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<font size=3>At 01:20 PM 12/9/2013, Rena wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">No, you are to understand that
the rav of a shul wishes to avoid [like the<br>
plague] a situation where he can eat in Ploni's home but not
Almoni's,<br>
especially in the US where there are many well-meaning ba'alei tshuva
who<br>
do not yet have quite enough knowledge to know when something is a
kashrus<br>
problem or not.He doesn't wish to hurt anyone's feelings.<br>
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I am surprised that you wrote "especially in the US where there are
many well-meaning ba'alei tshuva who do not yet have quite enough
knowledge to know when something is a kashrus problem or
not."<br><br>
Are you implying that this is less of a problem in EY. It seems to
me that kashrus is much more complicated in EY what with Trumos and
Maasros, Shmittah, mehadrin kosher and non-mehadrin
kosher, restaurants that claim to be kosher but have no
supervision, etc. From
<a href="http://www.kosherinjerusalem.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.kosherinjerusalem.com/</a><br>
"Finally a site dedicated to helping you navigate the tricky waters
of keeping kosher in Jerusalem." and "Have you heard that
the rabanut issued a warning about fraudulent mehadrin
hechshers?" Also, what about all of the problems
regularly reported by Jerusalem Kosher News
(<a href="http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.jerusalemkoshernews.com/</a>)? There seem to be a lot of
them. <br><br>
My impression is that kashrus in EY is even a challenge for those who
were brought up religious. A friend of mine who grew up in EY
recently wrote to me regarding kashrus in EY, "Everything
there is a problem."<br><br>
I am the first to acknowledge that I have no first hand knowledge of the
kashrus situation in EY, but from here in the US it seems to me
that kashrus is much more complicated in EY than in the US.<br><br>
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