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We are unable to certify any individual or establishment that we do not fully trust. The criteria that we use are both objective and subjec- tive. Community history with any individual, ob- viously, plays an important role as well." The Va'ad did not elab- orate on the history of its re- lationship with Mr. Cohen. Mr. Cohen said he spoke to the Va'ad about receiving certification in August 1990 and was told he would have to submit to inspections of his family and home to make sure he was abiding by Or- thodox observances — in- cluding the keeping of the Sabbath. The Va'ad also would have required a six-month period of full supervision of the but- cher, he said. Normal super- vision consists of occasional, sometimes daily, inspections by trained rabbis. Michigan's Department of Agriculture Food Division has no comment on Mr. Cohen's complaint, saying church-state separation pro- hibits them from making policy on a religious issue. In 1966, the state passed a law saying " 'kosher' means prepared or processed in ac- cordance with Orthodox Hebrew religious re- quirements sanctioned by a recognized Orthodox rab- binical council." The law does not say which councils are "recognized." However, state agriculture officials say that as long as a butcher sells only kosher- certified meat, his store can be considered kosher. The Va'ad disagrees. It now re- quires the store to be moni- tored and the owner subscribe to Orthodox obser- vances and belong to an Or- thodox syngagogue. "I just couldn't abide by their decision," Mr. Cohen said. "The decision, as far as I'm concerned, is based en- tirely on discrimination." Mr. Cohen said the stipulation on Orthodoxy is not universally applied. Several non-Orthodox but- chers were in business prior to the Va'ad's 1974 rule bar- ring non-Orthodox butchers. Because of a "grandfather" clause in the Va'ad's re- quirement, these butchers continue to do business with Va'ad certification. Plus, Mr. Cohen said, three Farmer Jack stores in West Bloomfield, Oak Park and Southfield operate kosher butcher shops even though the supermarket's principal owner — A&P Supermarkets — is majority owned by the Tengelmann Group, a German company. "As long as Farmer Jack has supervision, why shouldn't I have supervi- sion?" he said. The Va'ad said Farmer Jack's kosher butchers are some of the "most reliable in the country . . . The nature of the operation itself is very conducive to our supervision and they are extremely co- operative." Mr. Cohen has owned and managed his store, which was known as New Orleans Kosher Meat and Poultry while in Southfield, since 1987. The store was previously owned and managed by Mr. Cohen's father, Alan. The Va'ad supervised the store until 1982, when it required that "As long as Farmer Jack has supervision, why shouldn't I have supervision?" Michael Cohen all kosher meat be soaked and salted, or kashered. Mr. Cohen kashers meat on re- quest, but says that raises the cost of the meat by at least 10 percent. From 1985 until May 1990, Alan and then Michael Cohen had the store moni- tored by Rabbi Jack Goldman; this monitoring ended, they said, over a business dispute. Since May 1990, the store has been without supervision. Experts in kashrut say the Va'ad's contention — that Orthodox butchers are spiri- tually more trustworthy — is essentially correct, although it is not applied equally. "Circumstance, to a cer- tain extent, colors the dic- tates of the community," said Rabbi Tzvi Rosen of Baltimore's Va'ad Hakashrus. Rabbi Rosen served recently in the Va'ad for St. Louis' Jewish com- munity, which did not re- quire butchers to be Or- thodox. A butcher's spiritual credibility, he said, is "inextricably linked" to the kashrut of the meat. "If you are not shomer Shabbat (keeper of the Sabbath), in the eyes of Halacha (Jewish law), you do not enjoy credibility — we're talking about halachic credibility," Rabbi Rosen said. ❑