Kashrut Guidelines

For “Pot Luck” Dinners, Off-Site Meetings, etc.

When we host events such as Erev Shabbat “Pot Luck” dinners where outside food from private kitchens are brought into the building, please follow the restrictions as explained below. (Consider it a great opportunity to learn more about kashrut!)

Since we cannot supervise the entire preparation procedure with outside foods, the shul kitchen will not be used for such events. Also, please contact Rabbi Mark or Linda Zimmerman with any Kashrut questions. In general, these are the guidelines that should be followed:

Basic Guidelines:

• Only bring in foods made with kosher ingredients (obviously).
• If you are using store bought sauces or other processed items in your recipe, please be sure that such items have an acceptable kosher certification symbol somewhere on the label. (Scroll down to see symbols.)
• Any raw or unprocessed ingredients contained in your dish should obviously not contain anything that is not kosher.
• No meat products (since we only allow pareve or dairy for such events), etc.
• Please plan on using new disposable foil pans or plastic bowls.
• If you do not keep a kosher home, hot items require special care and should be prepared in either a new pot or disposable foil pan.
• We will provide the serving pieces and will set up the sterno trays for items that need to remain warm.

We are also fortunate to have many options for prepared kosher baked goods which can be purchased from:

• The kosher section of the Dunwoody or Toco Hills Krogers (their baked goods are parve)
• The Toco Hills Publix bakery is kosher – Dairy
• The Brookhaven and Dunwoody Costco Bakery – Dairy – check for kosher symbol
• The Spicy Peach in Toco Hills – all products are kosher
• TipTop Grocery Store in Dunwoody – all products are kosher
• Krispy Kreme Stores that are certified by the AKC
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