Reply To: Awkward kashrus situation – advice?

I fail to understand why the opening poster was afraid to answer the campus Orthodox rabbi’s question truthfully. Surely the rabbi knows that there are broad ranges of opinion on kashrus and many different ways that frum Jews observe kashus. Her devious answer, in its way, is more insulting than a truthful answer, as it implies that the rabbi lacks the ability to understand her opinion and her practice of kashrus. And, of course, it only postpones the time when the opening poster has to come clean with the rabbi, as, sooner or later, he will invite the opening poster to his home for a Shabbos or chag meal. A truthful answer, if expressed sensibly and courteously, should not be offensive to the rabbi, or any other frum Jew.