A company that makes cookies has a kosher hechsher. During Christmas season, the same cookies are repackaged as Christmas cookies. Can a Jew eat them in good conscience?

I would like to add to your question with this:

What about kosher food in general that is made to taste like non kosher food?

For example Fake Shrimp, and here's some information on that, http://www.kosherblog.net/category/tastes-like-treyf/

What about "Fake Bacon bits" too?

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Originally posted by Sam-:
I would like to add to your question with this:

What about kosher food in general that is made to taste like non kosher food?

For example Fake Shrimp, and here's some information on that, http://www.kosherblog.net/category/tastes-like-treyf/

What about "Fake Bacon bits" too?

Sam-

Baruch Hashem,I have a new grandson named Samuel Jacob.

I have a friend who is an Orthodox rabbi and he kasherizes places. He kasherized a vegetarian chinese restaurant and I have eaten there before and they have fake sweet and sour pork. So I think this is all O.K.

I buy vegetarian sausage with a heksher on it. Rabbi's wouldn't put a heksher on things if they weren't permitted, would they?

But the real question is can you eat Xmas cookies and fake shrimp in good concsience. If a candy cane had a heksher on it, couldn't you eat it since they are shaped like a J and J could stand for Jewish. But I don't know what xmas cookies or fake shrimp would stand for.

Raybin,
J could stand for Jesus too.

Some hechsherim are good, and others are "so so". Once a rav in this area started his own hechsher that first showed up on ranch dressing. Of course no one could recognize it and when they heard whose it was, no one could remember who this rav was.

Don't forget that hechsherim are for sale. You can't trust any hechsher for which you don't have some knowledge who is involved. Do you recall the recent treif scandal in Monsey? The mashgiach was a big rav in the community and the butcherstore owner was a very machmir Jew in the community. And he was feeding everyone trief. Whew! Oy! (that's my Ashkenaz-ism)
Moshe