Eretz Yisroel’s largest bakery, Angel’s Bakery, warned Monday that the major bakeries will not be baking challah this week because of a pricing dispute with the government – reported HERE on YW. The major bakeries stopped producing simple bread loaves Monday morning because the bakeries are claiming that they lost millions of dollars last month.
Arutz Sheva explains: Basic bread products are under price controls, and the government has not responded to the bakeries’ demand for higher prices following another round of increases in the world price of flour. A similar dispute shut down production of less expensive breads earlier this year until the government agreed to raise the price and reimburse weaker sectors in the economy.
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Socialism at its best…. bread lines.
Nothing like socialism!
For a Jewish bakery that stops making Shabbos Challos because of a dispute with the Israeli government, the name Angel is Leshon Sagi Nahor (a euphemism).
Produce rises so prices have to too.
Angels does not stand for angelic behavior and angelic lifestyle and tzedakah for all.
nebach we will have to use berman`s bakery for a week
Feif Un
try going out and working, so that you could afford it.
WHAT ABOUT THOSE OF US THAT ARE WORKING?
DO WE GET A RAISE EVERY TIME BREAD GOES UP?
Feif Un:
Reb Chaim Kanievsky, Reb Elyashiv, Reb Shteinman, shlita, etc. are probably on the list of people who need subsidized bread. Should they get a job? Can you see Reb Shteinman driving a truck or Reb Michel Yehuda selling chickens???
Klal Yisroel needs Torah too, to exist!
People, didn’t you hear that wheat prices are rising ALL OVER THE WORLD? So are all other basic ingredients, such as crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, soys, corn, aluminum, and most other things. This inflationary environment is an international problem, and why should any company operate at a loss? Would you ask Walmart to keep their same low prices if their cost of goods doubles? Trust me, they will not operate at a loss. And yes, wages usually do not keep up with such inflation in goods and services. Unfair? No, economics 101, unfortunately.
Cmon Feif, Times change. We need The Gedolim learning. They’re doing their hishtadlus:)
And who are we to judge the gedolim? (I’m guessing that) The Gedolim know so much more torah than any of us; they know what they’re doing.
Have a wonderful day:)
I reiterate my comment (no. 3) above. After making good profits for years, it is bad enough that they stop baking regular bread (a necessity), but now Shabbos Challah (a Mitzvah) too!
Avraham, you cannot be serious. The business used to make profit (why else would have they been IN business?). They cannot make profit any longer, and for an indefinite period of time. So they should be baking your bread and challa at a loss to themselves? Enlighten me where the mitzva is in THAT???
are you willinmg to workk for nothing? rethen whjy should ma’afiyat angel?
the chofetz chaim had a grocery store (check the obituary in the ny times), if necessary, i’m sure rav elyashiv and rav shteinman would do likewise.
as for people stealing from kollelim, thats because they dont adequately supervise and / or they have no $ controls and / or they purposely (or unpurposely) tolerate it. next time you write a check to a kollel (i’m sure ma’afiyat angel sends a check regularly to their appropriate kollel) find out which of the three alternatives that kollel does. and dont rely on so and so is oyur rosh yeshiva! (of course, they wont tell you — they’ll tell you to get lost. well, thats part of the problem.)
Feif:
I agree with what you said about “fakers” and that when working people are put into a lower class, it’s wrong. Just look at the Shevatim: Yissachar and Zevulun were blessed by Yaakov that Yissachar (I think) would support Zevulun so in order so that they could learn without worry. So obviously, working is a good thing too. So the conclusion is:
“learning people” should learn and “working people” should work. If someone can’t learn for his sedarim, then maybe learning full time is just not for him. And obviously a working person must also be kovea itim latora.
🙂