Comments on: Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital Mall

By: moshe

moshe — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:33:18 +0000

Thanks for this article.

The Tal burgers store used to only have one of the fake kashrut certificates (I forget if it was nezer hakashrut or another phony one) - and they would *hide* their regular rabbanut certificate, showing only the “mehadrin” one. I have called the rabbanut about them numerous times, and they finally only hve their rabbanut certificate out. This information needs to be passed on to the rabbanut machleket hona’a - telephone number 02-531-3187

By: Ben Waxman

Ben Waxman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:53:19 +0000

the workers don’t need to know a thing about kashrut. they need to know how to follow instructions. i used to be a kashrut supervisor and i can state flat out - the more “religious” the person, the more trouble he gave.

By: Dovi

Dovi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:26:34 +0000

Did Tal burgers originally have an unauthorised Mehadrin? That would explain the Mehdrin sign. The one in Talpiot had an unauthorised Mehadrin Teuda when I checked last year.

I suspect that many of the stores that have removed the unauthorised Mehdrin Teudot, are not quick to remove the mehadrin sign.

By: yechiel-admin

yechiel-admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:24:19 +0000

The reference to employees not “appearing outwardly shomer shabbat” was not intended to appear critical of any dress code, but more importantly, to politely place the reality before you, the reader, to ponder if this is an acceptable standard since we cannot know if any employee is knowledgeable enough regarding kashrut, and if he/she is G-d (job) fearing enough to adhere to the instructions of a mashgiach in his absence.

This might be especially noteworthy in an establishment boasting a ‘mehadrin’ hechsher, which is understood to maintain a stricter adherence to the stringencies of kosher.

Had I written “none of the workers are shomer shabbat” the correct and likely response would have been “how can you make such an assessment”, prompting me to word my thoughts as I did.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:14:13 +0000

My daughter, a Shomer Mitzvot pants wearing graduate of a good Ulpana, worked at Neeman Ein Kerem for almost two years. The kitchen workers are :bnay mi’utin”; the other employees including the manager, are not necessarily religious but are all instructed to keep strict separation between milk and parve products. The mashgiach comes and goes and was very happy to have a religious girl behind the counter (after getting over the initial shock that trousers and strict shmirat mitzvot CAN go together).

By: Ben Waxman

Ben Waxman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:36:11 +0000

I will comment that upon my arrival all the workers that I saw in both stores appeared to be Jews, although not necessarily appearing outwardly shomer shabbat.

in terms of mehadrin kashrut, is being outwardly shomer shabbat (i assume that you mean the guys wear a kippa) is this important? plus how can you judge this anyway? some guys sports a kippa at work, so what? a lot of the mehadrin caterers require their employees to wear a kippa at functions, but that is quite meaningless.