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Old June 16th, 2016 #1
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Creeping Halakhah

(16/06/2016)


In a new regular segment to be published every Thursday I thought I'd offer an update on the Alinsky-esque long march of all things related to halakhah (jewish religious law) into Western society, which advocates of Sharia law are currently attempting to emulate.

First off we have Ira Stoll of the Algemeiner claiming that the New York Times is obsessed with kosher food, but isn't telling its readers about the 'meaning of Passover' or jewish spirituality in general.

Stoll doesn't seem to think it is a problem that the New York Times spends an inordinate amount of time describing how 'wonderful' kosher food is – after all it is infinitely superior to goyische eatables apparently – (2) which only speaks to a tiny minority of American citizens.

The problem according to Stoll is that the New York Times doesn't spend enough time extolling jewish religious ideas to its largely non-jewish readership. He is specifically referencing the subject of Pesach (i.e. Passover).

One therefore assumes that Stoll wants the New York Times to remind its readers that according to the account of the events of Pesach in the (Written) Torah.

In other words: the Israelites murdered the first born sons of the Egyptians, stole and then absconded with the wealth of Egypt. Oh and then they proceeded to massacre an Egyptian army sent in pursuit without daring to fight it.

I happen to agree with Stoll. The New York Times should remind its primarily non-jewish readership of the mass murder and theft committed by the Israelites and the how the virtues of this sort of behaviour are continually extolled by their jewish descendants.

Oh and who is the New York Times food critic who Stoll is getting so upset with?

Julia Moskin: who is jewish herself.

Oy Vey!

Speaking of kosher food: we now have kosher-certified medical cannabis. (3) This is the latest in a long string of products which don't need certification in order to be kosher, but unscrupulous jews being what they are. Kashruth certification organizations look at these products as a way to further increase their ill-gotten gains. (4)

Oh and if anyone tells me that because a product is certified kosher it is 'okay for those with lactose intolerance' (5) then they are going to get thumped. Statements like that are spectacularly ignorant since kosher certification only informs you that a product doesn't have both a 'meaty' (fleischig) or 'milky' (milchig) nature.

It doesn't tell you whether it has milk in it or not: for heaven's sake.

However this little tit-bit from the Econotimes about how widespread the use of jewish religious law in regard to food is should make you think:

'Whatever the mix of reasons, the U.S. Kosher market generates more than $12 billion in annual retail sales. In fact, more products are labeled Kosher than are labeled organic, natural or premium.' (6)

That this is understated should be even more alarming since over half of all food products in the United States are kashruth certified. (7) A food product being kashruth certified (i.e. kosher) has absolutely nothing to do with it being cleaner or having health benefits either. (8)

This can be seen in the fact that Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, the former head kashrus supervisor at kosher foods manufacturer Manischewitz (whose kosher wines now primarily sell to Chinese customers weirdly), (9) who is seeking damages from the Orthodox Union, the world's largest rabbinical certification organization, for misrepresenting the integrity of their methods of kashruth certification, which is incidentally an extremely common problem in said industry. (10)

Predictably Rabbi Horowitz is asking for millions of dollars in compensation from his former employers.

Who would have guessed?

Talking of kosher products being expensive, and contrary to the myth that 'it doesn't cost very much' spread by the Anti-Defamation League among others, it turns out that kosher food, especially when combined with the stricter than normal halakhic requirements for food eaten at Pesach (i.e. Passover), is significantly more expensive. Sometimes to the tune of five to six times what the product would cost if it was not certified as being kashruth. (11)

Hence why only 55 of the 182 branches of the McDonalds fast food chain in Israel are kashruth certified! (12)

To end on some good news however: a 100,000 people in Britain have signed an online petition and forced the British parliament to hold a debate to ban halal and kosher slaughter there.

