Posted on 03/23/2009 7:26:03 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
It was an all-out frankfurter frenzy this week at a popular Jewish restaurant in Brooklyn, as a certain hot dog caused a near-riot.
It's not what you would expect: a worker in a NYC eatery caught on tape fending off a group of Jewish patrons with an electric knife.
"I was petrified – stuff was going through my mind," a patron who didn't want his name used said. "I want to live. I don't want to get stabbed for a hot dog."
The long-time patron says the chaos broke out when he and a rabbi noticed the frankfurters on the grill were non-Kosher, in a restaurant that's supposed to be dishing out the Kosher variety.
"The package didn't look Kosher," the patron said. "It was the last piece in the package."
Some customers were quick to defend the worker, who was surrounded by, according to some witnesses, a hundred enraged people.
"He just got angry," the patron said. "He wasn't about to do anything to the guys."
The rabbi, who originally certified the Shawarma King restaurant Kosher, has written a letter to the community in a Jewish newspaper. In the letter, he calls the frankfurter mix-up a "terrible mistake."
"It was a one-time incident," Borough Park resident Yosi Stern, who translated the Yiddish letter for CBS 2, said. "They caught it before it was even served to the consumers."
The rabbi tells the community that a worker was sent out to buy hot dogs, and that he went to the wrong market and bought non-Kosher hot dogs.
Neighbors say the owner is an honest man.
"He's a very religious man," one neighbor says. "He studies every morning, and he's not the type of guy to fool people."
The popular spot on 13th Avenue was shut down for several days as rabbis examined the premises for non-Kosher food, and threw out equipment that came in contact with the uncertified meat.
Customers, and the restaurant's owner, say they're hoping similar incidents don't come up in the future.
The restaurant's owner says that, in addition to throwing out equipment, utensils were cleansed with a flame to purge any pieces of the non-Kosher food.
NEW YORK
Hillary Rodham Clinton scored a major victory with Jewish Democrats in New York and New Jersey last week in Super Tuesday voting.
But Barack Obama won a majority of Jewish support in Connecticut and Massachusetts — and the battle was close in California.
According to exit polls, Clinton took 65 percent of the Jewish primary vote in New York state, which she represents in the U.S. Senate, and 63 percent in neighboring New Jersey, compared to Obama’s 35 percent in New York and 37 percent in New Jersey. She captured both states in the overall voting.
But Obama made a strong showing in Connecticut, which he won, with 61 percent of the Jewish vote to 38 percent for Clinton. In Massachusetts, which Obama lost, the Illinois senator edged Clinton in the Jewish vote, 52 percent to 48 percent.
Clinton also won the night's biggest prize, a majority of the 440 delegates at stake in California, but neither candidate could claim a majority of the Golden State's Jewish voters. Clinton took 48 percent of the Jewish vote there and Obama 44 percent. John Edwards, who withdrew from the race on Jan. 30, won the support of 8 percent of Californian Jews.
On the Republican side, Jews comprised such a small percentage of voters that finding a reliable statistical snapshot of their preferences was nearly impossible.
Exit poll data were reported by MSNBC based on polling conducted by Edison/Mitofsky.
http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/15290/
It seems that Orthodox either voted for Hillary or for 0bama in the primary, as there wasn't even enough Republican votes to report a valid sample of any sort. I expect this is likely the truth across the board with New York's Orthodox Jews in the normal election.
I did read that in 2000, 70% of the Orthodox vote went to Gore.
“The popular spot on 13th Avenue was shut down for several days as rabbis examined the premises for non-Kosher food, and threw out equipment that came in contact with the uncertified meat.”
Equipment is expensive, I hope they at least re-sold it for non-kosher use?
The stats are well-established, and there are repeated threads and posts on F.R.
The Dhim/Republican split between observant Jews vs. non-observant Jews is directly inverse: 72/28 vs. 28/72.
Or you could just google “orthodox vote republican”
Rabid folks there! I completely understand a person’s desire to limit their diet to specific foods and preparation methods. But these folks went off the deep end without so much as an opportunity for the store owner to defend himself.
What I find even more absurd - had the preparation been out of sight, these folks would have likely never known, and would also, I believe, never known any different.
The mistake was caught, and apparently the owner is out some money - as they made him throw out equipment and utensils that had come in contact with the no-kosher dogs.
But to make a worker fear for his life? Please.
And a side note... I pray that some day, these sadly mislead folks will have their blind eyes opened to the truth that Christ liberated us from the Law, and that consuming that hotdog, assuming no other food allergy is involved, will not condemn them to hell, but their unbelief in Christ Jesus, the Messiah they have chosen to ignore, WILL.
Don't they know the difference?
Sounds like the way Arabs behave.
Wrong. The Orthodox Jews at that restaurant voted for McCain. They just tend not to be polled for exit polling.
Gennice: My grandmother died.
Jerry: Oh, I’m so sorry.
Gennice: Oh, it’s okay,
Jerry: So you don’t cry when your grandmother dies? But a hotdog makes you lose control?
A gentile Christian was never under the Law of Moses.
There was a famous rabbi that said a man isn’t defiled by what goes into him, but by what comes out of him.
so true
I totally sympathize. Who wants to eat lips and a$$holes ?
Hmmm
American Jews that care enough to keep kosher on this level tend to vote more conservatively (and more Republican) than the generally secular Democrat population so your comments, which are targeting all Jews because of what some Jews choose to do, are inaccurate and a bit ugly.
The truth is in between. The Exit Polls and the Jewish Vote
There are certainly observant Jews who tend to vote Democrat, but it is not at the level of the secular, reform, and otherwise labeled Jews who show up in the surveys. I think of them as more like conservative Catholics in terms of political comparison. Should we blame the Catholics for the Democrat ascendancy ?
why? because they do not worship that guy nailed to a piece of wood?
lemme guess, you'll say they are idiots simply because they supported obama. i guess your anti-semitism needs to be qualified to make you fell better.
from what i have seen, the lower-level workers are rarely jewish. they usually hail from a central/south american country.
I, too, have noticed the similarities between the ways of the Arabs, and the strictly devout Jews.
Funny, isn't it?
If Jews wouldn’t have rejected Jesus, they wouldn’t have to go around inspecting weenies.
Amen. The Jews need to realize that because of Christ’s death on the cross, His burial, resurrection, and ascension, there is no need to observe the ceremonial part of the Mosaic Law. The food laws don’t apply, because Jesus declared all foods clean and because Paul said that every creature God made is good for food. As for the Passover, Christ fulfilled that with His death on the cross. He fulfilled the Feast of Unleavened Bread with His burial. He fulfilled First Fruits with His resurrection. As for the Sabbath, Christ (not the Catholic Church) changed the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday, by rising from the dead on Sunday. As for circumcision, it is spiritual circumcision, not physical circumcision, that counts. All believers, whether Jew or Gentile, are the spiritual circumcision. As for fasting, it is OK to fast, and certainly all of us should do it from time to time, it doesn’t matter what day or how often.
Jesus is the person who was nailed to the cross. The cross was not just a piece of wood. It was necessary for our salvation. And as for worshiping Him, I worship Him and every other Christian does, too. One day, and that will be the final judgment, every knee will bow to Him and every tongue will confess that He is Lord. But you don’t need to wait until then. You can do it now. If you wait until the final judgment, it will be too late.
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