We left our readers last week in mid-air, so to speak, trying to decide which airline to use, based on its safety standards. Should s/he use the government-approved airline with minimal standards (basic standards which will (probably) work (most of the time)), but perhaps too often will fail? It also uses certain parts that some [...]
Speaking of kashrus (What? You didn’t read last week’s piece?), I am quite often literally bombarded with shailos about hechsherim. What, ultimately, is the difference between them? Why do we need mehadrin hechsherim? (Actually, why do we need hechsherim at all? This will, bli neder, be a subject of another piece someday.) What does a mehadrin [...]
As we experience once again the days of chometz u’matzah, we look back to Pesach and suddenly realize that we just experienced a seven-day period with a near obsession with food. ”Do we eat this?” ”Can we trust this hechsher?” are just some of the questions we all ask, and that every rav hears, in the [...]
