Will my Jewish neighbors eat cookies I bake?
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Anonymous
| I don't know how to ask this in any other way, but if I make your standard cookie like chocolate chip for a holiday party, would my Jewish neighbors eat it? Is there anything about them that's not kosher? I can go buy cookies from the Jewish bakery down the street to have options available for everyone if it is a problem. I just do not know anything about what eating kosher means and whether or not they could eat cookies made from butter, flour, eggs, and chocolate chips from a typical grocery store.. Trying to include everyone in our holiday party here. Are there any other cookie types they wouldn't eat and they I should avoid making? |
Anonymous
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This will only be an issue if your neighbors are extremely religious - in which case they won't eat anything that comes out of your kitchen because you don't keep a kosher kitchen.
For Jews who are not extremely religious, your cookies should be fine unless you make chocolate chip/bacon cookies. |
Anonymous
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If they keep kosher, probably not. I keep kosher and I just don't eat things outside my home unless they're package with kosher certification.
This keeps me from eating a lot of junk. |
Anonymous
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It really depends on how they practice. Most of our Jewish friends who would absolutely eat a homemade cookie (except for marshmallows, I can't think of a cookie ingredient that would be tref) and others who don't eat anything prepared in a non-kosher kitchen. If you've seen your neighbors eat food prepared outside their home by non-Jews, they will probably eat your cookies.
At the grocery store, you can look on the package and you'll see the kosher mark (https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/kosher-symbols-on-packaging/). |
Anonymous
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Your best bet will be to buy packaged kosher cookies and open them only once they are there.
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Anonymous
And put them on a paper plate because they are not kosher once you put them on your China or treaters that haven’t been kashered. |
Anonymous
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As other have said it depends on their level of observance. Even my conservative Rabbi will eat cookies from my own non kosher restaurant.
I would just ask. You can ask "are you kosher" or "do you have any dietary restrictions". If they say they are kosher and are happy to attend but won't eat, you can get a package of cookies that are labeled kosher and serve them in their original package (don't plate them). |
Anonymous
| Its very thoughtful of you to consider what your neighbors will be comfortable with. You should ask them. I would appreciate you in my neighborhood! |
Anonymous
| Jewish here, not kosher, please bring me all your cookies. |
Anonymous
| Do you know they keep kosher? The majority of Jews do not. |
Anonymous
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I don't keep kosher, so I would eat them. My parents keep kosher and would not.
Not keeping kosher is one way to avoid your parents always staying with you when they visit! 
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Anonymous
| I don't keep kosher but wouldn't eat anything you made in your house if you have cats or don't have the same cleanliness levels I do. |
Anonymous
| The majority of Jews here do not keep kosher. I am Jewish and would welcome your cookies. I bake and cook for many Jewish friends and relatives and I am not kosher. I honestly don’t even think to ask unless I have reason to suspect they are very observant. Some clues are they walk to services on Friday night and Saturday and don’t participate in outside activities on Shabbat or they have children who attend a Jewish Day School. Not that that’s a foolproof way to determine as some families send their kids to Jewish Day School and don’t keep kosher. |
Anonymous
OP here: I don't know if they keep kosher, but I know the husband drinks craft beers. Is that any insight? |
Anonymous
Can I just ask why you think they *might* keep kosher? Just because they are Jewish - or did they say something about being very observant? |