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Badatz Toronto called ‘disheartening development’ |
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 |
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Your front page feature Senior rabbis endorse Badatz Toronto (Jewish Tribune, Oct. 22) underscored a very disheartening development for the Toronto Jewish community.
As anyone who has visited or lived in the Wild West kashrus world of New York or Israel can attest, it has been a lot more comforting to live in Toronto. Everyone trusted the strong central kashrus authority of the COR. Any restaurant or product or event that was under COR supervision was kosher. And that created an achdus despite powerful divisive forces such as geography or hashkafa. And I have no doubt that this enhanced Toronto’s stature worldwide.
A weakened COR (as this must surely be) means weakened achdus and weakened kashrus. I don’t know why rabbis Amram Assayag and Moshe Bensalmon have proceeded the way they have. It surely must be more noble than wanting to offer “affordable kashruth at competitive rates.” But I fear we are not far away from people starting to question COR, just as people in New York and Israel question the kashrus standards of the agencies they personally don’t use.
I disagree with the Badatz spokesman who said that “it’s always better for the consumer when there’s competition and choice.” While it’s possible that the business entrepreneur may benefit from having choice, this is not what the consumer wants or needs. They need kashrus they can trust.
Raphael Adams
Thornhill, ON |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 04 November 2009 )
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