By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld

A closer look at the complexities of all types of whiskies and bourbon with Rabbi Akiva Niehaus – Director of Kashrus Operations at the cRc and the Rabbinic Coordinator of the Liquor Industry at the cRc.
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View it in its entirety at https://www.kashrusawareness.com/post/vintage-whisky
Check out the cRc’s liquor list on their website https://consumer.crckosher.org/liquor/
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By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
Succos is one of the Shalosh Regalim. The mitzva of Aliya L’regel to the Bais Hamikdash applied to all three Regalim. One may try to understand what the mitzva of traveling up to the Bais Hamikdash is all about. Is this mitzva a way of getting to the Bais Hamikdash to be close to Hashem, or is there an actual mitzva of traveling up to the Bais Hamikdash?

Iced Tea. Frappuccino. Cold Brew. Ice Shaken Espresso. These are just a few of the items on Starbucks cold drinks menu. Let’s explore the kashrus status of these drinks and others with R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago Rabbinical Council and Executive Director of AKO as he breaks down the menu for us in this fourth and final installment of the Starbucks series.
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Many options on the Starbucks hot drink menu. Mocha. Cappuccino. Hot Cocoa. Lattes. But are they kosher?  R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago Rabbinical Council and Executive Director of AKO breaks down the menu for us in this third installment of the Starbucks series.
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View it in its entirety at https://www.kashrusawareness.com/post/starbucks-there-s-a-latte-options
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What can be wrong with a plain black coffee? Apparently it isn’t that simple. R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago Rabbinical Council and Executive Director of AKO gives us guidance in this second installment of the Starbucks series.
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By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
The mishna in Avos 3:8 says that if one forgets his learning it is as if he is chayev misa (capital punishment.) The gemara in Menachos says when one forgets his learning, he is over on three lavin.
Meseches Horiyus lists types of food that cause a person to forget his learning if he partakes of them. If one eats from these foods, does he fall under the category of the mishna in Avos and the gemara in Menachos?

A walkthrough of your local Starbucks store from a kashrus perspective with R’ Sholem Fishbane, Director of Kashrus for the Chicago Rabbinical Council and Executive Director of AKO.
View it in its entirety at https://www.kashrusawareness.com/post/Starbucks-an-introduction
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By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld
The well known posuk in Tehillim says, “Im eshkacheich… tishkach yemini.” We need to understand what this posuk is telling us.  The nature of a person is that “hergel,” that which is the norm on a day-to-day basis, dulls our thinking and we stop to analyze and ask questions. What does the posuk mean when it says if we forget Yerushalayim we forget the right side?