Kashrut

Jewish dietary laws

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).

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