Comments on: Coming Soon In Israel – Kashrus Police!

By: interjection

interjection — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 05:20:18 +0000

Enforce a Halacha? I thought this government only wants to shmad.

By: aka pooka

aka pooka — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:51:15 +0000

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By: Keeper of the Keys

Keeper of the Keys — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:44:19 +0000

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When the unit publishes its periodic reports to the public, it states a business lacks proper kashrus but it does not detail if it truly has no supervision or simply lacks local rabbinate supervision, once again a violation of the law, not halacha.
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You neglect to mention that most often a store that has only a private hashgaga has some teuda from a guy who never comes to inspect and just prints a nice “mehadrin” teuda that looks nice but if you take the time to check you’ll find that either no-one knows the guy or the signee is known to be a fraud… (see lots of deli/burger places in Jerusalem).

By: akuperma

akuperma — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:46:00 +0000

You deleted the last line of the article and made it seem like this was about improving kashrus. The line you left out was “Perhaps the new kashrus police will generate additional state revenue in the form of fines but it is unlikely the new force will improve adherence to kashrus halachos around the country.”

The initiative is designed to put “private” (i.e. hareidi) hecksherim out of business. It is part of a push by the Dati Leumi camp to crack down on hareidim, and to eliminate the problem caused by strict and reliable hecksherim competing with “liberal” government hecksherim.