{"id":687,"date":"2010-10-12T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/10\/a-meaningless-change-in-israeli-kashrut.html"},"modified":"2010-10-12T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T18:57:00","slug":"a-meaningless-change-in-israeli-kashrut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theatheistrabbi\/2010\/10\/a-meaningless-change-in-israeli-kashrut.html","title":{"rendered":"A Meaningless Change In Israeli Kashrut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
One of the weirdest conversations I\u2019ve ever heard was at a family event where the Orthodox members of my ex-wife\u2019s family discussed kashrut (kosher food) in Israel.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Their consensus was that it was really, really difficult to keep kosher in Israel, even in Jerusalem.\u00a0 This, of course, was the exact opposite of my experience where it was virtually impossible to not keep kosher in Jerusalem.\u00a0 Just try finding an open restaurant in a Jewish neighborhood on Shabbat.\u00a0 They exist, but they are very well hidden.\u00a0 If you find one prepare to wait a long time to be seated.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Apparently the real problem is that many Orthodox Jews do not \u201chold by the Rabbinate.\u201d\u00a0 What this means in English is that a lot of Orthodox Jews do not trust the official state-sanctioned local rabbinical councils.\u00a0 So instead they look for the supervision of Badatz, the Haredi kashrut authority.\u00a0 This same Badatz is also the seat of power for the non-Zionist and anti-Zionist Haredim. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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The local city rabbinical councils, branches of the Chief Rabbinate, are notoriously corrupt.\u00a0 So now the Israeli government has decided to create a national kashrut supervising agency<\/span><\/a> under the Haredi-controlled Ministry of Religions.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s the really funny part.\u00a0 The Chief Rabbinate, its local religious councils and Ministry of Religions are actually simultaneously despised by and completely under the control of Badatz and its allies!\u00a0 They despise them because they operate under the framework of the supposedly secular state.\u00a0 They control them because it increases their power. \u00a0 So this new change is meaningless.\u00a0 It\u2019s also going to be expensive because of the brand new layer of Haredi patronage that will result.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I have no idea if my ex-wife and her family will now \u201chold by the Rabbinate\u201d or the Ministry, but thanks to this new bureaucracy, their lunch will be more expensive, if not more kosher.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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