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[Dorothy Zbornak]

I wonder if a Muslim could eat kosher and a Jew halal.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

May 19, 2013 14:14:56 GMT -5 rjamz said:

May 19, 2013 13:42:34 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

I say yes to Hebrew national, but I know a lot of people that do not trust their kosher certification. They got into a bit of trouble over it not long ago.

I say no to Hebrew National.

Foozzle pretty much has the rules covered

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Why do you say no to National Hebrew?

[rjamz]

May 19, 2013 13:50:08 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

May 19, 2013 13:48:29 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

OH! That's what that U means!

Also, no lobster? But what about all our fancy rjamz stereotypes? Can you eat caviar?

Most caviar is not kosher! She probably makes up for it by having 2 separate sets of diamond crusted plates?

Don't worry, some caviar is Kosher. Never fear.

And OBVIOUSLY only one set of plates are diamond encrusted bc then I would get confused. The other set is platinum inlaid with other precious jewels

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[rjamz]

May 19, 2013 14:16:07 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

I wonder if a Muslim could eat kosher and a Jew halal.

No and no. The Muslims actually make a blessing before each slaughter while the Jews do it before the first one and that holds for the whole thing. We don't eat halal bc it's a separate blessing

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[The Foozzler]

May 19, 2013 14:17:08 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

May 19, 2013 14:14:56 GMT -5 rjamz said:

I say no to Hebrew National.

Foozzle pretty much has the rules covered

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Why do you say no to National Hebrew?

www.cnn.com/2012/06/19/us/hebrew-national-kosher

This isn't the first allegation they've had of not following kosher guidelines close enough.

[rjamz]

May 19, 2013 14:17:08 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

May 19, 2013 14:14:56 GMT -5 rjamz said:

I say no to Hebrew National.

Foozzle pretty much has the rules covered

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Why do you say no to National Hebrew?

The standard of supervision is too low for me.

There's a difference between kosher and Glatt kosher. Oh man. This is a tough one to explain. Glatt literally means "smooth" meaning the lungs need to be free from blemishes. It's a higher standard of supervision.

Hebrew National isn't Glatt kosher. I only eat Glatt

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[rjamz]

BTW, Dorothy Zbornak have you heard about the museum in Berlin (I think) where they have a Jew you can ask questions to?

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[rjamz]

May 19, 2013 13:54:32 GMT -5 The Foozzler said:

May 19, 2013 13:37:36 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

What if you go out to a restaurant?

This depends on your level of kosherness. Kosher restaurants do exist. Some kosher friends will only eat out at kosher places. Some friends will eat out at any restaurant, but they avoid meat. For a lot of my kosher friends, and the official kosher policy of our Jewish youth group, they follow the policy of only parve (not meat or dairy) or diary, if kosher is not available.

This is the rule I follow

ETA: my parents only go to kosher restaurants

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[Dorothy Zbornak]

May 19, 2013 14:26:22 GMT -5 rjamz said:

BTW, Dorothy Zbornak have you heard about the museum in Berlin (I think) where they have a Jew you can ask questions to?

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Yes, but I'm so far away from Berlin. I think it's a cool idea, but I think it's pretty controversial, too. Just like I like it!

Another question: If you decided to encapsulate your placenta, would a rabbi have to make it kosher?

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Glatt means smooth in German, too!

[rjamz]

May 19, 2013 14:35:13 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

May 19, 2013 14:26:22 GMT -5 rjamz said:

BTW, Dorothy Zbornak have you heard about the museum in Berlin (I think) where they have a Jew you can ask questions to?

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Yes, but I'm so far away from Berlin. I think it's a cool idea, but I think it's pretty controversial, too. Just like I like it!

Another question: If you decided to encapsulate your placenta, would a rabbi have to make it kosher?

SO! I was just reading an article about this. You cannot cook and eat your placenta bc it is a human organ. So it's a no.

BUT a rabbi just came out saying you can encapsulate it bc it becomes so far removed from the original form that it's no longer considered to be human organ.

Not every rabbi would agree but I was just reading it.

I think the thing in Berlin is a great idea.

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[The Foozzler]

May 19, 2013 14:35:13 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

May 19, 2013 14:26:22 GMT -5 rjamz said:

BTW, Dorothy Zbornak have you heard about the museum in Berlin (I think) where they have a Jew you can ask questions to?

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Yes, but I'm so far away from Berlin. I think it's a cool idea, but I think it's pretty controversial, too. Just like I like it!

