FSTC Exam 2 Questions and Answers
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Kosher - ✔✔food acceptable to all Jews; fit for consumption
Treif - ✔✔not kosher
Orthodox Jews - ✔✔10% of the Jewish population, bound to all of the
traditional laws, expect all adherents to be kosher, local Rabbi is the final
decision maker
Responsa - ✔✔Orthodox Jews: Rabbi's policy opinions, with broad
acceptance over time determines what becomes incorporated into law
Conservative Jews - ✔✔largest group of US Jews, normally expect all
adherents to be kosher; realistically more limited observance by individual
members & they are officially tied to the traditional law although more often
liberal in interpreting it
Reform Jews - ✔✔limited involvement in kosher, do not feel bound to the
traditional law
Re constructionist Jews - ✔✔may be kosher, a modern, more spiritualistic
group
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,four main kosher laws - ✔✔1. allow birds and animals
2. prohibition of consuming blood of meat and poultry
3. "complete" separation of milk and meat
4. prohibition of certain grains at Passover where the bread is unleavened
Passover - ✔✔religious festival celebrating the Exodus
Mainstream Kosher supervision - ✔✔represented by the "big four" national
agencies
1. OU
2. Kof-K
3. Star-K
4. OK
Permitted Ruminants in Kosher - ✔✔1. must have a split hoof
2. must chew their cud (cattle, buffalo, deer, giraffe)
3. must be a tradition of using the animal for food
4. castrated animals are not considered kosher
Non-kosher animals - ✔✔camels, pigs, horse, llama, alpaca, rabbits
kosher birds - ✔✔turkeys, ducks, chickens; more of a middle toe, extended
forward or back, crop (used for food storage), favors seed eating birds, the
gizzard can be peeled by hand
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, non-kosher birds - ✔✔birds of prey, pelicans, swans- fish eating birds, and
speaking birds
Shochet - ✔✔Slaughter man; only person who can slaughter and animal
(mammal or fowl) must be Shomer Shabbos (sabbath observant man); has
special training, both religious (legal) and practical says blessing before
commencing slaughter (asking for forgiveness for taking a life)
Mikvah - ✔✔ritual bath used by shochets when finished slaughtering
Ketuba - ✔✔the ritual slaughterer, must have certificate of training from a
certifying agency
Chalef - ✔✔slaughtering knife, straight blade, must be at least twice the
length of the animals neck but not weigh more than the animals head, must
be extremely sharp, must be checked after each use, use the fingernail
test, if the knife fails the test the previously slaughtered animals must be
rejected
Poultry slaughter - ✔✔a smaller chalef is only used to cut the windpipe, can
be done by machine with a rotating knife, kosher knife check is done after a
group of birds have been processed, if there is a problem, the company
would be required to reject the entire set of birds since the last inspection
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©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
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Kosher - ✔✔food acceptable to all Jews; fit for consumption
Treif - ✔✔not kosher
Orthodox Jews - ✔✔10% of the Jewish population, bound to all of the
traditional laws, expect all adherents to be kosher, local Rabbi is the final
decision maker
Responsa - ✔✔Orthodox Jews: Rabbi's policy opinions, with broad
acceptance over time determines what becomes incorporated into law
Conservative Jews - ✔✔largest group of US Jews, normally expect all
adherents to be kosher; realistically more limited observance by individual
members & they are officially tied to the traditional law although more often
liberal in interpreting it
Reform Jews - ✔✔limited involvement in kosher, do not feel bound to the
traditional law
Re constructionist Jews - ✔✔may be kosher, a modern, more spiritualistic
group
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
,four main kosher laws - ✔✔1. allow birds and animals
2. prohibition of consuming blood of meat and poultry
3. "complete" separation of milk and meat
4. prohibition of certain grains at Passover where the bread is unleavened
Passover - ✔✔religious festival celebrating the Exodus
Mainstream Kosher supervision - ✔✔represented by the "big four" national
agencies
1. OU
2. Kof-K
3. Star-K
4. OK
Permitted Ruminants in Kosher - ✔✔1. must have a split hoof
2. must chew their cud (cattle, buffalo, deer, giraffe)
3. must be a tradition of using the animal for food
4. castrated animals are not considered kosher
Non-kosher animals - ✔✔camels, pigs, horse, llama, alpaca, rabbits
kosher birds - ✔✔turkeys, ducks, chickens; more of a middle toe, extended
forward or back, crop (used for food storage), favors seed eating birds, the
gizzard can be peeled by hand
2
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, non-kosher birds - ✔✔birds of prey, pelicans, swans- fish eating birds, and
speaking birds
Shochet - ✔✔Slaughter man; only person who can slaughter and animal
(mammal or fowl) must be Shomer Shabbos (sabbath observant man); has
special training, both religious (legal) and practical says blessing before
commencing slaughter (asking for forgiveness for taking a life)
Mikvah - ✔✔ritual bath used by shochets when finished slaughtering
Ketuba - ✔✔the ritual slaughterer, must have certificate of training from a
certifying agency
Chalef - ✔✔slaughtering knife, straight blade, must be at least twice the
length of the animals neck but not weigh more than the animals head, must
be extremely sharp, must be checked after each use, use the fingernail
test, if the knife fails the test the previously slaughtered animals must be
rejected
Poultry slaughter - ✔✔a smaller chalef is only used to cut the windpipe, can
be done by machine with a rotating knife, kosher knife check is done after a
group of birds have been processed, if there is a problem, the company
would be required to reject the entire set of birds since the last inspection
3
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
