Update: NPGS says theirs was checked by whom they consider to be mumchim & expert in raisins as well, we are not yet convinced.
KASHRUS Alert: All Raisin bran cereals, including Post raisin Bran cereal's (even when it's on sale). The raisins are sundried raisins. All Raisins have an infestation problem especially the sun dried raisins.
Some stores are running sales on it, don't buy it.
Very few in kashrus are qualified in checking for infestation.
Don't trust the ones that think they know how to check.
NOTE: If they would use currants it would be a different story.
All domestic sundried & oven dried raisins are infested. Yellows may have less, nonetheless they do have. S. African have less, but aren't clean. Some claimed oven dried yet they were found to be infested, the reason being that they were first field dried (infested) then they finished drying them in an oven.
Post uses the regular raisins not the claimed "oven dried", which most raisin bran companies use "the regular raisins". Even the "oven dried" are first partially dried in the open field & are also infested.
Very few in kashrus are qualified in checking for infestation.
Don't trust the ones that think they know how to check.
NOTE: If they would use currants it would be a different story.
All domestic sundried & oven dried raisins are infested. Yellows may have less, nonetheless they do have. S. African have less, but aren't clean. Some claimed oven dried yet they were found to be infested, the reason being that they were first field dried (infested) then they finished drying them in an oven.
Post uses the regular raisins not the claimed "oven dried", which most raisin bran companies use "the regular raisins". Even the "oven dried" are first partially dried in the open field & are also infested.
56 comments:
Why would you show a photo of "kellogg's" brand when the issue is "Post" brand???
Your buddy the nirabator is in real trouble now. His KOSHER G'MACHT liver's have salmonella. Why..... Because he doesn't broil them enough according to halacha.
It's not sloppy reporting. R' Yudel is telling us to be madayek that Kellogg's has the problem and that's even if you can trust KVH for kashrus bichlal.
I read that Menashe Miller is once again in Israel on taxpayer's money, purportedly because R' Shwartzman was niftar? Shaichos? Is it my imagination, or he is there all the time, getting his picture taken with Gedolim? Seriously, why should we be paying for his trips, and it should be public record as to what he spends and where he spends it!
Wed Nov 09, 06:41:00 PM 2011
This sounds like that "GROISE Lamdon"
fin qveens - next to Mertopolitan Avenue.
you posted three times about Menashe Miller - prove it. put up or shut up! Definitely don't be Motzei shaim ra
You make choizek fun einer off "Mertopolitan" (what's that?), when you run one useless hashgocho after another, KVH included.
The joke would be on you if it wasn't so outrageous.
This comment was brought to you by the Queens Haggadah shel Pesach Publication Society.
If it is legal to collect section 8 &/or Food stamps etc. then it is OK for Miller to travel if its legal.
r' yudel,
why are you motzei la'az on kashrus agencies? you know there is NOTHING wrong with domestic sundried raisins!
....I know more than most....
The above is the motto of this site.
Anonymous said...
Your buddy the nirabator is in real trouble now. His KOSHER G'MACHT liver's have salmonella. Why..... Because he doesn't broil them enough according to halacha.
Wed Nov 09, 12:52:00 PM 2011
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Why hasn't anyone brought up this issue? Salmonella gets killed at 130 degrees. Liver is broiled at 160 degrees. The liver has salmonella, so it never hit 130. What do we do with our china, now that I made a hot chopped liver entre and served it??
It's also legal for R' Yudel to file under Freedom of Information to see if Miller flew first class.
When the NY Post filed for Congressman Charlie Rangel's travel itinerary it was major bizyonos. The fresser ordered everything off the airline's first class menu to take advantage. The most expensive entrees and wines and he hoarded every non-food item on the menu at taxpayer expense. The Wall St Journal picked up on the Post report and wondered what was pshat that he even ordered sun tan lotion. They said a sevoro that maybe it was to make sure his chicken cordon bleu did not get overcooked. It is an old but true galechter that shvartzas like using sun tan lotion lelo toeless thinking it will prevent them from becoming even more shvartz. The Wall St Journal brilliantly conveyed the point without actually saying it.
