Every year, in the days just before the start of the Jewish Passover holiday, the telephones at the Chicago Rabbinical Council start ringing off the hook. Nearly all the calls are about food. And n… ...

As the Jewish holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur approach, the Chicago Rabbinical Council has launched an Android version of its free kosher foods application for smartphones that merges Bibli… ...

Competing with the OU’s app is cRc Kosher 1.1,. In addition to the general kashrut information, from the Chicago Rabbinical Council, it provides about details about kosher products, ...

In the last few years, we have seen a flood of apps created to make life easier for observant Jews. In an effort to discover the “must-have” Jewish apps, I recently asked friends, family, and ...

Fishbane noted that globally, there’s an estimated 1,500 kosher agencies, only around 250 of which meet the CRC’s requirements for certification, so managing to keep track of all those that ...

And here in Chicago, a kosher Subway restaurant is expected to open sometime next year, joining the kosher Dunkin’ Donuts that has been open on Devon Avenue for years. According to Rabbi Moshe Kushner ...

So in 2012, when the process began, Buffalo Trace had to buy oak barrels specifically for the purpose of aging kosher whiskey, with the purchase overseen by the cRc. They were aged in a special ...