Thursday, November 29, 2012

(Economic times) CRC- Hisachdus oil at "OU" prices

About time: CRC- Hisachdus oil at "OU" prices. That's right, you read it right.

Purchase an "OU" oil, Tranfer it into a bottle that you write on the label CRC-Hisachdus, and lo & behold you have it at OU prices. Don't forget to put a few cents into a tzedoka box, to support the poor.

19 comments:

The Anti Itzu said...

It has been reported on Nuchem Rosenberg's hotline, amongst the pesach products from hisachdus with a chometz question one of which is the pesach oil. Der groise Chuchem Itzu Glick.

The Price is Right said...

Kfar Tikva in Kiryat Tivon, Israel, is a secular kibbutz with 200 residents that are mentally disabled. There are kosher companies setting up shop there to take advantage of the cheap labor the residents have to offer.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/59256/

A kosher winery under OK & Badatz Beit Yosef is using these workers. The head of OK Israel, Rabbi Aharon Haskel, poskened there is no problem to use mechalalei Shabbos who are mentally disabled for wine because they are not bar daas for this purpose.

Badatz BY tells this newspaper that they rubberstamp any decision made by the OK.

After meeting with the residents however Rabbi Haskel assered these particular workers since he found they have more daas than the average "special" people. The kibbutz's website does in fact note that they take courses accredited by a university.

Does this make for a scandal as far as Paskesz is concerned? Paskesz imports Neronim / Shraga Candle products that are also made at the kibbutz. Paskesz packaging states "shomer shabbos plant".

http://www.shiluv-bodymind.co.il/home/artdetails.aspx?mCatID=59301&artID=9472

But this kibbutz has all kinds of chilul Shabbos going on, including classes in photography.

Are the Paskesz imported neros really free from chilul Shabbos as advertised?

Sticky Stickers said...

Rav Yudel You Bring Back Nostolgic Memories of Walking Down the Streets of Wilimsburgh and Boro Parky when Suddenly a Truck would Pull up and A Heimeshe Yingerman would come out with a Big Roll of stickers from one of The Local Heimeshe Chasideshe Hashgochos and Slap Them On to ALL the ou Products coming off the Truck Pringles, Twizlerz, Ricola

Anonymous said...

nothing new under the sun my mother walked into itzkowitz's in williamsburg in the 40s as he was repackaging domino sugar for pesach

Anonymous said...

Paskesz must be free of chilul shabbos like their gummy candy under Westheim is free of treif beef gelatin. And like Paskesz's mechuten Stefansky has canned Dagim salmon that is free of worms.

Eetzkoveetch said...

Was Itzkowitz in Willy the father of the manufacturer Itzkowitz that closed down about 20 years ago because the owner went to jail for fraud?

Right before that there was a scandal with chassidish owned grocery stores in Flatbush selling major brand baby food without OU that was made on the same production line as treif meat. These chassidishe think the Litvishe are shkotzkim who if they eat OU, any treif is good enough for them too. Some rabbonim were arguing with one of these jerks because he refused to remove the treif from the shelf. One of his arguments is that he sells it to goyim. It got heated & they raised their voices at him that he knows frumma baal habustas are buying it. Hut em ge'entfert "nein, dee Yidden koyfen Eetzkoveetch"

Rubashkin fresser said...

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/yw/agri-new-hechsher.jpg

Why is the Veitzener's a zun out of the picture?

The Anti Itzu said...

I heard the same thing on Nuchem Rosenberg's hotline of his childhood memories working for a guy who would pack domino sugar labeled kosher lepesach while the children paid to pack the sugar ate cookies whilst packing

Yeshivishe shechita? said...

http://matzav.com/wellington-kansas-hosts-first-ever-shabbos-minyan

The new rav hamachshir at Agristar was at the Rosenblatt facility in Wellington, Kansas, a few years ago. Which hashgocho was he working for?

London said...

