LUNCH

Lunch at Rashi

Starting in fall 2025, a hot and healthy lunch made in-house at Rashi each and every day will be included in tuition!

In partnership with our new outsourced food vendor, CulinArt, children will be choosing a kosher-style meal on a daily basis that includes a variety of choices, such as a hot entree option, sandwich of the day, and salad bar (Example Weekly Menu).

Rashi students will be dining in our remodeled communal dining space, with construction planned for summer 2025. Both the Kol-lab: Rashi’s Innovation Lab and the communal dining space will have their own dedicated space. The Kol-lab will enjoy new lighting, increased electrical capacity, and furniture that will provide our STEAM educators with increased flexibility to make the best use of their space. Our communal dining space will provide our students a place to enjoy lunch with their classmates and practice those important social emotional skills that come with sharing a meal with others.

Kosher (Kashrut) Policy

Rashi is a kosher–style facility. It is our hope that a Rashi education helps students cultivate a personal understanding of Judaism and make decisions about how to incorporate Jewish practice into their lives. Additionally, Rashi works diligently to create an atmosphere of community in which people of any background or religious observance level feel respected and comfortable.

Nowhere is this more evident than in our community kashrut policy. The kashrut policy strives to balance a healthy respect for diversity and personal choice with a desire to share and break bread together as a community. If you have any questions about kashrut at Rashi, please don’t hesitate to contact Rabbi Sharon Clevenger (sclevenger@rashi.org).

In order to understand the rules governing the food that is brought into the school, it is important to understand certain terms and ideas about kashrut in general. The origins of the laws come from the Torah and have been expanded, debated, and changed over time.

There are certain foods that are not permissible in Jewish law and at Rashi:

• Items containing foods that come from pigs (bacon, ham, pepperoni, sausage, etc.);
• Seafood that doesn’t have fins and scales (lobster, shrimp, scallops, clams, etc.).

Rashi observes the Jewish law that teaches not to mix meat and dairy dishes:

• Meat includes poultry and beef (but not fish);
• Dairy is anything that contains even a drop of dairy;
• Items that don’t contain any meat or dairy elements are known as pareve and have a neutral place in meals: they can be mixed with either meat or dairy items.