**Summer Schedule 5767/2007 with Rabbi Eli Mansour at the Lawrence Ave. Synagogue in Deal, NJ**
Sundays 7:00 AM Shaharit
8:00 AM Daf Yomi
Mon-Thurs 5:45 AM Shaharit
6:30 AM Daf Yomi
Friday 6:30 AM Daf Yomi
7:45 AM Shaharit
8:30 AM Parasha Insights
11:30 AM Ladies Class
5:40 PM Daf Yomi
Shabbat 6:45 AM Shaharit
9:00 AM Seudat Shabbat with Parasha Discussion
1½ Hours Before Minha- Parasha Thoughts
Seudat Shelishi Lessons from The Parasha
** Important Note- Daf Yomi and Shaharit will continue in Brooklyn throughout the summer at Cong. Bet Yaakob in Har HaLebanon (2nd Floor Midrash), with Rabbi Saban, coinciding with times above. Rabbi Mansour will be live via teleconference teaching the Daf.
Today's Halacha...
A number of years ago, a question arose regarding the status of dairy tuna fish. Tuna companies began adding to the fish a certain protein that had the effect of keeping water absorbed in the tuna after the water is drained from the can. They did this in order to increase the net weight of the tuna, which would then allow them to charge a higher price. (It was described on the label as a taste enhancer so as not to expose the sinister motives.) While some of the proteins were produced from soy, others were made from milk.
Ultimately, federal regulations were enacted that forbade this scheme, and the majority of tuna sold in today's market does not contain these added proteins. Still, the question arises as to the Halachic status of tuna containing dairy proteins.
Two problems are involved regarding dairy tuna. Firstly, those who make a point of drinking only Chalav Yisrael (milk produced by a Jew or under a Jew's supervision) must not eat this tuna, since it is unlikely that the proteins were produced from Chalav Yisrael. Furthermore, Sepharadim who, as Chacham Ovadia Yosef rules in Halichot Olam, Helek 7, page 20, follow the position of the Beit Yosef forbidding the consumption of fish with milk must not partake of dairy tuna.
Therefore, one should ascertain when purchasing tuna fish that the tuna is parve, and is not labeled "dairy." This Halacha, I heard directly from Hacham Baruch Ben-Haim Z"L.
