[Avodah] Nationwide Kashrus Gathering on Worms in Fish

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Wed May 26 06:09:23 PDT 2010


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 07:54:16AM -0400, R Yitzchok Levine wrote:
: From http://tinyurl.com/2fe9fhx
: <https://5tjt.com/international-news/7213-nationwide-kashrus-gathering-on-worms-in-fish.html>
: Nationwide Kashrus Gathering on Worms in 
: By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
: on Tuesday, May 25, 2010
...
: Please see the above URL for the list of those who were in attendance 
: and for the 6 minute video showing the worms in fish.  It is not 
: clear to me what kind of fish they were extracting the worms from.

Swordfish. <g>

Seriously, though, the Hebrew speaker mentions swordfish among the ones
we get via China. Are there people who are meiqilim on swordfish but
machmirim on these tola'im?

And why was the OU there? Doesn't that cloud their official stance
<http://www.oukosher.org/index.php/articles/single_print/1377835> that
YD 84:16 applies, and the firsh are fine? Or are they actually changing
stance in light of his data about migrations?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha



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