November 2,
2005
Coping with Modern Day Challenges of Kosher Food
Production:
Rabbi Moshe Elefant, COO
of OU Kosher,
to be Featured
Speaker at Kosherfest at
Javits Center, November 16
Rabbi Moshe Elefant, Chief
Operating Officer of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division, will be a
featured speaker at the Kosherfest show, which will be held Tuesday,
November 15 and Wednesday, November 16 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention
Center in New York City.
Rabbi Elefant will be speaking on the second day, November 16, as part
of a panel on Kosher Food Processing: Coping with Modern Day Challenges
of Food Production.
The panel, which will also feature Mark Overland of Cargill, an
international food production company; and Rabbi Sholomo Fishbane,
Kashrut Administrator of the Chicago Rabbinical Council, will be held
from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in room 1C04.
Rabbi Elefant and his fellow panelists will be discussing:
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How advances in food
technology have created many new and exciting opportunities for food
consumption.
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How this new era has been
particularly challenging for kashrut.
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The remarkable story of how
technology and kosher have not only coexisted, but also how they
actually thrive together.
Rabbi Elefant is a much sought
after expert on all matters relating to kosher certification. As COO of
OU Kosher, the world’s largest and most recognized kosher agency,
certifying some 400,000 products from nearly 6,000 production facilities
in over 80 countries, Rabbi Elefant is in a unique position of expertise
in the field.
This year, Kosherfest will feature 375 domestic and international
companies, many of them certified by the OU; showcase many thousands of
quality certified kosher products; and present industry-related
educational sessions.
The OU has been an established presence at Kosherfest since the show’s
inception in 1989 and will be located at Booth 534.
For more information, contact Rabbi Yonatan Kaganoff at 212-613-8283 or
kagany@ou.org. Visit the OU Kosher
website at
www.oukosher.org.
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second century of service to the Jewish community of North America and
beyond, is a world leader in community and synagogue services, adult
education, youth work through NCSY, political action through the IPA,
and advocacy for persons with disabilities through Yachad and Our Way.
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 , is the world’s most recognized
kosher symbol and can be found on over 409,000 products manufactured in
83 countries around the globe.
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