Posted on 04/13/2019 4:46:22 PM PDT by matt04
He has Snackwells which are very popular but sometimes with the so-called fat-free cookies people may overindulge forgetting they may be high in calories.
Only leftists use religion as an excuse for pushing their real faith: leftism, socialism, communism.
This is good news for Big Y.
I just want to add that, if I were the hiring manager at a Big Y, I would never hire someone who listed Stop and Shop on their resume. Why let that crap in?
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A quick look at google maps shows several other large grocers within a mile of the 2 Stop and Shops in central New Haven. No one will starve for want of Kosher for Passover food nor will anyone be forced to cross the picket line. Unless they want to.
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.
I suppose that means what the meaning of well-established is. IMO it transcends the opinions of a couple of 21st century Rabbis whomever they may be.
Most people trace the birth of the union movement to the late 19th century. Guilds were quite different from unions, primarily in that they're protecting the craftsman/entrepreneur/capitalist, not laborers within his trade. Apprentices were not organized. But that could move the timeline back to the early middle ages. Include collegium/collegia you can move the clock back to Rome. I'm not aware of any mention of these organizations in the Talmud or Torah supporting the idea that not crossing a picket line. Excepting the Romans, Guilds as westerners think of them were a mid to late medieval concept western European concept. At the time most of Western Europe was Judenrein.
I suspect the Rabbi is operating from the assumption that striking union workers are defacto persecuted, and creating a ban from that. If that's true, it would extend to Kosher food in general, as well as non food items.
I'm reminded of an explanation I've heard twice from Reform Rabbis that abortion isn't the taking of a life, they'd ever deny it's the taking of a potential life which is how Judaism would view it, rather the removal of a body part. Also a serious transgression as one might think for a religion which bans tatoos. One question which can't be answered, given the rare but very serious mental illness, Body integrity identity disorder (BIID) and the lack of a pharmaceutical or theraputic cure, would Judaism support voluntary amputation of a limb. More important, where in the civilized, or uncivilized, world can a BIID sufferer go for a legal amputation. Excluding a criminal act in some Muslim nations. IMO Union members as the persecuted is the same thing. Unions would tell you their members are in a position superior to the non unionized. And in any case through most of history laborers have lived at a lower living standard than union members, even minimum wage workers, in the US.
The Passover was also instituted to point to the Paschal Lamb who would be sacrificed for all.
No one is truly kosher by Jewish law as the necessary temple sacrifices can no longer be made. This rabbi must be a democrat — he makes it uo as he goes along
“More important, where in the civilized, or uncivilized, world can a BIID sufferer go for a legal amputation.”
There is the chopadickoffame operation, commonly known as “sex change,” demanded by a certain sort of BIID sufferer.
So did I.
In my community we have a Stop & Shop, a Shaw’s, A Market Basket, and a Big Y within a two-mile stretch of the highway. I can walk to any of them.
They all have an entire aisle devoted to various ethnic foods, and special “Kosher For Passover” displays.
All of which make the rabbi’s pronouncement a nothingburger on a big soft fluffy roll, with bacon and cheese. (NOT Kosher! LOL!)
Good grief. Connecticut is right next to New York City. If you want kosher stuff, just get in the car and go to New York City. When I was doing construction in Charleston, we used to go into the local Piggly Wiggly and they had kosher food. Stop n Shop is not the only kosher outlet. As to what Jewish Law has to say about crossing picket lines or patronizing stores which have picket lines, I don’t know. It never came up in my experience. The alleged “well-settled law” sounds made up, however, by some leftard Reform Rabbi.
Mendota Heights, MN, is a suburb south of the Minnesota River where a lot of Jews migrated as the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul deteriorated.
White flight, just like in Connecticut and Long Island and Jersey, everyone fleeing the big city. Story of suburbia. But there aren’t enough suburbs in the tri-state area or upstate for all the Jews in NYC. Communities remained and toughed it out, and there’s still plenty of kosher food there.
And isn’t there an all-kosher market a few blocks down the street? It’s probably ‘too Jewish’ for the fake rabbi.
There is also Shop Rite which carries Jewish kosher as well.
The story that followed the flight from Egypt should have made it clear that the Lord has certain ways that’re wiser than man’s. And one of those ways is that He’s not kidding when it comes to keeping sex special to heterosexual marriage. To do it otherwise is, at best, the sin of presumption, and laden with pitfalls.
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