hechsher

I said that hechsher is Yiddish for Kosher, Arieh says it's not, it's Hebrew.

Hoist on My Own Pedantry, I Mistake Hebrew for Yiddish. 2007

Much food — flour, rice, and other staples, and all produce — is kosher by definition, and need not bear a "hechsher," or kosher symbol, although a lot of it does.

The Kosher Conversion 2005

Much food — flour, rice, and other staples, and all produce — is kosher by definition, and need not bear a "hechsher," or kosher symbol, although a lot of it does.

The Kosher Conversion 2005

No ‘bipartisan hechsher’ for Chabad in D.C. JTA, Sept 9, 2008

dem slams lubavitch for partisanship 2008

No ‘bipartisan hechsher’ for Chabad in D.C. JTA, Sept 9, 2008

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“I currently do not feel that it is proper for a NJDC representative to give a ‘bi-partisan hechsher’ to your events,” Forman wrote in an e-mail to American Friends of Lubavitch Washington director Rabbi Levi Shemtov that was obtained by JTA.

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“I currently do not feel that it is proper for a NJDC representative to give a ‘bi-partisan hechsher’ to your events,” Forman wrote in an e-mail to American Friends of Lubavitch Washington director Rabbi Levi Shemtov that was obtained by JTA.

dem slams lubavitch for partisanship 2008

There are evident national security implications for any country that allows the Rabbinate to create a situation where no one teaches the Hebrew language without a Rabbinical hechsher seal of approval—the intelligence implications are staggering, actually.

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There are evident national security implications for any country that allows the Rabbinate to create a situation where no one teaches the Hebrew language without a Rabbinical hechsher seal of approval—the intelligence implications are staggering, actually.

the british chief rabbinate and why I don’t like it 2008

Rubashkin Arrest and Failed Messiah hechsher tzedek see:

Yet more on heter, shmetter | Jewschool 2007