoid ones at Queens Vaad who are always trying to figure out what everyone's next move is and who knows what about them. The Kadmonim say he draws his koyach from the red planet, that his gantze mahus is red. Eisav loses his temper easy and turns red, much like all the intemperate comments posted here by "you know who" at Queens Vaad.

Anonymous said...

B"H the Apikores is leaving Dovid Hamelech out of it so that us normal, believing and religious, people can continue to identify with Malchus Bais Dovid and await his return via Moshiach.
Unfortunately, the Hiding Apikores has no shaichus to such aspirations since his only goal is to bad-mouth Gedolim, Rabonim, and any authority of any sort that does not "dance to his tune".
He keeps on discovering and inventing Reshonim, Medroshim, Mayselach and all such "eye-catching" phrases that impresses no one except himself and his ego (if he still has some).

The more he blogs, the more he reveals himself and his motives.

So, just sit here and read more of his non-sense and enjoy the drama-entertainment that he provides free of charge.

Feivish said...

Chaim Schwartz's trash comment at 1:18 is typical. Call your critic a heretic, insinuate that they make up mareh mekomos and keep feeding into your absurd self fantasy that you are the a leader of bnei Torah when you act more like talmidav shel Aisav as some sharp observers have pointed to, or more specifically Amalek shel Aisav. As the Baal Hatanya wrote in Torah Or, the midah of Amalek is 'am malak' to separate his head from his body and live in a fantasy world so that he can live with himself while he does kol davar ra.

Anonymous said...

What's anon's problem? All the rabbonim that I have seen "badmouthed" here are the ones that already have a case against them from gedolim.

Anonymous said...

Fri Jan 07, 04:26:00 PM 2011
& Fri Jan 07, 04:26:00 PM 2011
are one & the same.

Now the playbill goes from one comedy "Avodah Zarah part I" (idol skit) to
'Avodah Zarah part II' ( Lubavitch skit).

Stay tuned for more comedy.

Anonymous said...

It's just like narrow minded Chaim Schwartz to mock someone saying over from the Baal Hatanya. He is not aware in his am haaratzus that gedolei roshei yeshiva among the Litvishe learn the Baal Hatanya's kesovim and are not embarrassed to say over from him. Poskim also look at Shulchan Aruch Harav even though they don't posken like him.

Anonymous said...

Please! Poskim don't waste their time to look into seforim that they know up front they won't posken like.

"veiter mit deine shtusim".

Queens Vaad Kindergarten said...

More like veiter mit Schwartz's am haaratzus. He obviously knows even less about psak than he does about kashrus. While I can't provide a videotape of what every posek does in his private study, various halacha seforim offer proof of this where they show all the sources in the footnotes. Maybe Schwartz should develop a rapport with poskim instead of being magiah yomam velaylah with his usual blather on the blogs to cover up whenever the Queens Vaad is exposed.

Schwartz's ignorant outburst reminds me of a mayseh at a Sefardishe kollel where a similar type am haaretz blurted out in a shiur that he is not interested in hearing the opinion of the Chazon Ish "because we don't posken like the Ashkenaz". He was severely rebuked by the rosh kollel who said such an attitude runs contrary to what learning Torah is all about.

Kew Gardens said...

Vos darft Schwartz a rapport mit poskim? Er halt zich shoin a groise maggid shiur that the Agudah has the chutzpah to have not yet called to give the keynote address at the convention.

new posek in town said...

Poskim look and research all avenues to reach the right sevarah or the right chidush. they take and learn from everyone. However, poskim (vs. book publishers) do not waste time to show that they researched seforim that they know
AHEAD OF THE RESEARCH that they won't accept what that sefer or posek says.
So go back and start from the gemarah, go to reshonim, then to acharonim, then to poskim, then if you have any time left youcan come back and blog more of your non-sense.

Chossid of C.S. said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/business/media/10tv.html

"The blending of television and the Internet is inevitable."

Even though the gedoilim assered both television and internet, Rabbeinu Chaim Schwartz will be muchrach to buy a television so he can continue to follow what all you meshugoyim and apikorsim are exposing on the Queens Vaad.

Queens Vaad Kindergarten said...

Schwartz's comment at 12:08 pm is purposely deceptive.

Now that he was forced to coming around to agreeing that poskim look at Shulchan Aruch Harav he is pretending that's what he was really saying the whole time. Now he comes up with this new twist that the mechabrim of sifrei halacha did not write the mareh mekomos, but that this was done by the publishers. You can tell from various seforim that there are comments mixed in with the mareh mekomos so this is absolutely not true. Just like Schwartz denies every kashrus scandal, he applies his falshkeiten everywhere else.

Anonymous said...

01:55:00 PM 2011

Can you explain what your saying!

Spotlight on the Queens Vaad said...

2:29 pm is Schwartz again putting on an act. He can only wish that no one sees right through his lies and immature little games.

Anonymous said...

So your trying to say that Schwartz is a baby? Is that correct?

Anonymous said...

Considering all his silly comments especially when impersonating his opponents, it goes without saying that C.S. acts like a baby.