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The King of Kosher Food: Rabbi Menachem Genack | Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer

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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

An interview with Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of the OU Kosher Certification Agency and a prominent Jewish leader.

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when I was growing up we didn't have all these chocolates that we have now and um so what do we have to do is sort of read the ingredient panel and that's you know and sort of thing because that would be very difficult right but but people don't realize that there are lots of components in in ingredient in a formula that might not be listed that might not be kosher and the flavors or or that's not even on the package right over a million products in this world on kosher food have that in this world on kosher food have that OU stamp you've probably seen on Reddit people asking what in the world is that what exactly makes something kosher what's the process behind it and who's a person managing all of that of the OU is a RAV is a friend of one of the former presidents and a massive talmud of the Rev and I got to sit down with him to talk about everything food in this week's episode so you will know a lot more about kosher this episode is in memory of it as well as Miriam Sarah in memory of it as well as Miriam Sarah Bas Yak of Moshe and we are embarking on maybe one of the most important challenges that our community is facing today so stick around and middle of the episode so you're gonna hear an incredible uh movement that's happening that you could be a part of that I want you to be a part of your listener please be a part of it now here is my conversation with Ravi connect I'm yaakov Langer and you're listening to inspiration for the nation

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