Definitions

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  • noun A marking that certifies that a product is kosher.

Etymologies

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Hebrew הכשר, "prior approval".

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Examples

  • I said that hechsher is Yiddish for Kosher, Arieh says it's not, it's Hebrew.

    Hoist on My Own Pedantry, I Mistake Hebrew for Yiddish. 2007

  • Much food — flour, rice, and other staples, and all produce — is kosher by definition, and need not bear a "hechsher," or kosher symbol, although a lot of it does.

    The Kosher Conversion 2005

  • Much food — flour, rice, and other staples, and all produce — is kosher by definition, and need not bear a "hechsher," or kosher symbol, although a lot of it does.

    The Kosher Conversion 2005

  • No ‘bipartisan hechsher’ for Chabad in D.C. JTA, Sept 9, 2008

    dem slams lubavitch for partisanship 2008

  • No ‘bipartisan hechsher’ for Chabad in D.C. JTA, Sept 9, 2008

    10 « September « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • “I currently do not feel that it is proper for a NJDC representative to give a ‘bi-partisan hechsher’ to your events,” Forman wrote in an e-mail to American Friends of Lubavitch Washington director Rabbi Levi Shemtov that was obtained by JTA.

    10 « September « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • “I currently do not feel that it is proper for a NJDC representative to give a ‘bi-partisan hechsher’ to your events,” Forman wrote in an e-mail to American Friends of Lubavitch Washington director Rabbi Levi Shemtov that was obtained by JTA.

    dem slams lubavitch for partisanship 2008

  • There are evident national security implications for any country that allows the Rabbinate to create a situation where no one teaches the Hebrew language without a Rabbinical hechsher seal of approval—the intelligence implications are staggering, actually.

    01 « May « 2008 « Niqnaq 2008

  • There are evident national security implications for any country that allows the Rabbinate to create a situation where no one teaches the Hebrew language without a Rabbinical hechsher seal of approval—the intelligence implications are staggering, actually.

    the british chief rabbinate and why I don’t like it 2008

  • Rubashkin Arrest and Failed Messiah hechsher tzedek see:

    Yet more on heter, shmetter | Jewschool 2007

  • And I also have a friend who most people wouldn’t have even realized was observant and who wouldn’t eat at a vegan restaurant that didn’t have a hechsher (kosher certification).

    coworker's food restrictions are restricting me, someone told my boss I'm job hunting, and more Ask a Manager 2018

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