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anyway. AI Rosenberg may have
been exaggerating. The story on
butchers gave several other rea-
sons for the dwindling number of
shops.
Still, one thread runs through
all these incidents: Suspicion of
others and the rise of "stricter-
than-thou" standards of kashrut
is killing the kosher food business
here.
Those who refuse to patronize
a Vaad-supervised establish-
ment because its new Vaad-su-
pervised butcher is supposedly
"less kosher" than its previously
Vaad-supervised butcher are
asserting nothing less than that
the local Council is inadequate.
According to Al Rosenberg,
at least some members of the
Vaad wouldn't eat at his restau-
rant, which they supervised. If
his story is true, then Council
hashgacha wasn't good enough
for the Council members them-
selves.
If you don't accept Mr. Rosen-
berg's version, consider the un-
deniable fact of the Vaad rule that
only the observant may now ap-
ply for supervision of a new butch-
er shop. Never mind how to define
"observant"; we know that some
local butchers don't meet the
requirement and keep their
hashgacha only by being "grand-
fathered."
Now, if these same people could
not get a heksher today, then ac-
cording to the Vaad's own stan-
dard, their kashrut must be
somehow inadequate. Thus you
have the anomaly of the Council
of Orthodox Rabbis supervising
establishments they do not them-
selves trust.
I disagree with many of the
Council's rulings because I find
them too strict. And for that rea-
son, I know that when they say a
product or establishment is
kosher, I have no reason to doubt
it. I trust them.
But in any case, unless you, the
shomer kashrut, are willing to
grow or raise everything you eat,
you have to trust others to pro-
vide kosher food for you. If you
don't accept the supervision of the
city's most prominent rabbonim
— if they don't accept it them-
selves — whom will you accept?
And how can the community hope
to keep a restaurant going when
virtually nobody is "kosher
enough"?
Elliott Shevin
Oak Park
A Prayer
For `The News'
This letter is in response to your
smarmy editorial of March 7, ti-
tled "A Prayer For Alabama." I
would like to propose an alterna-
tive prayer, which I shall rever-
ently call "A Prayer for The
Jewish News."
"May The Jewish News be
granted the wisdom to realize the
silliness of some of its ultraliber-
al positions and how much dam-
age they could cause to the Jewish
community."
Why does The Jewish News
find the Ten Commandments,
one of the foundations of Western
civilization which expresses val-
ues held by most people around
the globe, an offensive document
when it is displayed in a court-
room? This is carrying separation
of church and state to absurd ex-
tremes.
Dr. Herschel L. Schlussel
Garden City
High Quality,
Standards Needed
It comes as no surprise to any-
body who both eats kosher and
travels to other cities that Detroit
cannot sustain a full-service
kosher restaurant ("Thing Of The
Past?" March 7).
The Detroit community will not
frequent a restaurant (nor will
the gentile community) that
serves lousy food in an unap-
pealing environment. Jews in oth-
er major metropolitan areas have
enjoyed the kosher fare at restau-
rants that have retained their ap-
peal to the entire community for
generations because of the con-
sistently high quality and cre-
ativity of the fare, the cleanliness
and charm of the setting and the
competence of the waitstaff.
Sadly, none of the recent at-
tempts by local kosher "restau-
rateurs" has come close to
meeting these standards. It also
disturbs us that Rabbi Goldberg
would presume that the Jewish
community is "tired" and prefers
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going home each night rather
than going out to a restaurant.
Perhaps this is true on occasion,
but he and I must be a part of two
very different Jewish communi-
ties.
The Jews I know are energetic
and hard-working men and
women who thirst for a comfort-
able place to go and meet family
and friends while enjoying ex- (-'
ceptional food and drink. The ....11
prospect of this place being kosher
would be at best a great attrac-
tion and at worst, irrelevant.