http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/nyregion/07chicken.html

Kitchenware being cleansed at the Belzer Shul in Ramapo, N.Y., in response to concerns that chicken had illegitimately been sold as kosher.

September 7, 2006

Butcher Is Accused of Passing Off Chicken as Kosher

By FERNANDA SANTOS

MONSEY, N.Y., Sept. 6 — Since sundown on Saturday — when the Jewish Sabbath ended — men, women and children have been scrubbing kitchen counters and stoves, and dipping pots and utensils in scalding water.

“My husband and I had to leave everything we were doing,” said Esther Herzl, 61, a Hasidic grandmother who lives here, “and all we did was scrape and scrape and scrape — from the cutlery to the glassware to the countertops, oven and stove. I’m beat. We’re truly religious, so we don’t cheat in the cleaning.”

The cleansing ritual, which is prescribed by Jewish law, became necessary after a Hasidic butcher was accused of stocking the shelves of a kosher grocery store here with nonkosher chicken and selling it to thousands of Orthodox Jewish families.

[highlight]Now a group of rabbis is debating the fate of the butcher.[/highlight]

Last week, the state’s Department of Agriculture and Markets seized 15 cases of chicken from the store, Hatzlocha Grocery, where the butcher sold chicken and other meats from rented shelf space to test it for salt, a key ingredient in kosher food.

The state agency and the rabbis, who represent several Hasidic congregations in Monsey and elsewhere in Rockland County, are trying to determine the origin of the chicken, whose package carried the stickers of two area kosher meat plants that had ceased supplying to the butcher after he failed to pay them, according to a local rabbi and an employee at the store.

[highlight]“To sell nonkosher as kosher is one of the biggest acts of betrayal that a Jewish person can do to another,” said Rabbi Menachem Meir Weissmandel of Chemed Shul, a local synagogue. “This is the darkest day in the history of our community since we settled in this area many years ago.” [/highlight]

The butcher, [color="Red"]Moshe Finkel, owns Shevach Meats, which buys kosher chicken and other meats in bulk, and then slices, packages and sells it at the grocery store and to wedding halls, religious schools and Hasidic camps in the Catskill Mountains.

Attempts to reach Mr. Finkel, who lives in Monsey, by telephone were unsuccessful on Wednesday. Rabbi Weissmandel said that Mr. Finkel was banned from Hatzlocha Grocery last Wednesday, as soon as the store owners uncovered his alleged transgression.

He said the store owners confronted Mr. Finkel after they noticed the shelves lined with kosher meats, even though his usual suppliers had not made a delivery. Almost immediately, leaflets lined Hatzlocha’s windows, telling patrons in Hebrew that Shevach Meats had been caught selling nonkosher chicken. At synagogues and on the street, rabbis instructed the faithful to throw out the meat and cleanse their kitchens to make them kosher again.

The matter has been the talk of Jewish Web logs. One of them, Vos Iz Neias, announced it under the banner headline “Butcher Sells Treifa Chicken as Kosher.” (Nonkosher food, or food that is not in accord with Jewish dietary laws, is called treif, which derives from the Hebrew word teref, or torn.) The posting generated 440 comments in two days.

[highlight]Rabbinical panels often work in secret, so it is hard to figure out when the rabbis here will reach a decision or what it will be.[/highlight]

As for the state, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department said investigators were trying to determine if the chicken was ever certified as kosher and advertised as such at the store. She said violators are subject to fines of up to $1,000.

This is a good example of Jewish weakness. Look at how their superstitions get them running around and scared.

Nick Griffin proposed giving free lunches to all the children in british schools. But no hallal, or kosher meat allowed in the public schools as he called it rightly animal cruelty. That would help to isolate and alienate the jewish and mohammedan students from the greater society.

The butcher, [color="Red"]Moshe Finkel, owns Shevach Meats, which buys kosher chicken and other meats in bulk, and then slices, packages and sells it at the grocery store and to wedding halls, religious schools and Hasidic camps in the Catskill Mountains.

And they think I'm kidding when I say the Catskills are infested with kikes!

