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Posted on 09/22/2006 8:31:16 AM PDT by presidio9
Just in time for the High Holy Days, a pair of prominent Jewish leaders are putting the City Council's two Jewish aldermen on notice: They risk incurring the wrath of God if they push to repeal Chicago's foie gras ban.
"Beyond the Kosher dietary laws, God has told us to do what is 'good and proper in the eyes of God,'" Rabbi Asher Lopatin of Anshe Sholom B'Nail Israel Congregation wrote to Aldermen Burton F. Natarus (42nd Ward) and Bernard Stone (50th Ward).
Jana Kohl, former director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, accused Natarus and Stone of reneging on a "vow" made personally to Kohl to support the foie gras ban as a statement against animal cruelty.
In an angry letter to the two political cohorts, Kohl promised to do "everything in my power to defeat your misguided efforts."
"As the only two Jewish members of the Council, it's particularly shameful and disgraceful of you to turn your back on our cherished concept of 'tikun olam,' namely our obligation to make our world a better, more compassionate place," wrote Kohl, whose grandfather founded Kohl's department stores.
Stone categorically denied that he had promised Kohl he would stand behind a foie gras ban approved by the City Council on April 26 by a vote of 48 to 1.
Natarus could not be reached for comment.
The Illinois Restaurant Association and a coalition of chefs have filed a lawsuit that seeks to overturn a foie gras ban that has made sarcastic headlines around the world.
The proposed repealer was quietly filed with the city clerk's office four weeks ago.
Last week, Daley said a repeal was the next item on his legislative agenda.
In a telephone interview Monday, Kohl argued that Judeo-Christian ethics and precepts mandate that animals
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Have you ever eaten at the Lovells at Forest Lake? It's owned by the commander of Apollo 13, Jim Lovell. His oldest son is head chef.
Separation of church and State is what needs to be yelled back at the holier than tho persons..
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It really is quite snooty to mention another freeper in your post without pinging them.
It was nothing personal. It was, you know, business.
I believe that the geese are permanently crated and force fed; that is cruel. Raising and slaughtering critters for food is fine with me; cruelty is not.
Excellent. More foie gras for the rest of us!
No, never have. I understand you are being relaunched in HD new technology to bodly go where you went before. Happy travels again.
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Who do you think wanted the ban?
More Libroid pseudo-Jews, unable (actually, 'unwilling' would be more accurate)to understand the difference between the ancient Mosaic call for social justice and the ancient evil of socialism.
I have an idea that will solve the foie gras dilemma. Use ducks instead of geese.
The use of the recently discovered "Quantum Duck" will allow the ducks to be force fed while at one location, but simultanously making possible the duck remaining peacefully in its cage.
Indeed, "Quantum ducks" could theoretically be free range raised and still be force fed. OOPS! Make that "free pond" ducks.
Beware the Quantum Duck - QUARK! QUARK!
Other advantages are that no one's "goose will be cooked" and the Chinese restaurant industry will have more ducks available. The price of Pekin Duck will accordingly drop until it can compete with tube steaks and Burger Biggies.
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If they're orthodox? Protesting. If they're reform? Abetting and encouraging it, likely.
That is how I see it...
You believe wrong. Educate yourself.
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