Remember guys and girls: this is how it all started last time! (13)


References


(1) http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/22...ood-obsession/
(2) A common enough point of view among jews. For example see the comments of Solomon David Sassoon, 1956, 'A Critical Study of Electrical Stunning and the Jewish Method of Slaughter (Schechita)', 3rd Edition, Self-Published: Letchworth, p. 14; Isidore Grunfeld, 1966, 'The Religious and Moral Basis of the Jewish Dietary Laws', 1st Edition, National Council of Schechita Boards: London, p. 9; Shaul Wagschal, 1991, 'The New Practical Guide to Kashruth', 1st Edition, Feldheim: Jerusalem, p. 1 and Yacov Lipschutz, 1988, 'Kashruth: A Comprehensive Background and Reference Guide to The Principles of Kashruth', 1st Edition, Mesorah: New York, p. 10
(3) http://www.econotimes.com/Rocky-Moun...rtified-183756
(4) Described well with the examples of aluminum foil and bottled water in Timothy Lytton, 2013, 'Private Regulation in the Age of Industrial Food', 1st Edition, Harvard University Press: Cambridge, pp. 136-138
(5) http://www.econotimes.com/Rocky-Moun...rtified-183756
(6) Ibid.
(7) Sue Fishkoff, 2010, 'Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America's Food Answers to a Higher Authority', 1st Edition, Schocken: New York, p. 5
(8) For example see the comments in: Grunfeld, Op. Cit., p. 12; Victor Geller, Irwin Gordon, n.d., 'Kashruth', Rabbinical Council of America: New York, p. 3 and Lipschutz, Op. Cit., p. 27
(9) http://www.wsj.com/articles/some-non...ews-1462211206
(10) http://www.michigansthumb.com/news/a...2a4867ca.html; http://www.therepublic.com/view/stor...osher-Lawsuit; also see Stephen Bloom, 2001, 'Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America', 1st Edition, Harcourt: New York and John Cooper, 1993, 'Eat and Be Satisfied: A Social History of Jewish Food', 1st Edition, Jason Aronson: Northvale
(11) http://www.fox13memphis.com/news/tre...sive/235750483
(12) http://www.timesofisrael.com/we-dese...alth-minister/
(13) Cf. Robin Judd, 2007, 'Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933', 1st Edition, Cornell University Press: Ithaca

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Old July 1st, 2016 #2
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(01/07/2016)


To begin with this week's delayed 'Creeping Halakhah'. We have the city of Dnepropetrovsk in eastern Ukraine, which has named a street after the late Rabbi Menachim Mendel Schneerson; the last leader of the Lubavitch Chabad. (1)

This is quite frankly offensive given that Schneerson is well-known to have viewed – and indeed he openly referred to it in his 'Tanya' – non-jews as sub-human creatures who exist only to serve the whims of their jewish masters. (2)

Perhaps the city of Dnepropetrovsk should look into who they are naming streets after a little more carefully in future?

Speaking of the Lubavitch Chabad: we have also been greeted with the news this week that the aforementioned sect will be modifying the functions of its three centres in Rio de Janeiro into 'welcome centres' for the jews visiting Brazil for the Olympics. (3)

It gets even weirder when you note that the Lubavitchers are going to be flying in rabbinical students from New York to staff these centres in Brazil Apparently there just aren't enough jews in the country to do so even though an Israeli is currently running the Brazilian Central Bank. (4)

Further bad news for those who seek to portray Israel and the jewish people as fellow warriors in the struggle against the forces of Islam to Americans and Europeans has also occurred this week. Namely that the French jewish community – you know those people who Natan Sharansky (the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel) is currently claiming 'have no future in France because of Islamic anti-Semitism' – (5) has allied with France's Muslim community to stop the French government banning halal (and thus also kosher) slaughter. (6)

So apparently jewish officialdom in France is cooperating and assisting with Islamic officialdom who, according to the jews themselves, allegedly want to exterminate them in their struggle against French patriots. Ho hum!

