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, אייר תשע”ב May 2012

Welcome to the Kibbutz Lavi Hotel!

It is our pleasure to host you. Our hotel is noted for its very strict high-level Kashruth which is supervised by Rabbi Joseph Chaim Rosenblatt, Rabbi of the Lower Galilee. Details follow.
INFORMATION CONCERNING THE OBSERVANCE OF KASHRUT

IN LAVI KIBBUTZ HOTEL

1. We have an exclusively Jewish kitchen staff, which consists mainly of observant, G-D fearing “Shomer Shabbat” Jews.

2. All the products and ingredients, with the exception of poultry, meat, and dairy products, have one of three hechshers: Eda Charedit, Rabbi Rubin, Rabbi Landau.

3. All leafy vegetables are insect-free products with Eda Charedit / Rubin Hechsher. They undergo an additional inspection and washing, according to Badatz instructions.

4. All dairy products are under Mehadrin supervision, including that of the Mehadrin committee of Tnuva led by Rabbi Witman. (Some of the products are made locally with the above Mehadrin hechsher.)

5. Bread and rolls are supplied by bakeries under the supervision of Badatz Eda Charedit, Rav Rubin & Rav Landau.

6. Products baked in our own kitchen – Flour is sifted by a machine which meets the standards of the most meticulous kashrut requirements and challa is set aside as required.

7.We have a special mashgiach on the premises to supervise the meticulous inspection of all products entering the kitchen – including legumes, nuts and all whole condiments.

8. The meat served in the Hotel is imported with Chalak Mehadrin hechsher of the Chief Rabbinate, in accordance with the severe restrictions of Maran Bet Yoseph.

Poultry products are from the “Off Tov” abbatoir, under the complete supervision of Rabbi A.D. Auerbach of Tiberias / Fleish Mehadrin confirmed by the Hotel Rabbis.

9 .One may order in advance meat and poultry products with a special hechsher – one of three (Eda Charedit, Rav Landa, or Rav Rubin) to be determined by the hotel in accordance with availability. These products are prepared in a special area of the kitchen with ovens and all kitchen utensils set aside and marked for use exclusively with the above hechshers.

10. It is not permitted to bring food or beverages from outside the hotel to the hotel restaurant & the bar area .

11. Any questions should be directed to the Hotel Mashgiach, Yakov Chayun, tel. 050-3231174

If the FAA would remove their certification from an airline, would you still fly it? Would you say it is “politics”/”money”/”phone the airline and rely on them”/”a frum airline” ?

Have any of you spoken to the Rabbonim involved?

Perhaps do some research before you post.

I have spoken to the Rabbonim, and would advise anyone who needs to know to speak to them; they are working in tandem on this issue, which has many wider complexities involved.

I would also add that the concerns in any Hotel kitchen are immense, (Shmiras Shabbos amoungst them), and without a clear agreement between the Rabbanim and the hotel staff, I do not understand how anyone can blithly say “politics etc.” I have clearly seen in the past Chilul Shabbos happening in a (different) hotel, and when I spoke to the mashgiach there, found that he was a) unaware and b) ignorant of the Halocho!

The bottom line is; DON’T BE A FOOL! Kashrus is complex and easy to get wrong, there is no excuse on vacation!

For any of a variety of reasons a certain hashgacha will pull out, and another one (that may have ALREADY been there too) comes in, or remains in.

People should NOT be choshaid b’KASHAIRIM (pun INTENDED).

Certainly people SHOULD be careful and SHOULD check things out, but should NOT jump to conclusions and say lashon harah like the above commenter who said “(Lavi)seems not to take kashrut seriously as do many non- or not very- religious places”.
What terrible motzei shaim ra.

There are typos, such as “Person close to the rav are” – Is this one person, or several people. Who are they? What are the vague issues that have been alluded to?

I suggest this article is removed as it doesn’t say anything.