A Cable to Jewish Life

15-CJ Talking Kosher
Rabbi Don Yoel Levy of the OK Labs takes us through the ABCs of kosher products and discusses the need for supervision of kosher food items. Isn't it time you know what makes food kosher?
25-CJ Kosher for Passover
With Rabbi Don Yoel Levy of the OK Labs and special appearance by actor Yoni Gershan. Find out some facts about kosher for Passover products. You may be surprised by the revelations.
57-CJ A Tasty Shabbos - The Video
Rebbetzin Esther Winner, hostess, and Helen Zegerman Schwimmer, producer, cook up one exciting Shabbos, with delicious gefilte fish, challah and potato kugel. Get 15 new recipes from their home video, A Taste of Shabbos. This show will make your mouth water.
59-CJ L'Chaim - Kosher Wine
The Bible tells us wine cheers G-d and man. The Talmud says wine is at the head of all medicine. Learn more about the wine in your life, as Joseph Zakon of Kesser Wine talks about the art of wine making and its central role in Jewish life. He explains how the Jews lost the art of wine-making for 2,000 years--and only recently regained it. Heady stuff.
70-CJ Kosher Vitamins
Does shark cartilage sound tasty? Dr. and Mrs. Zimmerman of Freeda Vitamins don't think so. They created kosher vitamins for those who are conscious of their bodies and souls. They also discuss a cancer prevention pill that has been created as a result of strict adherence to Jewish dietary laws.
71-CJ Kosher Consumer Advocate
You see "K" on products all the time, but does "K" really mean kosher? And what about all those other 177 kosher symbols? How does a consumer separate fact from fiction? Rabbi Yosef Wikler of Kashrus Magazine and Kashrus FAXletter shares his experiences as the Ralph Nader of the kashrus industry, protecting the consumer from kosher food fraud.
109-CJ Shechitah - "Processing Kosher Meat"
What's the alternative to kosher meat? In England, there is a movement against the Jewish way of slaughtering animals, yet Mad Cow disease has practically wiped out all of England's meat industry. World-traveling Schochet Rabbi Leibel Turk shows you the whys and hows kosher meat, the prince of all foods, is the only choice cut of them all.
113-CJ Kosher Historical Spain
About Sephardic Jews' endless love affair with Spain, and why many Jews are rediscovering so much of their own Jewish way of life in the towns and cities where their ancestors once lived and bloomed before 1492. Noted lecturer Chana Scharfstein takes you on a kosher and educational tour of Spain. Hear about those famous Jewish names--Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi, Abarbanel, et al.-- who were once Spaniards. See loads of footage, including the first synagogue ever built in Madrid, the famous Jewish Quarter in Seville, and Gibraltar, the Crown Colony that rests on the Sabbath.
114-CJ Kosher Scandinavia
About Sephardic Jews' endless love affair with Spain, and why many Jews are rediscovering so much of their own Jewish way of life in the towns and cities where their ancestors once lived and bloomed before 1492. Noted lecturer Chana Scharfstein takes you on a kosher and educational tour of Spain. Hear about those famous Jewish names--Maimonides, Yehuda Halevi, Abarbanel, et al.-- who were once Spaniards. See loads of footage, including the first synagogue ever built in Madrid, the famous Jewish Quarter in Seville, and Gibraltar, the Crown Colony that rests on the Sabbath.
146-CJ Rabbi "Kofs" Up Kosher for Passover
If you are determined to have everything you eat kosher for Passover and want to feel squeaky clean as you march out of Egypt to the Promised Land, then listen to Rabbi Harvey Senter of Kof-K Kosher Supervision point out the fine points of keeping kosher for Passover. "Just because a product does not have pork listed in the ingredients doesn't make it kosher, and even if the ingredients are all kosher, you may still have a problem with equipment," counsels Rabbi Senter. Find out lots more about Passover.
158-CJ Mmmm, That Chanukah Food!
In honor of our Chanukah heroine, Yehudit, and all the heroines in our long Jewish history, we offer a cooking lesson for mouth-watering Chanukah foods prepared at the Kosher Tea Room, all of which you can prepare in great style and delight in your own home. Along the way, we play with dreidles, light the menorah, give out gelt, and kick up our feet in dance. Join us.