Posted on 04/13/2019 4:46:22 PM PDT by matt04
The Stop & Shop at 112 Amity Road, which was open Friday but picketed by striking workers, offers a large selection of foods that are kosher for Passover because of the Jewish population in and near the Westville section, which isn’t as large as it once was but still is sizable.
“I’m lucky in that I happen to have done a lot of my Passover shopping. To buy the rest I won’t cross the picket line,” said Rachel Bashevkin of Westville, who is on the board of Congregation Beth El-Keser Israel. Recommended Video
She said the Amity Stop & Shop offers “both essential things and then really delicious desserts and sweet things,” with a large segment of the store devoted to kosher foods. “The have two rows the entire depth of the store and another table,” Bashevkin said.
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Bashevkin said the strike and the decision of whether to cross the picket line is especially significant for Jews approaching Passover, Pesach in Hebrew, because the holiday is “about our rejoicing in freedom from enslavement but a message that we also need to free others and we’re eating this festival meal and we need to feed others.”
“The message of Passover is to me totally [that] you don’t celebrate your holiday at the expense of other people,” she said.
Rabbi Jon-Jay Tilsen of Beth El-Keser Israel said in an email, “Any food purchased by crossing a picket line or from scab workers is not kosher for Passover.” He said it is “a matter of well-established Jewish law.
(Excerpt) Read more at nhregister.com ...
I’m sure there’s a BigY nearby
Didn’t know crossing picket lines to buy food isn’t kosher. I’ll have to ask my Jewish friend who is a rabbi...
Yes it was, bought out by a Dutch company in 1996
https://stopandshop.com/about/our-history/
As to the Unions, who knows
Oy Vey!
This is BS. There are tons of other places to shop.
I am no fan of unions, but cross the line or go somewhere else.
Passover is remembering how God protected his people from death of the first born children. I'm not sure she understands what passover means.
I always liked Stop & Shop and I support the strike because I know they were cutting back on hours for hard-working people and hiring idiots at reduced hours.
They have an excellent “int’l” section and as well as a Jewish section during the holidays. But so do many other stores at this time of year.
Union loyalty is your ultimate value?
Remedial Catechesis in the First Commandment REQUIRED!
Those quoted in the article seem to think it seems busting unions is awful.
Moses seems like he would have been a conservative to me.
Maybe these folks should read up again on what it is they’re celebrating and HOW they extracted not crossing union picket lines as a central part of it.
Ah, the infamous east coast “stop ‘n rob,” heard of a lot in police videos.
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That was obviously a Reform “rabbi” pontificating about Jewish law and labor unions-—as usual, making it up as he went along. I don’t think there were any labor unions in the time the Torah was given.
Order from Amazon. They’ll deliver to your door. It’s Kosher.
Passover has been celebrated for over 3500 years. How old is Stop & Shop?
LOL!!
This as part of a liberation story — however, what is being taken as “slavery” in this case is really silly — it’s a mundane matter of negotiation at most.
Jews ought to be telling the unions to get a sense of perspective!
NO ONE has more kosher selection than Stop and Shop. It IS a big hardship for Jews there. But this fake deformed "rabbi" isn't helping matters.
Is there something wrong with making your own? I know it’s easier to buy premade, especially when faced with a double Sabbath. But then, thats what freezers are for. After all, the prepackaged matzoh is months to weeks old. I just make mine fresh.
In the Hartford area the “go to” place for Kosher food is the Crown Market in Bishops Corner, West Hartford.
Stop and Shop is not in their league.
(I grew up in that town.)
Yeah, well, they’ll manage fine, thanks.
I went To a Seder at a synagogue. There was a lesbian rabbi. On the Seder plate was an orange. AN ORANGE. The lesbian Rabbi explained that the orange on the seder plate is a symbol of the fruitfulness for all Jews when lesbians, gay men and Other marginalized people are contributing and active members of Jewish life.” ... We include the orange on the Seder plate to show that, indeed, a woman belongs on the bimah.”
Likening the plight of rich gays to the Jews fleeing Egypt made me choke on my matzah. There is nothing these people will not desecrate.
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