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Friday, September 11, 1959
THE 80UTHKBN ISRAELITE
Pip Three
Family Discussion
CHICAGO, (JTA) — A new
program of family life education,
developed over the past two
years, is now being offered to or
ganization and groups in the
Chicago area by tne Jewish
Family and Community Service,
an agency of the Chicago Jewish
Federation.
PLAIN TALK—By Alfred Segal
Suddenly
comfort
is such a
fashionable
word
There has never been any
thing very fashionable, of
course, about quietly eas
ing off a shoe under
chair or table.
And, suddenly, life has just
become too full, too active
for Today’s American Wo
man to go along with fash-
iorts that aren’t also toear-
able fashions.
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Speaking of Kosher
I really don’t like to report
this. It may hurt a lot of kosher
stomachs, to say nothing of Jew
ish consciences. I find it in a
big headline in the South Afri
can Jewish Times whose head
line reads: “Kosher Racket in
America Assumes Frightening
Proportions . . . How Bogus Rab
bis Exploit 20 Million Dollar
Trade.” There’s a long story be
neath the headline.
This South Africa account has
to do with kosher meat in the
US.A.; our consciences and our
stomachs can rest in peace on
that. Rather it concerns a lot of
other kinds of foodstuffs . . .
even aspirins . . . that are be
ing sold in the U.S. under
“hechsher” of alleged rabbis
who are supposed to have put
the kosher blessing on the stuff.
It’s all sales talk by which to
appeal to kosher stomachs in
the U.S.A., according to the
South African Jewish Times.
(Though I myself never look for
any rabbinical label before I
swallow a couple of aspirins.)
This South African paper re
ports that a kashrut directory is
published in which “are listed
over 600 products certified as
kosher . . . for which rabbis get
a special certification fee.”
The article in this Johannes
burg paper quotes Mrs. Trude
Weiss-Rosmarin, widely known
Jewish writer and authority on
Orthodoxy. She is saying that in
that kosher directory which
approves 600 kosher things (with
commercial labels) for us safe
ly to swallow, there are listed:
“Apple sauce, aspirins, horse
radish (14 different brands),
corn starch, cranberry juice (4
brands) dried fruits and honey,
all kinds of fruit and vegetable
juices, mustard, effervescent
mineral salt, pickles and rel
ishes, (some 40 odd varieties)
salt (eight brands and varieties)
vinegar.”
All these approved food pro
ducts are made by certain manu-
KNOW THE BOOK!
“The Hebrew Scriptures
In the Making”
By Max L. Margolis
An AJP Feature
The Untraditional View
Towards the close of the
eleventh century of the common
era, a Jewish commentator of
Cordova, Moses Ibn Chiquitilla,
suggested that the second half
of the Book of Isaiah, beginning
with Chapter 40, was the work
of a prophet near the end of
the Babylonian exile.
The break with tradition is re
markable considering that at so
early a date as the second cen
tury B.C.E. the belief was cur
rent that Isaiah the son of Amoz,
the contemporary of King Heze-
kiah, wrote the whole book.
Thus Sirach relates of him
that ‘by a spirit of might he saw
what should come to pass at the
latter end, and comforted them
that mourned for Zion. He de
clared the things that should be
to the end of time, and the hid
den thihgs or ever they came.’
The same medieval scholar
pronounces Psalms 42,47, 106 to
liave been penned in Babylon,
and the two concluding verses
of Psalm 51 were, according to
him, added by one of the saints
in the Bablonian captivity.
(From “The Hebrew Scriptures
In the Making”—The Jewish
Publication Society of Ameri
ca, 222 No. 15th Street, Phila
delphia, Pa.).
Regional L. A. Council
LOR ANGELES, (JTA)—The
Jewish Federation-Council of
Greater Los Angeles has estab
lished the San Gabriel Valley
Area Council to serve the Jew
ish population in the 24 com
munities in the valley.
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facturers who . . . toward the
purpose of selling to Jews . . .
are willing to pay for a “hech
sher” which certifies that it’s
all strictly kosher.
Mrs. Weiss-Rosmarin is quoted
as saying that none of these
products really reqqires kash-
ruth supervision. (Indeed, I my
self take my vinegar with my
salads without ever asking my
wife whether she’s sure it’s
strictly kosher vinegar by bless
ing of some rabbi.)
And, indeed, the South Afri
can Jewish Times reports a
Coca-Cola incident in one of the
U.S. cities: In the year 1957 a
Coca-Cola manufacturer in that
city paid a rabbi $30,000 for
blessing his Coca-Cola with a
hechsher . . .” According to Mrs.
Weiss-Rosmarin, t h'e greatest
rabbinical authorities testify
that neither Coca-Cola nor any
other drink has anything to do
with kashruth.”
Yes, and there are certain
candies which have been kissed
by a rabbi’s blessing and made
o k. for kosher-feeling stomachs
... to the profit of the candy-
manufacturer, according to this
South Africa report . . . and al
so to the profit of the rabbi who
gave his blessing.
All of this causes the South
African Jewish Times to feel
worried about us over there. It
says: “How many thousands of
dollars flow into the pockets of
unscrupulous or bogus rabbis
who make a ‘racket’ of their ‘re
ligion’ is difficult to tell. If this
racket is not checked by decent
public opinion it will one day
develop into a scandal which
will rock organized Jewry to
its foundations.”
‘ Well, only the other day my
wife bought at the super-market
a jar of dill pickles labeled
“kosher.” I opened the jar and
pulled out a pickle; raised it to
my lips. I must confess to those
rabbis that their pickle didn’t
cause me to feel more Jewish
even though it had been kissed
by one of the rabbis. I liked the
pickle however.
Maybe I should tell all such
rabbis that, in my opinion, they
should go back high up to the
authentic function of serving
Judaism . . . rather than hand
ing out blessings to pickles,
aspirin, Coca-Cola and some 600
other food products.
Oh, there’s so much for rabbis
to be doing far away from
P 1 '
how by character to attain the
heights set by the Command
ments and the Prophets ... to
be good people rather than to
keep their stomachs full of
well-advertised products blessed
by rabbis.
I raise my unblessed glass of
Coca-Cola in tribute to all rab
bis . . I am happy to say they
are the majority . . . who truly
observe the high rabbinical
function. I must tell our South
African co-religionists that most
of us Jews in the U.^.A. resent
Coca-Cola and aspirin rabbis,
and wish we could do something
to teach them what, in our op
inion, it means to be truly Jew
ish.
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