2:38 am, are you criticizing Rabbi GORNISH?
Guess who did the advertising plan for Post cereals?
Donald Trump and his tochter who has gerus through Hershel Schechter even though she never planned on keeping Shabbos or even kosher.
There was a tumult about one of the team members that was kept off of any visible promotions. He complained to Trump that he is being discriminated against because he is fat. Trump told him, yeah because if I was Post I would say you are not exactly the picture of health. To Donald's credit, he did fire the fat guy a little later when he discriminated against the modern orthodox team member from West Milford NJ when he couldn't report to work on Yom Kippur. Donald was furious that the fat zhlob did that.
Ribono Shel Olam -
The coments on this blog are like a bunch of old women talking while their sheitels are being washed at the beauty parlor.
Most of the comments show examples of Motzei Shem Rah. Lason Hara never had it so good.
MAybe this is a good reason to suut off this website!!
Pinchas, why are you saying lashon hora about veiber who sit around in beauty parlors ? That's a whole sug of Yidden
With the yellow ones, can you see the bugs to be able to remove them?
Please be advised that many boxes of thsi cereal were given to Mashgochim who are beki-im in checking for bugs, and who have found bugs on many occasions in other products - and after checking numerous boxes, NO INFESTATION AT ALL.
Where's that Queens Vaad guy who was busy misinterpreting the teshuva from Rav Elyashev about reporting molesters to the police?
Those with a non-Torah agenda at Agudah and Queens Vaad are reading into the teshuva that raglayim ledavar means something much more than what Rav Elyashev intended. One raayah to this is that they have never ever reported a single molester to the police. It's not surprising since they purposely set an impossible bar to reach which Rav Elyashev never did.
Rav Elyashev actually makes it quite easy. The Queens Vaad guy who usually acts like a noisy gragger on this blog is suddenly silent after Queens askan Tzvi Gluck went to Eretz Yisroel and was told by Rav Elyashev in front of witnesses to just report molesters to the police because they can do a good job determining if a crime was really committed.
Let me guess Queens Vaad ... Rav Elyashev is out of line if he poskens on molesters outside Israel? Molesters that you have an interest in covering up for?
I don't hear why factory dried raisins should get infested if they are put into production right away.
Was Paysach Krohn the mohel? Does he make a shinuy for Black Hebrew & Muslim circumcisions?
Did Schwartz go to the bris so he could shake Weiner's hand again?
Was Schonfeld there to give Schwartz a boost? "Rabbi Chaim Schwartz is here, everyone. He is Executive Drecktor of the Vaad Harabbonim of Queens. I just want to acknowledge him"
http://www.jewishjournal.com/nation/article/ex-congressman_anthony_weiner_becomes_a_dad_20111222/
Anthony Weiner, who resigned his Congress seat after lying about tweeting an illicit photo of himself to a 21-year-old supporter, has become a father.
The ex-New York lawmaker’s wife, Huma Abedin, gave birth to Jordan Zane Weiner on Wednesday, the New York Post reported.
Weiner, who is Jewish, in June acknowledged inappropriate Internet relationships with at least six women. The pregnancy of Abedin, a Saudi-born Muslim, became public during the scandal.
http://thepartialview.blogspot.com/2011/12/shabbos-chanukah-for-large-families.html
http://sfluxe.com/2011/12/20/just-in-time-for-christmas-kosher-chocolate-santas-sun-sentinel/
There is an international franchise of chocolate boutiques called Schakolad.
The owners are Jewish and encourage franchisees to get hashgocho.
Interesting considering the chain specializes in Kratzmach themes. Ober gelt is doch gelt.
http://www.schakolad.com/Holidays/Christmas/Chocolate_Box_with_Custom_Message_filled_with_Foiled_Chocolate_Ornaments./
Here is one of their selections engraved with Merry Kratzmach.
