Wow! You know Mashiach is on his way when...

Wow! You know Mashiach is on his way when...Firstly - today's post is dedicated for a refuah shlema for Yocheved Yaakovit bat Leah, Ita Tzipa bas Dveyra Basha and Sorah Rivka bas Yehudis - please have them in mind when davening or saying Tehillim.


Thanks, Davetrek for the following:

http://www.koshertoday.com/ news.asp

New Gadgets Help Some Kosher Consumers
New York…by Tova Ross, KosherToday Features Editor…Keeping kosher is becoming easier, thanks to a number of high tech innovations. Kosher adherents can already use an Apple app “My Grocery Master” to search a database of over 100,000 specialty foods for kosher products in their closest grocery stores. Now comes a new invention: a stick that can detect the presence of pork in any dish. The uni-cultural plastic stick can alert both kosher and Halal eaters to the prohibited pig by using antibodies that react with the non-kosher animal’s muscle tissue. Invented by scientists at the Kazakh National Center for Biotechnology, the stick may not be so necessary for kosher consumers in the US, who rely on some of the 1,000 kosher-certifying agencies and rabbis as well as the FDA to properly ensure their food is not contaminated with pork products. Yet the stick comes in handy for Muslims in Kazakhstan (Islam is the dominant religion there), where chefs often use pork in supposedly Halal dishes because it is cheaper than many other meats. Sources told KosherToday that the stick may be handy for Jews who keep kosher and are frequent travelers around the globe, where food certification standards are not always subject to the strict ones in place in the U.S.

While the stick may not be a practical everyday aid, iBless Food 1.0 by the Davka Corporation can come in more handy. iBless Food 1.0 is a resource guide for Hebrew blessings (brachos) for over 500 different foods. It allows for easy scrolling on an iPod, iPhone, or iPad to discover what type of blessing should be made over fruits, vegetables, and popular snacks and appetizers. The blessing—both for before and after the food being eaten—is shown in both Hebrew and English transliteration and chanted aloud with each word highlighted as it is said. Additional information about the customs of that particular blessing is also shown.

btw go to http://davetrek.com for some fun upcoming events around the NY area!

Shabbat Shalom!
Esther Asna