Kosher foods for Hanukkah follow the usual kashrut rules. The holiday adds customs for oil-fried latkes and sufganiyot and for dairy dishes, but no new laws. Check the hechsher on processed items.

Yes, bonito is kosher. It has fins and scales, and the OU lists the bonito genus with the kosher tunas and mackerels. Flakes, cans, and broths still need a hechsher.

Kosher vs halal: both ban pork and require ritual slaughter, but alcohol, meat and dairy, and seafood differ. A kosher label does not make food halal.

Yes, bream is generally kosher. Freshwater bream and sea bream both have fins and removable scales, though Star-K bars bream and porgy over Anisakis worms, except farm-raised sea bream.

A mashgiach is the kosher supervisor who checks that a food business follows kosher law. See what the OU and cRc say the job involves, from restaurant keys to fish skinning.

Yes, wahoo is kosher. It’s a mackerel-family fish with fins and small scales, and Chabad.org and the OU-published Atz fish list both say so. Here’s how to confirm the species and the cut.

Pareve means a kosher food is neither meat nor dairy, so it can be eaten with either. Fish, eggs, and produce qualify. Here is what the OU says and how to read the labels.

No, gar fish is not kosher. Its hard, interlocking ganoid scales can’t be removed without tearing the skin, the same issue that makes sturgeon and paddlefish non-kosher too.

Sukkot kosher foods follow ordinary kashrut law. Here’s the Yom Tov cooking rule that does change, the traditional stuffed dishes and fish, and which Sukkot foods actually need a hechsher.

Yes, flathead is kosher. It has fins and removable ctenoid and cycloid scales, and the Kashrut Authority in Sydney lists it, but don’t confuse it with the non-kosher flathead catfish.