Voices
You need deep pockets indeed to ‘Go kosher’
Sunday morning February 22 – a beautiful morning, sunshine, birds singing, and the streets are lined with eye-catching posters exhorting us all to “Go kosher”. How nice. Everyone likes kosher, it’s clean, hygienic, healthy and available. And halachic. And blessed.
Bev Goldman
Nothing for lunch – rush into the Hypermarket, pick up a (small and somewhat miserable) kosher roast chicken for R99, noting that the price per kg is R102. Sigh – the price of being kosher.
Oh well, there have been moves afoot to investigate and perhaps even lower the costs, and if this is the result, so be it.
Drive home – stop at the Norwood Spar for fresh fruit. Out of curiosity I price the cost of non-kosher roast chickens, healthy and rotund. Price per kg, R49,99.
“Go kosher”. Am I missing something?
“Go kosher”. Seriously?
“Go kosher”. You must be kidding.
Johannesburg
Not important
February 27, 2015 at 8:37 am
‘Kosher food, these days, is for people with the financial means. Ordinary folk, pensioners, newly marrieds for example, would be hard-pressed to \”go kosher\”, even crazy when comparing costs with non-kosher goods. As for Pesach – oy vey!’
Basil Katzenellenbogen
February 28, 2015 at 6:04 pm
‘It’s over a year now since our Chief Rabbi boldly announced his \”Brozin Investigation\”. Where is the report?
i have written to the Chief Rabbi but did not receive a response, not even an acknowledgement of receipt.
A big noise was made about this new initiative. Now let’s see the results.
we demand to see the report.
‘
Arnold
March 1, 2015 at 12:35 pm
‘Hear hear Basil, but you can whistle till you’re blue in the face before you see that report. It didn’t show what they hoped it would, so it gets buried along with so much else.’