If you specifically want it to be kosher, you press the kosher button and it gives you a list of participating hashgochos.
Understand that wishing a Merry Kratzmach is avodah zarah mamash. The name of the chogger means Yoshke's mass. Mass is zecher l' Yoshke's blood which in their tiflus they say took over from the dam haPesach.
The hashgochos should be ashamed of themselves:
http://www.schakolad.com/KosherOptions__
ORB Florida
AKC Atlanta
Jason Miller (Conservative rabbi in Michigan)
HKA Houston (Rabbi Wender who was involved in the Tropper scandal)
I heard something last night about bugs on fresh grapes. What's the story?
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/short_takes/constitutional_crisis_young_israel
In a surprise move, the president & board chairman of the embattled National Council of Young Israel both announced their "resignations" Tuesday, and the organization’s executive vice president, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, received approval to take a 6 month sabbatical.
Some of those actions were quickly denounced as “unconstitutional” by Avi Goldberg, spokesman for a group of Young Israel leaders who have been complaining for more than a year about a lack of transparency in the organization.
National Council president, Steve (Shlomo) Mostofsky, said in a statement he would be "stepping down" at the end of the year to spend more time with his family & to place a renewed focus on his law practice. He has served as president since 2000.
The statement said pursuant to the organization’s constitution, first vice president Eli Dworetsky, a New York CPA whose family has multi-generational involvement with the Young Israel movement, would assume the presidency.
Rabbi Jonah Gewirtz, board chairman for the past 7 years, also announced his immediate "resignation". Sheldon Schreiner, past president of Young Israel of Plainview & the national group’s financial secretary, was appointed to "succeed" Rabbi Gewirtz.
In a statement, Goldberg pointed out that the Council’s constitution “requires elections to be held every 2 years, but none have taken place in 5 years. Mostofsky’s move to appoint successors circumvents governing rules & is yet another example of the board’s disregard for fundamental governance requirements.”
In light of that, Goldberg called upon all 120 Young Israel congregations to place their annual dues in escrow until there are “fair & open elections, the required financial audit is completed” and delegates are again able to vote.
A leader of the organization who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals said he was surprised when the press release referred to Dworetsky’s selection as being in accordance with the group’s constitution.
“You can’t cherry pick when you follow the constitution,” he said. “Once you decide not to hold elections, you throw the whole constitution in the air; you can’t trot it out when it suits your purpose.”
Rabbi Lerner, who asked for a sabbatical after 20 years as executive director, said he wanted to pursue “special projects solely for the betterment of the Jewish community & the State of Israel.”
Neither he, Rabbi Gewirtz or Mostofsky replied to phone calls & e-mails seeking comment.
It was announced that Rabbi Bini Maryles, senior director of branch services, would be given the additional position of associate executive director to handle day-to-day operations in Rabbi Lerner’s absence.
So those Young Israel Moderniks finally figured out what we've being doing for years. Appoint figureheads while you call all the shots from the background.
Mendel Epstein does it too at Iggud Haganovim.
just report molesters to the police because they can do a good job determining if a crime was really committed.
You mean REY said, just leave to the police and destroy the guy on a maybe, on a revenging raglayim. And you believe that! The trouble is YOU believe that but nobody else does.
Thu Dec 22, 03:13:00 PM 2011
SH! SH! SH!
Word is that Spotlight and his friends checked out the bris.
Mistama looking for BBQ donuts.
He must of been hungry or needed some for his kids.
SH! SH! SH!
Thu Dec 22, 03:53:00 PM 2011
The mumcha speaks again.
Tzorich livdok acharov.
Thu Dec 22, 06:18:00 PM 2011
Hurry up and get the 'derector' to 'chap' another position so that his "GOOD" friends from Metro Ave won't run out of blog material (instead of chewing over the alte tzoiah).
Here we go again.
He can't contain himself, so the hothead fires off 4 intemperate comments in a row in a span of 6 minutes.
Are those paranoid delusions that he really believes that every molester case is made up for "revenge" or is he in sync with his masters, the moderner at the Queens Vaad and the heimisher at Agudah, as part of the racket to protect their financial interests?
