Restaurant then sues Mashgiach for defamation
Martha joins Shimshon
Chabad bakes Matzos in Tunis
Today, nothing personifies Mesiras Nefesh like Reb Nissen Pinson in Tunis. Living in the former home to the PLO for close to 50 years has not been easy, especially with his health not being what it used to be, and age creeping up on him. Yet, he continues to provide services to the Hundreds of Jews still living in the Arab State, including these beautiful, big, round Matzos.
Being that there is no possible oversight over the OU, the only possible repercussion is the customers voting with their feet and abandoning Le Marais. Which is a pity. In a system with oversight, where an outside agency could come in without bias and judge, the truth would have a chance of coming out.
ReplyDeleteI have no words for the lightning striking twice. May Hashem have pity on us.
Tzig,
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about Martha, very sad and terrible bereavment for the kids.
Was this sudden?
She was not well for quite some time. Shimshon was actually in better health than her.
ReplyDeleteIronic, no?
Sad about the stocks,,,,
ReplyDeleteMashgiach: anyone who writes in bold is immediately suspect of being abnormal....
Tzig, I hate to give credit to Failed Scotty, but he has the connection of the Mashgiach as being our own Yitzchak Bitton of Raaya (and Rava) Mehemna fame. I don't know how much of Scotty's details of his personal situation are true though. Other had made a decent living through playing music in frum venues - Piamenta, Megama and later Moshe Yess, and others. MBD can be considered a Baal Teshuva as well for this purpose. Scotty went off the deep end on this, as usual.
ReplyDeleteOK, hmmmm, You know I don't read him, so I wouldn't know what he says.
ReplyDeleteI thought it may be that Bitton, but I was hoping that being that Bitton is such a common Sefardi name........
Just for your reference:
ReplyDeleteInteresting color photo of Bukharian Yiden in Samarkand (before revolution in Russia)
http://www.museum.ru/museum/1812/Memorial/PG/pic/04442v.jpg
It was made before the invention of color photography(!) using the method of making 3 negatives with red green and blue filters. It was restored to digital color image in our time using programmatic methods.
This is the only photo of Yiden made by that photographer, I believe.
col has the picture of the matzeiva of the Rebbe's cousin. Let's get the discussion started here (beat tzemach...)
ReplyDeleteI already commented there about the peleh that he was born and passed away on the same day (or one day apart)
Chozeh
You should give equal time for the OU response!
ReplyDeleteIs there an OU response? send it to me and I'll post it.
ReplyDeleteI wonder whether the Samarkand photo was not taken in Jerusalem at the turn of the century. Please check this .Jerusalem had a large Bukharian jewish population in those days.
ReplyDeleteWhat;s there to discuss concerning the Rebbe's cousin.
ReplyDeleteHe obviously was not part of the orthodox community.
Perhaps a new matzeva should be palced with the appropriate Hebrew description and perhaps he should be moved to a Jewish cemetary in Russia.
On the subject , why has there hardly been any "human interest story "about the Rebbe's niece Dalia Roitman. What her feelings are anout her late uncle, personal stories, her family her feeling towards Chabad as a group family traditiions etc .Have either K.CH. or BM ever had sucha feature ?
A friend of mine visited her years ago and noticed a large portrait fof her father in the living room wall.
Dalia visited her uncle in New York on at least one occassion, and those that know say that it was a very warm and friendly meeting. Chazkel Besser was the liason between them and the Rebbe, even being the Sandek at their son's Bris. Maybe you can ask him.
ReplyDeleteThe OU response contains at least one paragraph that strikes me as disingenuous:
ReplyDeleteAnother allegation is that the OU chose to defend the chef for financial considerations. This accusation is absurd. Had the OU insisted that the chef be dismissed, it would have had no financial impact on the OU, as Le Marais would readily have complied. Indeed, the easiest course for the OU would have been for the OU to ask the restaurant to dismiss this chef, and the whole matter would have been put to rest.
The person who wrote that must surely have been aware of how the OU came to pick up the Le Marais contract in the first place: following a confrontation between the chef and the OK's mashgiach, the OK demanded that the chef be fired, and the restaurant chose instead to go shopping for a new hechsher. Given this record of standing by its chef against its hechsher, the OU cannot possibly have believed that "Le Marais would readily have complied" with a similar request this time.
Anyone considering eating at Le Marais now should think hard about this question: Taking this history into account, suppose that the new mashgiach sees something wrong in the kitchen, what do you suppose he will do? Will he dare to make a fuss at the first sign of something wrong, knowing what happened to the last mashgiach to do so, or will he be tempted to look the other way, to give the restaurant the benefit of any possible doubt, to rely on any kula he can think of, rather than make waves and get involved in a possible risk to his career?
I was thinking about restaurants that were dropped for kashrus violations by other hashgachas and then picked up by the OU
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of them. Then there is Rubashkin.
OY!