On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:48:21PM -0500, Rich, Joel wrote: : IIRC on one of the recent OU webcasts the statement was made that the : cultured item takes on the halachic characteristics of whatever it was : cultured on. And to nastily jump topics... and a child has the Jewishness of the surrogate mother, not the genetic mother? Tir'u baTov! -Micha