In Belgium a similar Judeo-Islamic alliance has managed to foist the belief that brutally murdering an animal according to weird religious rituals is somehow a 'human right' onto a court. (7)

If you disagree... you are clearly an Islamophobic anti-Semite! (8)

The bitch-slap fest over just who gets the profits from kashruth certification in Israel has continued this week with restaurants rebelling against the kosher nostra at the Rabbinate. (9)

This rebellious pressure appears to be forcing the Rabbinate to back down from its 'all or nothing' position and it has now confirmed that it is looking at licensing local kashruth inspectors in an attempt to keep the kosher gravy train rolling. (10)

Speaking of kosher gravy trains: the Orthodox Union - the largest kashruth certification organization in the world – is now trying to convince American businesses that corn oil in addition to tap water, bottled water, salad, cannabis and bleach needs to be certified as kosher by its 'experts'. (11)

Their argument?

That manufacturers would be 'missing out' on a large number of potential customers if they did not get their corn oil kashruth certified by the Orthodox Union.

Given that only 2.1% of the US population is jewish (12) and only a fraction of that number will keep strictly kosher (i.e. be the Orthodox Union's principle market). One wonders what 'large market' the Orthodox Union are referring to?

Answers on a post card please!


References


(1) http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/a...hem_schneerson
(2) For example cf. Aharon Dov Halperin, Trans: Tuvia Natkin, 2004, 'Our Man in Dakar and other Stories of the Lubavitcher Rebbe', 1st Edition, Sifriyat Kfar Chabad: New York
(3) http://www.jta.org/2016/06/27/news-o...e-for-olympics
(4) http://www.jta.org/2016/05/17/news-o...s-central-bank
(5) http://www.jta.org/2016/06/28/news-o...jews-in-france
(6) http://www.timesofisrael.com/french-...ual-slaughter/
(7) http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Belgia...-rights-459123
(8) For example: http://oxfordstudent.com/2014/06/10/...islamophobia/; http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-9349652.html; http://www.antisemitismwatch.com/201...anti-semitic/; http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/159206
(9) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp...horities.html; http://www.timesofisrael.com/restaur...sher-monopoly/
(10) http://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbina...sher-eateries/
(11) http://biodieselmagazine.com/article...s-for-glycerin
(12) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/.../usjewpop.html


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(04/08/2016)


To kick off this week’s edition of ‘Creeping Halakhah’ we have the amusing fact – which I reported on other evidence for last week – that while Republican delegates used the internet to search for hot dogs, pizza, burgers and ice cream. The Democrat delegates were busying looking for adult entertainment, tattoos and vegan/kosher food on the internet. (1)

That really does say a lot about the delegations from the respective parties: doesn’t it?

It really does appear that the Democratic Party is filled with tattooed vegan jews obsessed with watching pornography on the internet.

Stereotypes really are drawn from life!

Who knew?

All things considered however it is fortunate the delegates to the Democratic National Convention tend to be proverbial fat cats given, as has been noted this week in a letter to the ‘Palm Beach Post’, just how expensive kosher food actually is. (2)

The reason has also been made evident this week in an example regarding pineapples, which may have tiny insects in them and therefore just aren’t kosher. (3) This has a rendered a whole assortment of foods using affected fruit products treifah and therefore requires the companies concerned to destroy all the affected fruit and associated products if they wish to keep their kosher certification.

Oh and they must also hire some very expensive rabbinical consultants to make sure all their fruit and food products are kosher compliant. I mean after all as Dennis Prager has been arguing this week: kashruth is about a lot more than just avoiding bacon and shellfish. (4) It is about – as Rabbi Shaul Wagschal among others have openly proclaimed – about enforcing the racial and spiritual purity and superiority of the jewish people over non-jews.

We wouldn’t have that cosmic imbalance upset now would we?