This story is fucking HILARIOUS! A KIKE...fuckin' over a BUNCH OF KIKES!

-Jim

I remember some time ago jews were snickering and ridiculing Muslims for there horrific religious reaction when becoming aware the (K)ikez were rubbing their ammunition in pork products.

Now whoz the fuckin’ azzhole?

Then again, there’s ‘One standard for jewz… another standard for yews.’

Just what the hell does a kosher chicken look like?

Them boys look kinda funny in those pics. Something wrong with their faces.

Kosher (any animal) is based on how its killed and cleaned. (usually bled alive and certain entrails not allowed to touch the meat and silly things like that)

I was watching this cooking show once where it involved a jewish wedding being held out of an Italian catering hall. They had to have a rabbi in training to oversee all food prep, packaging, barking out orders to the kitchen staff and everything else. It was hard to sit through, but I had to watch it just so I knew how anal they are about kosher food.

Maybe more White Nationalists should work in the culinary business

By the way that pic of them washing dishes is priceless. One day it'll be attached to some "hollowco$t" exhibit how they were held at gunpoint to wash nazi dishes.

The video on the true kosher meat. Disgusting and graphic.

BTW, made by a jew, who, himself was appaled at the kosher process when he learned what it really is. So, no anti-semitic war cries.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXS_Ekd_r80&mode=related&search=

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060914/NEWS/609140325/-1/NEWS

Faithful turn to KJ butcher after Rockland fake kosher scare
Inspectors pull cases of suspect chicken from shelves in Monsey

By Chris McKenna
September 14, 2006
Times Herald-Record

Dear reader: The grocery store where a butcher allegedly passed off non-kosher chicken as kosher is in Monsey. A headline in the print edition of today's Times Herald-Record incorrectly stated the butcher was from Kiryas Joel.

Kiryas Joel — The news has been roiling Orthodox Jewish circles for almost two weeks now — an astonishing scandal that made some wonder if the meat they were buying was truly kosher.

A Monsey butcher was accused of passing off nonkosher chicken as kosher, leading unsuspecting shoppers to commit a grave sin by ingesting meat that wasn't slaughtered and butchered in a manner dictated by ancient Jewish laws and tradition.

State inspectors yanked cases of suspect chicken from Hatzlocha Grocery and launched an investigation. Anguished customers purged their fridges and scoured their kitchens and cookware. Rabbis interrogated the butcher, Moshe Finkel, and issued stern edicts.

Thus far, the scandal has had little impact in Kiryas Joel, other than as a subject of horrified conversation. Few Kiryas Joel families bought meat at the Monsey store, although Finkel's goods are said to have made their way to Hasidic camps in the Catskills and to Monsey catering halls that some Kiryas Joel residents use.

One reverberation has been a surge of new customers at the Kiryas Joel Meat Market, which has been inundated with orders to deliver meat to Monsey homes.

"They call me. A lot of people have called me," said Cheskel Landau, the store manager. "People are very embarrassed."

CORRECTION: The grocery store where a butcher allegedly passed off non-kosher chicken as kosher is in Monsey. A headline in the Times Herald-Record today incorrectly stated the butcher was from Kiryas Joel.

He and an associate working yesterday at the storefront business in the Forest Road shopping center estimated that sales have jumped anywhere from 15 percent to 25 percent since the revelations about Finkel and his business, Shevach Meats, surfaced.

A supervisor at Kiryas Joel's chicken slaughterhouse helped expose the deception in Monsey by questioning how Finkel could still have Kiryas Joel poultry in his cases without having obtained any shipments in a couple of weeks.

The Kiryas Joel slaughterhouse, one of several suppliers that Finkel used, had cut off his supply because he hadn't paid his bills, community sources said.

The manager whose questions triggered the investigation declined to discuss the matter when approached yesterday at the slaughterhouse.

The state Department of Agriculture and Markets is still investigating the origins of the 15 chicken cases it confiscated, a spokeswoman said.

The department could fine Finkel as much as $1,000 for improperly labeling his products.

Is it kosher?

