Who decided lox and cream cheese is Kosher?

Believe it or not, there is indeed discussion whether this innocuous-seeming staple of Sunday morning post-prayer brunches is ok for consumption under the kosher dietary laws. Now, there is nothing inherently un-kosher in either lox or cream cheese (as long as no non-kosher ingredients were used in their manufacture). read more

Actually funny thing is; not everyone holds lox and cream cheese together are kosher. There are those (some Hasidim, and Yerushalmis, and Sephardim who will not eat fish and milk products together. So the symbol of Jewish food is not always kosher. read more

So far, our precious lox and cream cheese is safe. But Rabbi Yosef Karo (1488-1575)4 mentions a health restriction concerning eating fish and milk as well. The subsequent commentaries, including Rabbi Moshe Isserles (1520-1572),5 argue that this statement of Rabbi Yosef Karo must be an error, because there is neither Talmudic basis nor any other rabbinical precedent for prohibiting milk and fish. read more

Actually funny thing is; not everyone holds lox and cream cheese together are kosher. There are those (some Hasidim, and Yerushalmis, and Sephardim who will not eat fish and milk products together. read more

So far, our precious lox and cream cheese is safe. But Rabbi Yosef Karo (1488-1575)4 mentions a health restriction concerning eating fish and milk as well. read more

*They*, not my parents (or my dad's mother) were the bagel eaters, the lox eaters, the bagel-with-cream-cheese-and-lox eaters. The Ashkenazic synagogue I went to sent everyone home for meals after b'nai mitzvot, Simchat Torah, etc.; the Sephardic synagogue my grandparents went to had lavish spreads of smoked fish (multiple types), bagels, cream cheese, and butter. read more