Another question: If you decided to encapsulate your placenta, would a rabbi have to make it kosher?

Well, you've managed a question that is outside of my kosher knowledge.

[rjamz]

The Foozzler are your parents still religious? Do they keep kosher?

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[The Foozzler]

My parents are not very regious at all. H and I are more religious than our parents because of how involved we became in BBYO. My parents had me bat mitzvahed in a conservative temple with an orthodox rabbi, but that was really only because there were not a lot of options in our area.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

You ladies are awesome! Thank you for indulging my curiosity!

[Dorothy Zbornak]

What's BBYO?

[The Foozzler]

May 19, 2013 14:45:57 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

What's BBYO?

Bbyo is an international Jewish youth group that h and I work with. Those are the teens I work with in Newtown.

[ruby412]

May 19, 2013 14:45:57 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

What's BBYO?

It's a Jewish youth organization, similar to CYO if you're familiar with that?

[Dorothy Zbornak]

May 19, 2013 14:55:53 GMT -5 ruby412 said:

May 19, 2013 14:45:57 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

What's BBYO?

It's a Jewish youth organization, similar to CYO if you're familiar with that?

Ha ... no. But I understand now what it is!

[imimahoney]

Jew here checking in:

I was raised in a kosher house but no longer keep kosher. We are, as my friends say, kosher lite. We don't mix milk and meat in the house, eat pork products or shellfish in the house but we don't eat certified kosher food. I have eaten non kosher food out side of the house though.

Rjamz- my co worker went to Berlin over April break and saw the exhibit, she said it was really interesting and weird at the same time.

Also, I went to a modern Orthodox sleep away camp and a lot of the European staff was Muslim. They liked the modesty of the campers, the morals and the kosher certification of our meals. But they ate separately so they could pray before they ate. We prayed but it was obviously different from them.

[bigapple]

Non-Jew, non-Muslim chiming in. I used to work in an all-Muslim office ( except for me), and most of my coworkers would eat Kosher food because they said that the rules were strict enough for them to be comfortable.

I've definitely been used as a Shabbas Goy

[llamajockey]

Just fartin', for the first time in my life  I saw a commercial for Hebrew National Hot Dogs tonight. 

[muppetinma]

I love this thread. In the past, I've done all my Jew-based questioning by PM.

[cat19]

This thread is awesome.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

May 19, 2013 22:21:11 GMT -5 cat19 said:

This thread is awesome.

Can you pin this bad boy up under the important things thing? Then if we have more Jew questions, we can ask a Jew again!

[cat19]

May 20, 2013 6:59:32 GMT -5 Dorothy Zbornak said:

May 19, 2013 22:21:11 GMT -5 cat19 said:

This thread is awesome.

Can you pin this bad boy up under the important things thing? Then if we have more Jew questions, we can ask a Jew again!

And it is done DZ.

[jfh]

May 19, 2013 22:21:11 GMT -5 cat19 said:

This thread is awesome.

Seconded. I am both enlightened and amused.

[rjamz]

I feel like I need to keep coming back here to check if you guys have a Jewish question!

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[rjamz]

May 20, 2013 13:37:51 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Is Shabbat the same as Sabbath? Is that just the Hebrew term whereas Sabbath is Anglicized?

What is the basis behind the prohibition of milk and meat together? I remember learning about a lot of the Levitical laws in church, and they made sense to me, but I don't remember learning about that one.

Rjamz, was there ever a period when you didn't keep Kosher? Like, when I was in high school, I wasn't very Christian, then I was again, and now I'm kind of not again. Did you ever question it, especially since not all Jews do it? Does it seem burdensome? Or is it just something you've always done, so it is second nature?

Yup, Shabbat and Sabbath are the same thing.

The basis behind the prohibition is the verse that says "thou shalt not cook a kid in it's mother's milk." Somehow that was interpreted to mean the separation of milk and meat.

I've always kept kosher. It's just what I've always done, and it's second nature to me. Like if I go to a non-kosher restaurant my eyes automatically skip over the things I can't eat. They don't even register in my mind as something edible for me. I may not be sure how I feel about God and the actual "religious" aspect of Judaism, but the community aspect of the religion is so important to me that I still follow all of the rules. It's the rules that have held us together since the beginning, you know?

[Dorothy Zbornak]

We should then tag a Jew should more Jewish questions arise. rjamz, your platinum diamond decoder ring will blink when there are new questions.