Is Your Appliace Kosher?
Living in this modern world often presents many challenges for those of us who make a whole-hearted attempt at observing the Mitzvot. With the advent of many new technologies and these technologies becoming a staple of our modern lives, keeping Shabbat often presents a challenge while utilizing such staples of modern life as a refrigerators or heating trays. Thank God for Frumhackers from various organizations worldwide, we can enjoy modern convenience to
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gether with ancient tradition. Wired Magazine featured a story back in 2004 about Jonah Ottensoser and engineer for the Star K:
Jonah Ottensoser leans over the white stovetop to tweak its settings, giving me a full view of the black yarmulke on his head. But he’s not about to bake a cake. Ottensoser, a large genial man with a gray beard, is an engineer, not a cook, and he’s brought me to the kitchen in his Baltimore office to show off his proud creation: a stove that Jewish consumers will buy just to please God.
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air was featured on Ynet, here, for there development of “kosher” devices which utilize grama to allow for use in emergencies by the IDF and other emergency organizations in Israel.
In the two-and-a-half years that have passed since the rabbi accepted the challenge, Shabbat-friendly pens, telephones, mice, keyboards, electronic doors and gates, and even sensor-activated faucets and urinals have been developed.
(LOUISVILLE, Ky). – New technologies in kitchen appliances, such as electrical, digital readouts and automated defrost sensors, have added complexity and challenges to life in the kosher kitchen. With this in mind, GE is introducing a Sabbath Mode Kit for its built-in models of side-by-side and bottom-freezer refrigerators – to meet the needs of the observant Jewish consumer.
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