The rabbonei London approached Dayan Padwa last week & asked him to remove a troublemaker from Kedassia.

http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21519732&postID=2600725531105205014&isPopup=true

Dayan Padwa resisted with the excuse that he does not want to hurt the mishpocho of the troublemaker. The rabbonim then wrote a letter to R' Chaim Kanievsky to ask him what to do. YWN posted both the shayla & RCK's teshuva that if Kedassia is not cooperating he is even advising going to the police to protect the oylam.

Anonymous said...

For many years in monsey chassidisha miapuchas only ate from Feket's private shecitas.

Anonymous said...

Those Paskesz candles say "kosher" on the package but does not identify who is certifying

Yeshivishe shechita? said...

http://www.csdecisions.com/2012/11/08/ethnic-foods-push-roller-grill-sales/

More than a year in the planning, 7-Eleven debuted its first-ever kosher grill this August at a store in the heavily Orthodox Jewish enclave of Monsey, N.Y. The good fortune of franchisees and brothers Anthony and Michael Mendicino is twofold: the concentration of consumers with very specific dietary requirements and the relative lack of kosher restaurants and other prepared-food options.

The Mendicinos held a Customer Appreciation Day offering free samples of their kosher grill offerings: beef frankfurters, hot and spicy beef links and Polish sausages, as well as knishes and kosher condiments—along with kosher Slurpee drinks for sale, face-painters, music and clowns.

As part of the store’s remodel last year, 7-Eleven added a second grill, which lit a light bulb over the brothers’ heads. Since eight out of 10 of their customers keep kosher, why not meet their needs?

The store had long sold kosher pre-wrapped sandwiches, milk, baked goods and frozen meals, but nothing hot and ready to eat. They hired a pair of Orthodox Jewish chefs and ordered the food product from kosher purveyors.

“This is something our guests have wanted for years,” Michael Mendicino said. “‘When will we have hot dogs too?’ they kept asking. We have some packaged kosher sandwiches and snacks, and we tried a kosher hot dog vending machine once. That worked for a while, but when the company servicing the machine was sold, it became a problem. Now the community is really buzzing about the kosher grill.”

Rabbinic oversight of kosher food standards—a requirement for the items—was assigned to Rabbi Zushe Yosef Blech. “We thought it would do very well and the response from the community has been phenomenal,” Mendicino said. “Sales have been through the roof.”

Indeed, the store quickly sold 400 hot dogs in a single day, and the kosher dogs have outsold the standard ones, by a 10-to-1 margin. Blech said the kosher items have had enormous crossover appeal to non-Jewish customers because of their perceived healthier ingredients.

The grill items are available for both lunch and dinner. An overhead sign reads KOSHER HEAVEN AT 7-ELEVEN and informs customers about the kosher supervision.

The Mendicinos reached out to 7-Eleven zone merchandiser Robin Murphy about the need to separate the kosher and regular grill. “I visited their store multiple times and saw residential developments being constructed where the primary residents were of the Hasidic Jewish faith,” Murphy said. “In addition, a new synagogue and yeshiva were being built 2 blocks from the store, and a girls’ school was nearby as well.”

Murphy knew the hurdles that had to be cleared. “We needed to have a ‘glatt’ kosher product, which is the designation necessary to gain rabbinical supervision,” she noted. “It took us several months to find the right vendor and products.”

Globex Kosher Food Inc. of Brooklyn created exclusive recipes for the Monsey store, while most of the condiments are being sourced by Heinz. Aside from the dedicated grill and condiment bar, a separate storage area for the kosher products has been designated.

Yechee said...

Did Rav Fekete kasher or replace the machinery used to make the deli products during the days of Sholom Rubashkin?

Anonymous said...

Times of Israel newspaper is reporting that Chaim Halpern's plan was to lay low for a few months & then rejoin Kedassia so the other batei din in London are joining forces to force him out of the rabbonus including from the shul where he owns the building.

Anonymous said...

The question is why was Rabbi Meisels thrown out

Anonymous said...

Personal issues is what Rabbi M said

Anonymous said...

I am sure it has been kashered for pesach many times since the runashkins

Shmeel said...

Check this out:

http://www.vosizneias.com/88181/2011/07/27/new-york-dunkin-donuts-trades-for-the-first-time-gets-warm-response-from-new-investors/