You can tape Rav Elyashev's teshuva on the window on 124th St in front of the silver menorah but he will keep on misinterpreting it. And he will deny betachlis hadenial that Rav Elyashev told Queens askan Tzvi Gluck bifnei eidim to let the police determine if there was a crime.
"Tzorich livdok acharov" and other remarks questioning people's yichus. "Apikoiros" and other blather to bashmutz people who know the truth about him. The shmutz coming out of his filthy mouth is the biggest raaya of all - on HIMSELF. Kol haposel ...
"chewing over the alte tzoiah"
Ah! Lashon nekiyah "mamash". What kind of a twisted and immature mind keeps spewing this filth out of his foul mouth? No less ainer vos monnt az er iz doch fun der chashuvei rabbonim un vos muz men gebben a sach kovod, koirim umishtachavim vos er iz der Horav Hagaoin HaDrecktor.
"A leader of the organization who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals said he was surprised"
Very typical and "Torahdik" of our "fine" community kashrus organizations to violate all kinds of issurim starting with Lo Sikom to silence any kind of free speech not in lockstep with the Reich.
Kashrus organizations known for pulverizing any dissenting voices in their ranks and often giving the 5th degree to anyone with just a minor suspicion that they may have leaked something to the outside:
The Orthodox Union
National Council of Young Israel / Star D
Vaad Harabbonim of Queens
Star K
The OK
Rabbi Weissmandel / Nitra Monsey
Some of these organizations also have paranoid and delusional tyrants at their helms who reach out with their choizek yad trying to crush anyone in the public who is or might be voicing uncomfortable truths about them.
"Spotlight and his friends checked out the bris."
Just an observation ...
Spotlight and his friends, when referring to Weiner's tinok from the Muslim shiksa (who Weiner is not related to lehalacha), called it a "circumcision".
But C.S. refers to it outright as a bris milah. Is that the policy of Paysach Krohn and the rest of the Queens Vaad? It's certainly good for business for more money making shnits with the Gompco clamp.
As a proud friend of Spotlight and anyone else who exposes phony and corrupt people disguised in rabbinical attire, I can say I was not at the circumcision ceremony but I assume they were not serving doughnuts, BBQed or not. Huma Abedin was born in Saudi Arabia but she is of Pakistani descent. Pakistanis are known for soaking all their food in putrid smelling curry. Curry has a nasty habit of getting into skin and clothes and it is very difficult to get rid of the stench. So if C.S. was walking around that day more shtinky than usual, smelling like he was sprayed by a skunk or something, you can bet where he was.
You say some oven dried are ok. Which are those?
The modern orthodox crowd is getting increasingly fed up with the corruption at Yong Israel. First there was all the funny money moving around that the NY State Attorney General came after them about. They were all in on it including Chaim Kaminetsky who owns "Pesach with the Chevra", considered the most shpitz getaway of all, but mostly with not serious hashgocho and one time at a resort that for the rest of the year is for gays. What a makom "kadosh" in the spirit of escaping tumas Mitzrayim! Kaminetsky by the way is a big (in more ways than one) macher at Young Israel of Hillcrest led by Queens Vaad co-President Rabbi Dr. Richard Weiss. There was also the nasty stuff that Young Israel did to the shul at 5th Ave & East 16th St. They even padlocked the roof access so that Rabbi Wohlgelerntner couldn't eat in the succah. All the above was reported in newspapers & court filings on the Internet.
It's not enough that the paranoid nut in chief reviews video at supermarkets to track suspected Queens Vaad critics. Now he wants to review traffic camera footage to keep an eye on the chochomim of Metropolitan Ave? He missed his calling in life. He should have been Drecktor of the Stasi Secret Police in East Germany. They had 30% of the population on the payroll to monitor "subversive" activities of the other two thirds.
What's pshat? First you said all factory oven dried are also infested. Then you change the nusach to most. When someone asked which ones are ok, you switch it back to all are no good.
