Jews face having to find Passover foods without Stop & Shop

New Haven Register ^

[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.

[HiTech RedNeck]

That’s what you get from the left, when EVERYTHING is subsumed to the Social Justice War. They do it to Jewish traditional practice. They do it to Christian gospel.

To make everything about the Social Justice War is to lose the very principles that it was supposed to be about.

[Eleutheria5]

It’s not even real justice. Unions on strike are always right? Food bought from scab labor is not even kosher? Management has no legitimate side to the dispute? It’s totalitarian.