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Appetizers:
• Gefilte Fish
• Mushroom Barley Soup
• Roasted Tomato Bisque Soup
• Chicken Soup - 1/2 gal
• Matzoh Balls
• Vegetarian Chopped Liver

$ 3.95/serving
$ 8.50/1/2 gallon
$8.50/1/2 gallon
$ 8.50/1/2 gallon
$ .79/each
$ 7.99/pound

Entrees:
• Herb Crusted Chicken Breast
• Half Roasted Chicken
• Sweet & Sour Salmon
• Prime Rib
• Stuffed Cabbage
• Whole Turkey with Stuffing (serves 12-14)

$ 8.99/each
$ 6.99/each
$ 9.49/serving
$ 10.50/serving
$3.99/each
$ 59.00 each

Side Dishes:
• Duchesse Potato
• Potato Kugel (serves 4-6)
• Apple Sauce Kugel (serves 4-6)
• Baked Green Beans with Onions
• Farfel with Wild Mushrooms
• Kishke

$ 1.79/each
$6.49/each
$ 6.99/each
$ 5.99/pint
$ 5.99/pint
$ 1.79 each

Desserts:
• Open-Faced Apple Tart (serves 14-16)
• Tiramisu Torte (serves 12-14)
• Banana/Chocolate Cake (serves 12-14)
• Brownie Fudge Cake (serves 12-14)

$ 26.00/each
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The Strangest Harvest

Biblical prohibition on farming land
makes its way into modern politics.

GIL SEDAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Jerusalem
srael's Sephardi chief rabbi was
quaking with emotion. In a
meeting with President Moshe
Katsav two weeks ago, Eliyahu
Bakshi-Doron said, "I don't want to
resign, but I am afraid they will
excommunicate me."
The chief rabbi was explaining why
he was buckling to pressure from the
fervently Orthodox, or haredi, com-
munity regarding an issue that
springs from the Torah.
At issue were the biblical injunc-
tions regarding the laws of shemita,
which holds that every seven years
farmers in Israel must allow the land
to lie fallow for an entire year.
The injunctions raise obvious eco-
nomic problems for religious farmers,
who find themselves unemployed for
a year. Those who observe the laws of
shemita, which will be in effect when
the new Hebrew year, 5761, begins
later this month, refrain from buying
local agricultural products.

I

and work during the sabbatical year,
the haredi newspaper Yated Neeman
leaked threats that he would be
excommunicated. He and his family
were also threatened with ostracism,
which would have meant that no
member of the haredi community
could have contact with them.

Pressure On Rabbi

The threats prompted Rabbi Bakshi-
Doron to meet with Katsay.
"This is a reality I cannot face,"
Rabbi Bakshi-Doron said.
"Very important and dear-to-me
elements have ruled against me," he
said. "I am afraid of excommunica-
tion. I know what excommunication
means, and I am afraid of it. I live
within my people, and I simply can-
not live with such excommunica-
tion."
Elyashiv had also threatened that
Rabbi Bakshi-Doron would no
longer be recognized as a rabbi if he
continued to support the "sale per-
mit" ruling, which was originally
handed down 70 years ago by Rabbi
Abraham Isaac Kook, one of the
leaders of Zionist Orthodoxy.
Rabbi Bakshi-Doron felt he had no
Circumventing The Law
choice.
Despite open support from
For years, the issue has been the sub-
Katsav
—
as well as from Prime
ject of religious controversy.
Minister
Ehud
Barak, who called
rab-
-
Fervently Orthodox Ashkenazi
Rabbi Bakshi-Doron from New York
bis followed the Torah's shemita reg-
this week — the Sephardi chief rabbi
ulations to the letter.
came out with a statement that gave
Sephardi rabbis, as well as Zionist
the literal biblical interpretation of
Ashkenazi rabbis, circumvent the
the haredi rabbis' preference Over the
rule by using a "sale permit" under
" sale permit" ruling.
which farmers sell their land symbol-
His statement was perceived as a
ically to a non-Jew for the sabbatical
total surrender to the haredi commu
year. The move allows the farmers to
nity.
continue cultivating the land, and
"This is yet another expression of
customers to continue purchasing
an
ongoing controversy between the
agricultural products.
haredi
and Zionist rabbis," said legis -
This year, the two chief rabbis, as
lator
Shaul
Yahalom, a member of
well as the spiritual leader of the
the
National
Religious Party. "The
Shas Party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, ruled
haredim
are
forcing
themselves on
that farmers could indeed use the
the community."
"sale permit" and continue their
The controversy has far-reaching
work during the corning sabbatical
economic
ramifications. The haredi
year.
rabbis
have
threatened to revoke the
Their ruling conflicted with that of
kashrut
certificates
of all groceries,
the leading authority in the fervently
restaurants
and
hotels
that sell any
Orthodox Ashkenazi world, Rabbi
agricultural
products
grown
during
Yosef Shalom Elyashiv.
the sabbatical year. The move could
When Rabbi Bakshi-Doron gave
cost farmers 55 billion. ill
farmers the green light to go ahead

