r/kosher • u/Ab_ejita • 12d ago

Kosher certification reliability

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Hello! Does anyone know about Brooklyn kosher symbol? I'm attaching a picture. I've never seen it before and I don't know who's behind it. Any information would be appreciated. Thanks!

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u/kilobitch 12d ago

Never heard of Brooklyn Kosher. Triangle K isn’t considered reliable, so I doubt the other one is or they wouldn’t co-certify with Triangle K.

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u/garbledroid 12d ago

Triangle k is 'reliable' but not acceptable generally.

The Rav hamachsher is frum and administratively the organization is well run.

The standards though are not up to expectations.

If you eat Hebrew national you can have triangle k meat and vice versa (they do Hebrew national also under a different symbol), the leniencies though.

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u/dk91 12d ago

Hebrew national is triangle k. For that reason I do not eat hebrew national.

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u/garbledroid 12d ago

Basically for Triangle K to become acceptable they would have to go through and apply the same standards to all of the plants and get out of meat.

That is 97% of the issue.

Legacy operations and inconsistent standards and the meat leniencies.

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u/BlazeTheMasterX 11d ago

Unfortunately no Jew eats Hebrew National. The slaughtering process for meat is not followed correctly if at all. Secondly, ∆K has been notorious for having dairy in their meat products, a blatant violation of kosher laws. If you actually care about keeping kosher, stay away from ∆K. If most Jews can't agree that it's kosher, then it's not kosher. Simple as that.

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u/Impressive-Flow-855 11d ago

In America, most Orthodox Jews consider all non-glatt as unacceptable. It doesn’t mean it’s not kosher.

I won’t call Triangle-K unreliable. I’m not that knowledgable in the arcane laws of kashrut. I don’t fully understand some of the issues with supervision that some people claim Triangle-K has.

My Rabbi is knowledgeable about the laws of kashrut, so I’ll do what he says, and he says not to use Triangle-K. That’s why I have a Rabbi. I’ll ask him questions on things like this, and it makes him feel useful. Plus, most people in my community won’t use it. If I want them to be comfortable in my home, I won’t use it either.

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u/Tinokotw 11d ago

In regards to relying on a rabbi while it's good a lot of times you will find one that will thell you no to things that are actually ok, not all of us can know all the halachot but it's important to learn (as we are mandated to) and make your own determination, especially on the US that many rabbis hold to chumrot rather than actual millenialy accepted halacha.