Rav Lieff and Rav Oelbaum to Address OU Kosher Consumer Education Seminar

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lieffWhen OU Kosher presents its program, Kashrut and You: a Kosher Consumer Education Seminar on Sunday, February 14 from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Lander College in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, it will once again call on distinguished rabbonim to address the various subjects under discussion.

The event is sponsored by the Harry H. Beren Foundation of Lakewood, NJ.

According to Rabbi Yosef Grossman, OU Director of Kosher Education who is coordinating the seminar, “We are most gratified that not only will an impressive team of OU kashrut experts headed by OU Kosher’s Chief Executive Officer Rabbi Menachem Genack and its Chief Operating Officer Rabbi Moshe Elefant be presenting on relevant kosher noach-isaac-oelbaumconsumer issues, but they will be joined by two leading dynamic rabbinic personalities from outside the OU as well.”

“Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff,who recently moved from a rabbinic position in Minneapolis to become Rav of Agudas Yisroel Bais Binyomin in Brooklyn, will discuss In-Town Kashrut Versus Out-of-Town Kashrut – The Maalot (Advantages)and Chesronot (Drawbacks) of Each.”

He will be joined by the well known Rav and Marbitz Torah Rabbi Noach Isaac Oelbaum of Kew Gardens Hills who will discuss Eating Foods that are a Sakonoh (Danger).

“We look forward to a very enjoyable and enlightening kosher consumer educational seminar,” Rabbi Grossman declared.

Other topics to be discussed include Shmaltz Is Us – a Discussion of Oils and Salad Dressings; Current Consumer Dairy Issues; Basar B’Cholov – The Isur Bishul and the Isur Hano’oh; Safeguarding the Chain of the Current Meat Supply; ‘The Baking Industry; and The Making of Kosher Wine and Grapejuice – an Audio/Video Presentation. The seminar is free of charge and is open to men and women.

Pre-registration is required. For more information contact Rabbi Grossman at 914-391-9470. To register call 212-613-8279, email [email protected] or register online at www.ou.org.

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  1. We owe it to the kosher consumer

    We in the field of Kashrus have accepted a fiduciary responsibility on behalf of the kosher consumer. Therefore, we owe our fidelity to the kosher consumer to uphold and maintain that fiduciary responsibility.

    Executives who face troubling decisions are often confused about how to arrive at the right, moral and ethical course of action. This is not surprising since by definition a “moral dilemma” is one where there is no clear right and wrong, only positives and negatives.

    We should be guided in our moral reasoning by the insight that comes from respecting the moral rights of the kosher consumer; justice to colleagues and peers; consequences and outcomes; explaining and defending to others as well as to ourselves the decisions we make.

    Have I searched for all alternatives? Are there other ways I could look at the situation? Have I listened and considered all points of view of my colleagues and peers, while still maintaining high ethical standards?

    Even if there is sound rationality for this decision, and even if I could defend it publicly, does my inner sense tell me this is right? Will my colleagues, peers, and the educated kosher consumer agree with my rationality?

    Does this decision agree with my religious beliefs and with my personal principles and sense of responsibility to the kosher consumer? Would I want others in kashrus to make the same decision and to take the same action if faced with the same circumstances?

    What are my true motives for this action? Would this action infringe on the moral rights and dignity of others? Would this action involve deceiving others in any way? Would I feel this action was just (ethical or fair) if I were on the other side of the decision? Am I being unduly influenced by others who may not be as sensitive to these ethical standards?

    How would I feel (or how will I feel) if (or when) this action becomes known to the educated

    Kosher consumer? Would others feel that my action or decision is ethically and morally justifiable to the educated kosher consumer? Can I justify my action as directly beneficial to the kosher consumer and to kashrus in general?

    We can stretch and expand our moral reasoning and ethical judgment, and sharpen our ethical sensitivity and moral awareness by thinking through particular dilemmas in light of the above. If we consider all the questions discussed above with real intent and pure motives, then we can be confident that we will come with G-D’s help, to sound and ethical decisions.

    When we achieve clarity as to the issues of the dilemma, we are better prepared to make a decision that is both right and defensible. We must remember that our goal is to achieve an ethical course of action in all areas of kashrus, not to find a way to construct a rational argument in support of an unethical decision.

    Our daily decisions do (at times indirectly) impact the kosher consumer. We live in a world where other concerns e.g. profits etc., often come into conflict with the concern for ethics and principles; and where society is demanding a higher standard of kashrus, and a higher ethic of social responsibility to the kosher consumer.

    We must be willing and able to give the kosher consumer in fact, that which the kosher consumer believes he / she is getting in theory.

    We owe it to ourselves…..we are all “kosher-consumers”.

    Yudel Shain
    Kosher Consumers Union

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