Kosher Australia
Chocolatine on Kooyong Rd Caulfield has lost it's Kosher certification. Photo: Peter Haskin
August 26, 2025, 12:10 pm
Chocolatine loses certification
Kosher Australia mandated the removal of certification and advised consumers that all existing products should be discarded.
By Bruce Hill
David Brykman (left) and Benji Jotkowitz
July 27, 2023, 11:14 am
Mizrachi president faces challenge
There is a challenge for key committee positions at the upcoming AGM for The Mizrachi Organisation, which incorporates the Mizrachi Synagogue, Leibler Yavneh College and Kosher Australia.
By Peter Kohn
April 13, 2022, 2:30 pm
Living the Pesach dream
Each year Kosher Australia spends hundreds of hours preparing our Pesach guide, which aims to make keeping the Yom Tov just a little easier.
By Yankel Wajsbort
Australian and international kosher symbols.
January 24, 2022, 1:00 pm
Food fraud and kosher certification
The procedures employed by Kosher Australia and other reliable kosher authorities allow kosher consumers to have confidence in the foods they buy for their families.
By Yankel Wajsbort
November 14, 2021, 9:50 am
Sibling Rivalry
"While technically each kosher authority is a competitor, it is more like sibling rivalry..."
By Yankel Wajsbort
Photo: Peter Haskin
November 1, 2019, 7:00 am
A very kosher Coles is open
Coles' newly revamped Glenhuntly Road supermarket features an expanded array of kosher foods and services.
By AJN STAFF
Mashgiach Zalman Procel, Yankel Wajsbort, John Siriopoulos, Kosher Australia’s Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick and The AJN’s Yossi Aron.
October 25, 2019, 7:00 am
Super choice at supermarket
Coles' newly rebuilt Glenhuntly Road supermarket will feature an expanded array of kosher foods and services.
By AJN STAFF
Santiarium products, including Weet-Bix, are no longer approved by kosher agencies.
February 26, 2018, 10:06 am
Weet-Bix off the menu
By Joshua Levi
A conversion taking place. Photo: Edwardshtern/Dreamstime.
August 22, 2017, 12:01 am
‘Our converts are as kosher as yours’
HOSE in the position of authority must represent their constituents in accordance with applicable legal and ethical requirements. If that is not happening questions have to be asked and solutions have to be found. 
July 30, 2016, 12:01 am
Jalna to go kosher again
Jalna will reconsider its decision to forego kosher certification after an outpouring of concern from the community after last week's AJN article.
Community Kashrut logo.
April 21, 2016, 12:00 am
Kosher Australia: ‘CK is reliable’
SYDNEY’S newest hechsher, Community Kashrut (CK) has been listed as a reliable kashrut organisation by Melbourne’s largest kashrut organisation, Kosher Australia.
By Joshua Levi
Community Kashrut logo.
January 21, 2016, 12:00 am
CK thumbs up for Melbourne meat
SYDNEY’S second kosher hechsher is now fully operational and it has declared meat under the hechsher of Kosher Australia in Melbourne meets the most stringent level of kashrut.
By Joshua Levi
November 19, 2015, 12:00 am
Hechsher for Golden Circle
GOLDEN Circle products should be kosher again very soon ... in Sydney at least, but perhaps not in Melbourne. After failing to renew its kosher certification (hechsher) with Victoria’s Kosher Australia body last month, the company has now come to an agreement with the Kashrut Authority (KA) in NSW.
By Joshua Levi
26-5-15. Yankel Wajsbort, General Manager Kosher Australia holding the new kosher Cadbury Vegemite chocolate. Photo: Peter Haskin
May 28, 2015, 12:00 am
It’s chocolate, it’s Vegemite … it’s kosher!
By Evan Zlatkis
Coalition senator Cory Bernardi speaking during Senate question time at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. (AAP Image/Alan Porritt) NO ARCHIVING
May 21, 2015, 9:13 am
‘Kashrut probe not a threat’
By Gareth Narunsky
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