The Queens Vaad hypocrite says:
"Tzorich livdok acharov"
There is a maysah brought by Chazal that a kohain once complained about his chelek that it was shaped like the tail of a lizard. They knew because he did not use lashon nekiyah, even though his chelek was takka shaped azoy that something was up. An investigation revealed he was not meyuchas as a kohain.
But the Queens Vaad hypocrite trying to silence critics of the corrupt hashgochos, berosham his own, has this to say:
"chewing over the alte tzoiah"
That is 100 times more unclean and disgusting than the imposter claiming kusherre yeechis.
What kind of childish and primitive mind would even picture that?
He wasn't able to convince the hashgocho delegates at the AKO convention to go along with his "brilliant" scheme to keep all kashrus scandals a secret, so he must really be getting desperate.
Let's see how far your name calling and other dirty tactics will get you.
Now the latest girsa
Shteit in the reisha of Yudelstake that "ALL" oven dried are infested. But that is probably unchanged wording from an old assumption.
Shteit in the saifa: "Some claimed oven dried yet they were found to be infested, the reason being that they were first field dried (infested) then they finished drying them in an oven."
Surely not all oven dried are first field dried. So which companies do the entire drying process in factory ovens?
A rov who is rosho verubo in kashrus told me he thinks the major cereal companies do mostly factory drying because it makes more sense from a business standpoint.
Fri Dec 23, 11:39:00 AM 2011
All other hashgachos "got protection"
through 'La KakaNostra" from qg Area.
Thus places like rosen....don't need hashgacha since they "take care" of the hungry leader and his kids.
Pinchas said...
Anther impersonator of Spotlight!
Spotlight has no friends. Thats why he's here all the time.
Ot. Ot. The Chaya will be out of business VERY soon. By his own admission.
... your name calling and ....
This is NOT name calling. These are FACTS.
UOJ refers to Pesach with the Chevra as Chevra ...
The first year, Dovid Goldwasser was the Rav hamachshir. What does he know about kashrus? They brought him because women like his speeches. Since then the hashgocho is Eliezer Eidlitz who gets his misguided kashrus sefer published because he is a personal friend of Feldheim.
Sat Dec 24, 10:56:00 PM 2011
"La KaKa"
More filth from the foul mouth of someone pretending to run a real kashrus agency.
If AKO ever lets him speak again, that's what they can expect.
Spotlight has plenty of friends, but ain hachi nami none of the corrupt ones that YOU associate with.
The only FACTS are the shady backgrounds of your GOOD pals. There is also more interesting discoveries picking apart the Queens Vaad tax return. There is a story behind more of the "grants"
"more money making shnits with the Gompco clamp"
One of the rebbeim from Torah Temimah, a so called yeshiva that violates bris milos of children in other ways was once late in arriving at a bris milah. Hot em gefregt: Nu? Der shnit is shoyn gemacht?"
And Kolko alein was once invited to a bris milah at the Regency bungalow colony. Upon arriving, he was spotted by one of his 100+ victims who started pummeling him with blows to the face. Kolko decided to skip out on the lox and cream cheese and ran.
Who is the "expert" of NPGS? Maybe Gavriel "Tu Bishvat special" Finkel?
Please note:
On the insistence of our 'holier then thou' Spotlight, Rosenblooms sells no olive oil, strawberries, raisins, corn, kellogs products or anything else that thou may think of consuming when not hungry.
Cereals known b'ikar for their raisins make sure they are extra plump. Ken zein the field dried are more plump than factory dried.
Are you saying that red currants & black currants are not infested? Stella D'Oro makes a cookie that has currants & colored cherry pieces instead of raisins. It's a seasonal winter item. It is pareve & very pleasing to the palate.
Can you clarify if the currants sold by Klein's are the ones you're referring to? Some reviewers on Amazon say they're actually Zante raisins?
http://www.amazon.com/Kleins-Naturals-Currants-Pack-6/product-reviews/B000IEFVX4/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
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