Kashrut

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Kashrut (also kashruth or kashrus, Hebrew: כַּשְׁרוּת) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that religiously observant Jews are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish religious law. Foods that may be consumed are deemed kosher ( in English, Yiddish: כּשר), from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the term that in Sephardi or Modern Hebrew is pronounced kashér (כָּשֵׁר), meaning "fit" (in this context, "fit for consumption"). Food that may not be consumed is deemed treif ( in English, Yiddish: טרײף), also spelled treyf (Yiddish: טריף). In case of objects the opposite of kosher is pasúl ( in English, Yiddish: פָּסוּל). Although the details of the laws of kashrut are numerous and complex, they rest on a few basic principles: Only certain types of mammals, birds, and fish, meeting specific criteria are kosher; the consumption of the flesh of any animals that do not meet these criteria, such as pork, frogs, and shellfish, is forbidden, except for locusts...

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