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1

Of Kosher Crabs
And Mideast Woes

GARY ROSENBLATT

Editor

T

he kosher food in-
dustry in this country
is becoming an in-
creasingly big business, with
some 16,000 products now
certified kosher and annual
sales of up to $1.5 billion.
Among the hot items noted
in Martin Friedman's "New
Product Watch" column in
the Jan. 11 issue of Adweek
are three kosher shellfish
substitutes under the
Mendel's Haymish label: It's
Not Shrimp, It's Not Crab and
It's Not Lobster. They are
each pre-cooked and ready to
eat.
A big seller is Bernie's East
Bagel Dogs, dough-wrapped
kosher franks available in
plain, toasted onion and
sesame seed varieties from
Bernan Foods of Newark, N.J.
Mrs. Weinberg's, a leader in
the kosher frozen food in-
dustry, is offering six new
baked goods, including babka
and rugalach. And Barat's
Nouvelle Tofu Chocolate uses
tofu to replace milk in
chocolate and unrefined,
granulated cane juice as a
substitute for refined white
sugar so the candy is non-
dairy and cholesterol-free.
An increasing number of
Israeli-produced foods are
reaching U.S. supermarkets,
including Hod Lavan Turkey
products and Carmel St.
Peter's Fish.
Many of these items were
introduced at recent Kosher
Expos in New York and
Miami.
According to one expert,
"although there are six
million people in the United
States purchasing kosher
food, only 1.5 million are
kosher-observant Jews. The
remainder are Moslems,
Seventh-Day Aventists,
vegetarians and people in-
terested in higher quality
foods without additives and
preservatives."

Hertzberg Is
Pessimistic

Arthur Hertzberg assesses
the chances for peace in the
Mideast in an essay in the
February 4 issue of The New
York Review of Books, and he
suggests that one of the un-
fortunate results of the recent
Arab uprisings in Gaza and
the West Bank is that
moderates in Israel are being
pushed closer to "the hard
line-nationalist camp." The
rabbi and scholar notes that
"once Israel returns to 'nor-

mai, i.e. to a situation in
which scattered acts of vio-
lence are the accepted norm,
it is highly unlikely that the
more moderate Israeli politi-
cal leaders will move any
more boldly than they have
before?'
The Catch-22 for moderate
leaders, he says, is that they
are trapped into "national
unity" by Arab violence, but
they also prefer not to fight
both the Likud and each
other when the pressure is off.
The Palestinians are no
more united than the Israelis,
according to Hertzberg, who
points out that King Hussein
of Jordan is fearful of, and op-
posed to, a Palestinian state
on the West Bank and Gaza.
The Palestinians are only
united in their war with
Israel but cannot agree on a
political situation.
"The tragic truth is that
both Israel and the Palestin-
ians have fewer problems
with violence than they have

An increasing
number of Israeli-
produced foods
are reaching U.S.
supermarkets,
including Hod
Lavan Twrkey
products and
Carmel St. Peter's
Fish.

with peace," writes Hertzberg.
"The inner politics of both
camps have been conditioned
by at least two generations of
resisting and fighting. The
cycle of violent protest fol-
lowed by repression may be-
come more frequent."
As the conflict increasingly
shifts from secular na-
tionalists to religious ex-
tremists, on both the Arab
and Israeli sides, the parties
concerned are convinced that
their best short-run interest
is to do nothing. "Everyone
with whom I have talked in
the past few years about the
Middle East," writes Hertz-
berg, "agrees that stalemate
leads to disaster, but no one
seems to have summoned up
the political will to say that
a settlement can no longer be
postponed. After each visit to
the Middle East, I return
more pessimistic.
"Prophets of gloom rarely
like the words they utter." he
concludes, "They feel com-
pelled to describe a despair-
ing vision in the hope that
someone will act to prove
them wrong."