Kosher means "fit" in Hebrew and describes any foods fit for Jews to eat, based on rules first written in Leviticus and Deuteronomy and expanded many times over the years in other texts. For Jews who keep kosher, these dietary restrictions are an integral component of daily life and Jewish identity.

One well-known kosher mandate is that meat and dairy products cannot be mixed. Pork and shellfish are forbidden. Other guidelines dictate how animals should be slaughtered. A chicken, for instance, must be killed with a single razor slit and emptied of blood. [color="Blue"](slashing throats is sport for the yid)

The strictest kosher rules are known as glatt kosher. Those who adhere to them look for the certification of a rabbi or kosher supervision agency when buying packaged food or dining at a restaurant.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4535720

Rush on to 'rekosher' after chicken scare

Hundreds bring plates and silverware to a temple amid fears they had been tainted by non-kosher poultry

(Spring Valley - WABC, September 6, 2006) - [highlight]Hundreds of people brought plates and silverware to a temple Wednesday because they are concerned non-kosher food tainted them.[/highlight]

It happened in Spring Valley, Rockland County, where many bought what they thought was kosher chicken. But the birds were not Kosher. They had bought chicken with the wrong label on it. Now they're trying to figure out how it happened.

Eyewitness News reporter Marcus Solis has more on the story.

It is one of the most deeply held principles in Judaism, that kosher food must be handled and prepared in a very specific way. Spring Valley residents say they were devastated to learn some of the food people handled and ate was non-kosher.

[highlight] Hundreds of Orthodox and Hasidic jews turned out Wednesday to have their pots, pans and silverware dipped in boiling water. It's a process called "koshering," which makes the materials rekosher, and is usually done on a smaller scale during Passover. But in Spring Valley, this is an emergency.

"The house has to be kosher," one resident said. "If the pots aren't kosher we can't cook or eat anything." [/highlight]

The uncertainly settles around Hatzlacha Grocery on Maple Avenue, where last week owners put up signs stating some of the chicken they had sold was not kosher. The discovery stunned members of the deeply religious community.

"I just brought back some meat and they gave me a full refund," Spring Valley resident Melanie Ambinder said. "And I'm sure the store is doing everything that they can to rectify the situation."

[highlight]"The community cherishes the kosher laws, and they're willing to spend two and three times the amount of money to get kosher," resident Benzion Klatzko said. "Rarely has that trust been misused or taken advantage of." [/highlight] [color="Blue"](oh, but I thought there was no kosher-tax. Uh huh.)

The meat has been quarantined and will be tested by state officials. Hatzlacha's owners say they made the discovery when they saw chicken on the shelf from a company they hadn't received a shipment of in days. They believe the butcher hired to slice and package meat and poultry for the store re-labeled non-kosher food.

"It's very, very upsetting," store owner Avrohom Green said. "We understand the issue. We're very upset. And we are very glad that we called them and that we informed them about the problem. We didn't like it. Take it off the table. Hide it."

Many residents are wondering just how long this has been going on. Owners say the butcher has worked with the store for years, but he refuses to comment on the issue. That is why, residents say, so many of them are coming down to have those plates rekoshered just in case.

That's it, I'm gonna open a new business. Right in the heart of Lakewood.

I'll call it White's kosher Deli. Oh, I'll serve kosher food all right. Inspected by "Rabbi Bud". And as an extra meausre, I'll wipe my ass with the meats and serve them up to these filthy fucking Lakewood kikes.

Hundreds of Orthodox and Hasidic jews turned out Wednesday to have their pots, pans and silverware dipped in boiling water. It's a process called "koshering," which makes the materials rekosher, and is usually done on a smaller scale during Passover. But in Spring Valley, this is an emergency.

"The house has to be kosher," one resident said. "If the pots aren't kosher we can't cook or eat anything."

This is so hilarious. and those are people who claim to have a higher IQ and to give the highest number of the shnobel prize winners!

They can eat from their dishes after some ugly crook dips them into dirty water used for cleaning the many dishes.
I've read about the women's rutual bath mikva - the dozens of the naked jewesses make a line to the small reservoir of water into which they have to submerge completely one after another without changing the "holy" water of course. Rats wouldn't do it. Jews do.