Middle East Focus: Fake Matzah, Kosher Bread, Halal Meat, Free Speech..........

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Fake Matzah, Kosher Bread, Halal Meat, Free Speech..........

“Israel's Chief Rabbinate is warning Israeli citizens to be on the lookout for pirate matzah and Jews are worried, a merchant said Wednesday. A week before the start of the holiday of Passover, Israeli police raided a warehouse containing a 7-ton stockpile of matzah with fake kosher certificates, according to a statement from the rabbinate. "I can't believe that someone would do something like that," said Roy Wolf, manager of a leading matzah factory in Israel, after receiving calls from concerned customers. Matzah is the flat, unleavened bread Jews eat during the weeklong holiday instead of regular bread. Matzah is made of flour and water and must be baked according to strict religious instructions, under supervision of a rabbi, to ensure that it does not rise like bread. The unleavened bread is a main feature of the weeklong Passover holiday, commemorating the biblical exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. The Bible says the fleeing people did not have time to bake ordinary bread, making do with flat, unleavened bread instead. The rabbinate published color photos of the fake matzah packages ordering local rabbis to post the statement in synagogues and other prominent places to warn Orthodox Jews to avoid the faked product. The rabbinate suspects that non-kosher flour was used to make the matzah. Eating such matzah on Passover would be the same, religiously, as eating bread…………”

More and more, Israelis are sounding like Arabs to me (in fact they are also looking more Arab with time). Maybe it rubs on, this proximity to the Arab world and the familiarity that breeds…….familiarity.
Now, if only they did not have free elections and speech. Oh well, nobody is perfect: so they can't join the Arab league. Big deal.
Cheers
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