Yet it is all too easy for non-jews who just don’t ‘get it’ to see jewish beliefs and ritual habits as negative things. For example take the following excerpt from an article at ‘Food Consumer’:

‘This week, the New York Times reported about an Orthodox Jewish summer camp in Pennsylvania where boys were taught kosher slaughter on living quails, partridges and ducks.’ (5)

Of course the non-jews just don’t understand that it is of the utmost of importance to teach little jewish boys how to ritually sacrifice living birds by slicing their necks open at summer camp. After all if Yahweh is not placated by little jewish boys murdering helpless birds in the prescribed manner then what will become of us all?

Will the sky finally fall or what?


References


(1) http://www.businessinsider.com.au/ye...rnc-dnc-2016-7
(2) http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/ne...pricier/nr7K9/
(3) http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/...rus-alert.html
(4) http://www.jewishjournal.com/dennis_...ou_keep_kosher
(5) http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/...728160947.html

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(08/09/2016)


There have been yet more fun and frolics in jewish community this week with the New York newspaper Yated Ne’eman – which primarily serves the Hasidic jewish community – editing out Hillary Clinton’s face in a photo they published. (1)

The rationale for this is that a woman’s uncovered head - especially that of an evil shiksa – is immodest and liable to cause ‘impure thoughts’ (aka ‘evil intentions’) among the sexually repressed Hasidim. It also happens to be against halakhic religious law, which forbids a man to stake at an ‘immodest’ woman.

Doesn’t that seem familiar?

Oh well… yes… Muslims seem to think the same thing, but yet we haven’t heard a peep about this from such advocates of Western values as Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer. Yet had an Islamic newspaper done the same; we wouldn’t have heard the end of it.

Strange that…

Perhaps it is because it is jews doing the ‘female modesty’ censorship and not Muslims, but yet I thought Geller and Spencer wanted to safeguard Western values against oppressive, intolerant religions. Apparently not all oppressive, intolerant religions are a threat to Western values.

Oh well…

In related news: Orthodox jewesses have been revealed to have been jewing – yes I know it isn’t an actual verb, but it seems appropriate – their jewish spouses over a ceremonial pledge in the ketubah (the written marriage contract in Judaism) to make them a 555,555 shekel (or $145,000) one time settlement payment in case of divorce.(2)

This is such a problem – and even more so because said jewesses are (hilariously) adjusting for inflation – that local rabbinical courts (which control divorces in Israel) have formally asked the Chief Rabbinate for permission to cap these pledges at a million shekels.

Oh well… at least we have the comfort of knowing that stereotypes about jews aren’t quite the canards the Anti-Defamation League claim them to be.

Talking of scams; it turns out that the cost of food certified as kosher is so expensive that the San Diego Jewish World joked this week that a ‘secret consortium’ of jews – the Learned Elders of Zion perhaps – are trialling a program, which would see jews getting refunded part of the purchase price when they prove they have bought kosher products. (3)

This is only going to get worse as certificates of kashruth compliance are getting stricter and stricter and therefore more and more expensive. (4) This is a trend which is also being used a job creation program for religious jews. (5)

Nor is this increasingly strict kosher certification actually helping anyone other than jews.

Since as Huffington Post Canada has noted this week:

‘People with dairy allergies may be tempted to use kosher symbols as an indicator for the presence of milk in products, but this can be risky as kosher label standards don't account for cross-contamination. Kosher labelling is designed for people of the Jewish faith to maintain a kosher diet, and is not intended for those with food allergies.’ (6)

Now for those of you who don’t know; one of the major arguments used by jews to justify why products intended primarily for non-jews should be kosher certified is that it assists vegans and vegetarians in detecting whether animal produce has been utilised in its production. (7)

This is simply made-up nonsense that should be evident to anyone who knows anything about kashruth as I have explained elsewhere. (8)

Despite this I was surprised to learn this week that lead - yes as in the metal – is not kosher. (9)

