“Stretching the rules, or even worse, ignoring them or simply lying, in the name of frumkeit seems to have become the norm”
What a beautiful and insightful article on Rabbi Fishbane.
Seeing the wonderful work and success of the kashrus agencies in America and Europe has brought up something that’s been bothering me for a long time.
The AKO often comes to Israel and speaks in some shuls about how so many of the Israeli hechsherim are extremely subpar, well beneath the standards of the hechsherim they eat in chutz l’Aretz, and just because there is Hebrew writing on the paper hanging on the wall does not make it kosher.
Yet thousands of chutznikim come every year to take their kids, nieces, and nephews out to restaurants and eat in hotels at which they would never dream of eating, if they knew the level of the standards there.
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