THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Kosher Holiday Food Price Monitor Helps Lower Costs
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1983, JTA, Inc.)
The director of an agency
created to lead a battle in
the greater New York area
against high prices for
kosher foods, with particu-
lar attention to sharp price
increases before the High
Holy Days and Passover,
has asserted there is evi-
dence that increased public
attention to the problem has
helped to moderate those
increases.
But Rabbi Saul Eisner,
executive vice president of
the Rabbinical Alliance of
America (RAA), an organ-
ization of Orthodox rabbis,
and administrator of the
RAA's Kosher Consumer
Alliance (KCA), also said
that while some gains had
been made in that struggle,
"there is still a long way to
go."
There are two other
Jewish organizations de-
veloped to help protect the
observant consumer
against the indisputable
large price boosts, espe-
cially before the two holi-
days. They are the Kashrut
Protective Commission of
Young Israel, an associa-
tion of Orthodox congrega-
tions, which was organized
in January 1982, and the
Subcommittee on Kosher
Food of the Commission on
Religious Affairs of the New
York Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies, announced
in October 1982.
Eisner said he believed
his agency was the only
one in the United States
waging a vigorous and
persistent public battle
against what he called
"the triumvirate" — the
producers, distributors
and retailers of kosher
products.
Rabbi Ephraim Sturm,
executive vice president of
the National Council of
Young Israel, reported re-
cently that the Young Israel
agency concentrates on con-
sumer education through
its monthly "Viewpoint."
The most recent activity of
the Federation sub-
committee was issuance of a
summary of testimony by
its chairman, Joseph Kap-
lan, before a. March 3 joint
State Senate-Assembly
hearing in New York City
on the problem.
Kaplan told the joint
hearing that there was con-
tinued exploitation of
Jewish customers, particu-
larly needy Jews, in
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Passover food pricing. He
said "this practice will, as in
the past, cause untold hard-
ship to poor, old and
middle-class Jews."
He said his agency had
met with manufacturers of
kosher food and with meat
and poultry suppliers on the
problem, and that it would
continue to monitor the
situation "to alleviate the
plight of harried consumers
who are finding it increas-
ingly difficult to make ends
meet."
Eisner said that the dif-
ference in cost at the
slaughter-house is about
10 cents per pound be-
tween kosher and non-
kosher meat and poultry.
He said there was no
legitimate reason for
kosher meats and poultry
to be priced three times
as much as prices for
non-kosher meat and
poultry at the retail level.
In its advertising the
KCA calls on consumers to
complain to kosher butcher
shops and to chain store
managers about unwar-
ranted price increases, par-
ticularly before Passover,
and to do their best to get
along without overpriced
Passover products.
Eisner said it was dif-
ficult to measure specific re-
sults as stemming from
KCA advertising. On
March 11, he said, the KCA
appealed in an ad to the
major matzo manufactur-
ers, urging them to offer a
30-cent-a-pound discount
on Passover matzo to senior
citizens and food stamp us-
ers. A few days later, Eisner
said, some of the supermar-
ket chains advertised price
cuts for a five-pound box of
matzo from $4.99 to $3.99.
He said he felt there had
been a recent trend toward
modification of price hikes
by members of the "trium-
virate" and that he believed
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