Kosher

What Is Kosher?

There are biblical, rabbinical, geographical, health, ethical, and other issues to consider about what is and is not kosher. The first list below provides some sites which discuss various issues.

Kosher Shopping in Oregon

(Stores listed as carrying kosher foods are provided for informational purposes, only. We are not endorsing any of the stores or recommending that you shop at them.)

Oregon Kosher lists restaurants, bakeries, and markets in the Portland area that have kosher food. The site includes some limited information for the Eugene area.

The online magazine, Kosher Delight, lists some of the same places to get kosher food as do the other sites above. It includes some additional information for the Eugene area.

Some packaged kosher food is available at markets in Roseburg, such as:

  • Albertson’s
  • Fred Meyer
  • Safeway
  • Sherm’s Thunderbird

Kosher Recipes

  • Joy of Kosher (search by category, including gluten-free, vegetarian, and kid friendly.)
  • Culinary Kosher Recipes (there are categories including ingredients, countries, gluten-free, low sugar, kid favorites, holidays, and others.)
  • Kosher in the Kitch (select recipes from categories that include ingredients, holidays, gluten-free, vegetarian, low sugar, healthy snacks, and others.)
  • Kosher.com (there are categories for ingredients and holidays; the site can be searched for gluten-free, vegetarian, and other terms.)
  • Jewish Recipes (has extensive information about Jewish cooking; kosher recipes are categorized by ingredient, country, and by holiday; there is a vegetarian category but none for gluten-free.)
  • Classically Kosher© (included are recipes for Passover, gluten-free, and vegetarian; use the site search to find what you want.)
  • The Kosher Channel (a variety of recipes are available in categories for challah, salads, fish, soup, chicken, meat, sides, leftovers, sweets, and holidays; the site can be searched for terms such as gluten-free and vegetarian.)
  • Printable Kosher Recipes (recipes are easily downloaded as pdf files; categories are Main Dishes, Salads & Soups; Sides, Desserts & Treats, and Challah; searching for gluten-free brings up a list, but vegetarian does not.)
  • The Shiksa in the Kitchen (the shiksa actually is a woman who converted to Judaism; her site includes many kosher recipes, including ones that are gluten-free and vegetarian.)
  • Chabad.org Kosher Recipes & Cooking (recipes are categorized by type and holiday; there no categories or search filters for gluten-free or vegetarian.)
  • allrecipes.com (although a general recipe site, it has more than 1,000 kosher recipes.)
  • Food.com™ (this general recipe site has a list of kosher recipes categorized by Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah, ashkenazi, and sephardi.)
  • epicurious: Kosher (the kosher section of this general recipe site has categories for main ingredient, meal, type, cuisine, season, category, and preparation method.)
  • the Spruce Eats (a general site with a variety of kosher recipes that include bread, soups, salads, main courses, side dishes, and desserts.)

Kosher Certification

There are at least 90 different agencies/individuals that provide kosher certification, just in the United States of America. Many other agencies are in other countries around the world. The following list includes links to a few of the organizations in the USA that provide kosher certification services.

  • Kosher Supervision of America
    KSA is the largest, recognized and accepted, Orthodox kosher certification agency based in the western United States.
  • OK Kosher Certification
    Committee for the Advancement of Torah has provided kosher certification since 1935 and maintains a database of more than 700,000 kosher products.
  • OU Kosher
    The Orthodox Union has provided kosher certification for over 80 years and maintains a variety of consumer resources on its website.
  • Star-K
    Star-K provides kosher certification, kosher and organic auditing, a Passover directory, and a kosher medicine guide.