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</font><font size=1 face="Arial">in comments, micha noted-----</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma">“lacosta”: why does serving treyf affect
the hechsher but abusing workers doesn’t?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma">Because the hekhsher is a statement that
“this isn’t treif”.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma">When I was a kid, a reastaurant in Queens
with Middle Eastern cuisine lost its hekhsher over having a belly dancer.
The hekhsher could not in good conscience promote kosher-observant Jewish
men watching belly dancing. That’s closer to this topic, in that the agency
wouldn’t certify something as kosher for reasons other than kashrus.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma">But it’s still different, because the consumer
is the one who would be sinning. Here it’s the producer who sinned, not
what do we do? One can’t crossbreed fruit, but after the fact, crossbred
fruit are kosher. Here too it’s after the fact.</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="Arial">and another commentor----</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Tahoma">In short response to your response, I think
that if the Orthodox rabbinute, in general, paid more attention to the
type of issues that could be considered “ethical” issues in the general
society, it would undercut things like this Conversative “hecksher.”</font><font size=3>
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<br><font size=1 face="Arial">Question : 1]
does anyone have a problem with pulling the hechsher because
of mixed dancing/belly dancing ?</font>
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2] would anyone having
a problem if O rabbis declared aproduct trayf,
eg table grapes bacause of a] the behaviour of jewish
owners b] non-jewish owners?<br>
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