r/JewsOfConscience • u/AutoModerator • Jul 31 '24

AAJ "Ask A Jew" Wednesday

It's everyone's favorite day of the week, "Ask A (Anti-Zionist) Jew" Wednesday! Ask whatever you want to know, within the sub rules, notably that this is not a debate sub and do not import drama from other subreddits. That aside, have fun! We love to dialogue with our non-Jewish siblings.

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u/Slow-Dragonfruit-932 Non-denominational Jul 31 '24

I take a daily glucosamine, its made from shell fish but very transformed. Would someone who keeps kosher be unable to eat this?

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u/Conscientious_Jew Post-Zionist Jul 31 '24

Not a Rabbi, but my religious parents (orthodox, not Haredim) won't eat it. Pretty sure kosher keeping people won't eat it.

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Jul 31 '24

Did you ask them?

I take certain vitamin pills that can't be found except with gelatin as a binder, but I do not eat them. I'm not in the habit of swallowing olives or other small foods whole, so it's kinda difficult to construe what I'm doing as eating.

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u/Conscientious_Jew Post-Zionist Jul 31 '24 edited Jul 31 '24

Yes. If they know that there something unkosher they won't eat it, doesn't matter how remote it is from its original form. They aren't too strict so they might not check in the first place.

I checked online and saw several Rabbis that say it's fine if the person needs it. I can share links if you need them (in Hebrew).