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Kupat Ha’ir’s Over The Top Advertising

The report you heard is true, according to multiple, reliable local sources with whom I checked. The Lakewood mashgiah Rav Mattisyahu Solomon, shlit”a, did term some of the solicitation techniques of Kupat Ha’ir as “gezel gamur”/ theft in the true sense of the term. According to one local press report, he decried the fact that single women desperate for a ...

Kotel: You’re Looking at the Man in the Mirror

For me, there is something mystical about approaching the Kotel — the Western Wall in Jerusalem. While this remnant wasn’t even one of the walls of the Temple (it was a surrounding wall), I recognize how full those stones are with the history of the Jewish people.However, for many Jews today approaching the Kotel and praying there is like, well, ...

Kosher Wines For Passover

Trader Joe’s is carrying a new line of kosher wines. I have never heard of anything like them before.For red wines they have some Tempranillo blends from Spain under the Terrenal brand for $3.99 They also have a blend of Chardonnay and Macabeo for $3.99 (also Spanish also Terrenal). They also have Sara Bee Moscato $5.99 (Italian) and Banero – ...

Kosher Toilet Bowl Cleaner

Someone on my backup facebook account sent me this picture he snapped of kosher toilet bowl cleaner and yes it makes one think how extreme the kashrus industry can go and if we should even trust an industry which doesn;t feel like it’s even stealing by having someone pay for a symbol on a product that no animal would even ...

Kosher Restaurant in NYC Gets Shot Down by New York Jets

The Vos Iz Neias blog reports that a New York Jets team official discovered that Prime KO Japanese Steakhouse, a popular kosher restaurant on the Upper West Side of Manhattan was serving menu items with a New York Jets theme. She ordered them to pull the “Green on Green Jets Salad” and “Jets Dragon Roll” off the menu.Jets spokeswoman Jessica ...

Kosher Racism

I asked the author of a new blog called Meshuga Parents if I could post the following piece that was up on the blog. Yesterday, my tichel clad wife took our son to the park. Even though it was about 5 or 6 pm-ish, there was a fair amount of kids still running around. My son began to play with ...

Kosher for Festivus

I’ve celebrated Festivus before. I’ve done it all–the feats of strength; sat around a metal poll; aired my grievances. But doing all of that, I never once mistook the holiday for Jewish ritual.That really helps explain why this story didn’t work out in the end.Malcolm Alarmo King is a convicted drug dealer currently serving time at Theo Lacy Jail in ...

Kosher Culture: Jewish, Muslim Students Cook in Sydney

60 Jewish and Muslim school children cooked side by side Wednesday in Bondi’s Our Big Kitchen, a Chabad run community kitchen in Sydney, Australia.The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Education Secretariat coordinated the event and brought the schools together. They approached Rabbi Dovid Slavin, director of Our Big Kitchen with the idea to host the Year 5 and 6 students ...

Kohelet: Solving The Complexities of Life

The sages tell us that there are three forces that take a person out of reality: jealousy, desire, and honor.Jealousy is the illusion that if someone else has more, than I have correspondingly less. In spirituality there are no limitations. We are given exactly what we need to achieve in life. We can be our absolute maximum self regardless of ...

Know Before Whom You Stand: Learning from Everyone

These words are displayed over the ark containing the Torah scrolls in many synagogues: Da Lifnei Mi Atah Omed (“Know Before Whom You Stand”). Thousands of Jewish people see this reminder in front of them while sitting in synagogue. Of course, the phrase reminds us to keep in mind that we stand before God while we pray in synagogue and it calls to ...

Knit With Rags And Make A Rustic Table Runner, Or Two, Or Three!

I really honestly can’t believe I made this! Mostly because this was a result of absolutely no planning on my part, I just started knitting! I didn’t decide how much of each color, I pretty much just made balls of “yarn” from pillow cases, and each band of color represents a pillow case. Even that little pink and white striped ...

Kippah Your Head Covering Outta My Office

Kippah. Yarmulke. Beanie. Skullcap. You can call it whatever you want, but the Jewish head covering has been in the news and in pop culture a lot lately.The New York Post reports that an Italian man is suing McKinsey & Co., the international consulting firm, claiming he was fired after repeatedly complaining to human resources that his colleagues made fun ...