By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld

That shiny coating that can be found on anything from jellybeans to fruit to hard-wood flooring. What is it made of? Is it kosher?
Let’s watch and listen in to a fascinating (and slightly discomforting) discussion about shellac, otherwise known as confectioners glaze, with Rabbi Sholem Fishbane, Kashrus Administrator at the Chicago Rabbinical Council and Executive Director of AKO.
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Lab-Grown vs. Nature: Today’s topic is very futuristic. Cultured meat, clean meat, lab-grown meat… Let’s get a behind-the-scenes peek at this topic which is still in the theoretical stages. Rabbi Mordechai Stareshefsky is a Rabbinic Coordinator at the OU.
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Everyone loves to know what goes on behind the scenes. Today we take a tour of a typical factory with Rabbi Yitzchak Hanoka, Senior Rabbinate Coordinator with the OK. We’ll find out all the systems in place to ensure kashrus at the highest level.
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By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld

In Bereishis (2:15) the posuk tells us that Hashem commanded Adam not to eat from the Eitz Hadaas. The gemara in Sanhedrin (57b) learns from this posuk that goyim have a chiyuv to keep the zayin mitzvas bnei Noach. At what age is a goy mechuyav in the zayin mitzvos Bnei Noach? Is it from the age of thirteen, or is it from a younger age?

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
A man with a daughter in shidduchim has his eye on a certain bochur. He wants this boy as a son-in-law. He knows that there are many reasons this shidduch will not work out under normal circumstances. May he daven that the shidduch should work out, or is this not proper?

Lettuce Train To Strain: Aphids & Thrips
Let’s join Rabbi Yisroel Langer, Dayan at the cRc Beis Din and Rav of Congregation Bais Yitzchok, as he gives us a tutorial on how to check your own lettuce at home.
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New Year, Old Stock: 5785 & Beyond
Let’s join Rabbi Sholom Tendler, Kashrus Administrator at the STAR-K, as he walks us through the sugya of yoshon and what has changed recently, just in time for the start of the new season, 5785.
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Seal The Deal: Protecting Kosher Wine
Wine in the hands of hired help. Wine as a present from a gentile colleague. These questions and everything you need to know about wine in the hands of people that may cause wine to become stam yeinam answered by Rav Shmuel Fuerst, Dayan of Agudas Yisroel of Illinois, in this week’s episode.
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Are You Aware? The Tiers of Beer
Are the drinks at an event kosher? Most hechsheirim usually have a sign saying they take no achrayus. At the cRc though, they recently implemented a new policy with regards to beer at events. Let’s listen to R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago Rabbinical Council and Executive Director of AKO, as he explains the reasoning behind it.
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