Previously I wouldn’t have thought jews would go quite to the extreme of declaring metals forbidden in the halakhah on kashruth, but I probably should have known better considering that the rabbinical authorities have ruled tap water as treif (i.e. not kosher) in some cities due to the presence of microscopic creatures in it. (10)

Perhaps that is why one of the big kashruth certification agencies in the world, Kof-K, has brought out a mobile phone app this week; allowing jews to check the kashruth status of various products at their fingertips. (11)

I also was unaware that jewish clothing magnates like Joseph Joseph threw ‘Mexican-themed parties’. At which the taco-station was supervised for kashruth compliance by a rabbi while topless Latina dancers gyrated next to him. (12)

If anything sums up the state of the American nation today: that is it.

While in the United Kingdom; a jewess named Rhea Wolfson has been elected to the allegedly ‘anti-Semitic’ Labour Party’s Executive Committee, (13) but Luciana Berger – of ‘I will jail you for offensive tweets’ fame – has failed in her electoral to become the Mayoress of Liverpool. (14)

Some clouded skies have a silver lining: don’t they?


References


(1) http://www.timesofisrael.com/haredi-...clinton-photo/
(2) http://www.jewishaz.com/us_worldnews...22243bab7.html
(3) http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2016/08...e-kosher-food/
(4) http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216272
(5) Cf. Yuval Elizur, Lawrence Malkin, 2014, ‘The War Within: Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Threat to Democracy’, 1st Edition, The Overlook Press: New York
(6) http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/08..._11137384.html
(7) For example: http://archive.adl.org/special_repor...tax/print.html
(8) http://semiticcontroversies.blogspot...emoval-of.html
(9) http://www.inquisitr.com/3403472/tur...evels-of-lead/
(10) David Kraemer, 2009, ‘Jewish Eating and Identity Through the Ages’, 2nd Edition, Routledge: New York, pp. 147-149
(11) http://jewishlinknj.com/food/14264-k...new-mobile-app
(12) http://nypost.com/2016/08/22/clothin...tino-staffers/
(13) http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/...ive-committee/
(14) http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/...l-mayoral-bid/

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(10/11/2016)


Kicking of this week’s edition of ‘Creeping Halakhah’ we have the news that leading vets in Great Britain have once again condemned halal and kosher meat in no uncertain terms, because of its vile and utterly inhumane slaughtering practices. (1)

I don’t know about you but personally I’d rather not eat meat where the animal in question has been slaughtered while some demented jew or Muslim has been chanting prayers over it, while its hot blood is spraying from its neck onto the slaughter house floor. (2)

In South Dakota a judge has dismissed a law suit by a jewish inmate named James Irving Dale alleging that there was pork flavouring in his kosher rice (yes even rice has to be kosher-certified). In addition to demanding that a rabbi supervise the food preparation of the Mike Durfee State prison, (3) which is similarly not the case in the Wisconsin prison system either. (4)

That said observant Orthodox jews can now smoke cannabis following a ruling by the Orthodox Union, the largest kosher certification agency in the world, that is kosher and no longer treif. (5)

So in Orthodox Judaism you can smoke kosher cannabis with impunity, but yet you think that eating any fish that don’t have scales is unclean and unhealthy.

Right…

Perhaps this is why it has turned out – to no one’s great surprise – that jewish caterers are… well… jewing other jews out of their money by inflating their prices beyond what is reasonable for providing kosher meals. (6)

If they are behaving like this with each other: what do you think they are doing with the goyim who they regard as barely even human?

I wonder…


References


(1) http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/late...-animals-alive
(2) On this see the first hand descriptions of shochtim at work in Stephen Bloom, 2001, ‘Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America’, 2nd Edition, Harcourt: San Diego
(3) http://www.argusleader.com/story/new...ssed/92767558/
(4) http://www.jewishchronicle.org/2016/...osing-judaism/
(5) http://ireadculture.com/orthodox-rab...nnabis-kosher/
(6) http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/16...ulous-caterers

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