The Scam That Is Costing Us Billions

KOSHER EXTORTION

So many people just fail to grasp the extent of jewish control in our daily lives. Quite a few people are aware of most of what the jews are up to in our world but these people think that as long as jewish malfeasance doesn’t affect them personally that they don’t wish to make waves by taking any sort of stand against jewish crime. The jews have indeed touched all our lives and have poisoned our wells to toxic levels. Most people though simply turn a blind eye to jewish terrorism around the world whether it’s the killing of innocent Palestinians or Lebanese with illegal weaponry or anything else this criminal race of creatures is up to in our world. Foolish gentiles who believe this coward’s credo(see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil) have no idea that, not only has jewish crime crossed their sacred thresholds, that their entire lives and private worlds are completely influenced and/or run by hidden jewish hands.

The vast majority of Americans have no idea about what the hell the jewish Federal Reserve system is and don’t seem to care either, nor have much of any clue about the Holohoax extortion scam(HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE), or anything else these malevolent rats are up to in our world. See THIS for further information on the Fed—you will soon see the kosher conspiracy it is and that there’s nothing “federal” about this jewish counterfeiting scam.

When it comes to food most of us take this personally, we want good, wholesome food free of chemicals and other crap. Maybe, just maybe, you will finally be stirred to action when you here about how, with each bite of food, you are supporting a bunch of rabbi parasites and the crimes that these monsters carry out elsewhere apart from their crimes of extortion relating to our food.

Why should you should care if kikes are extorting your money with each bite of food you eat? Or every time you use a piece of foil, wash your hands, use cleanser to scrub your toilet or just about anything else you do around your house? Yeah, that includes using your kosherized steel frying pan that you made your bacon and eggs with this morning!

Well, it’s extortion—and most of you have no idea that you are being fleeced everyday in this way—others believe the lies from jewish lips that this racket doesn’t even exist. I have been screaming about this racket for years and despite only a very small fraction of jews demanding kosherized foods(for religious reasons) this scam just gets bigger with every year—now it’s almost impossible to find any product in you supermarket that hasn’t been hit and marked by these jewish vampires including many other non-food products that require no kosherization under jewish dietary law—yet are being unnecessarily kosher taxed for fun and profit anyway.

Here’s a brief explanation of what is going on here and it is followed by an example of how this scam works—and keep in mind, either a company submits to kosherization or jewish distributors and jew run supermarkets will refuse to stock your products. Resistance does seem futile for a company that does not wish to pay the tax—it is up to us to put a total end to this extortion and run these predatory creatures into the sea:

The Kosher Tax is an outrageous example of jewish control on our every day lives. Go to your cupboard and examine your food’s packaging; it’s very likely you will find a circled U or K on each package. These symbols are not to be confused with the circled C or R, which are copyright and registered trademark notices; they are symbols that indicate that the product has been “blessed” and that you have paid a tax for this service. The “fee” for the blessing, is paid by the corporation that manufactures the product, and must be paid for each product made, so a company like General Foods can pay hundreds of these “fees” each year. These “fees” are passed on to you, the consumer, regardless of whether you are jewish or not.

It’s extremely difficult to find accurate information on just how much money these Jewish Extortionists are making on the kosher tax scam, because of the stranglehold jews have on the media, and their ability to control the availability of information to the public. Jewish Protection groups like the Anti Defamation League successfully sway the public by dismissing the kosher tax as a “propaganda hoax” by right wing fanatics to encourage anti-semetic beliefs, because there are almost no publicly available facts to prove otherwise. It’s easy to see through their explanations however, using simple logic and math: In a “Kosher tax Hoax” article on the ADL’s website (which can be found here.), the ADL claims that “The cost to the consumer for this service is a miniscule fraction of the total production overhead; it is so negligible in practical terms as to be virtually non-existent.” listing a General Foods product as an example, saying the cost is somewhere around .0000065 of a cent per item. Assuming that’s true, let’s multiply that by however many products General Foods manufactures, then multiply that by the number of sales of those products since their certification. Obvioulsy I don’t know how much that would be, but common sense dictates that .0000065 of a cent, multiplied enough times, can become a substantial amount of money.

So why is it that this system exists? And why would companies choose to participate? Jews claim it is a harmless practice that benefits the companies by expanding the market of the product to the jewish population. But the jewish population counts for such a small percentage of America’s population, yet virtually EVERY product is kosher, and we must ALL pay for it. This is again because of the jewish powers over the media and business worlds, if a company were to refuse to pay for the “blessing” they would be boycotted and bankruptcy would soon follow, the proof being that not many products go without the kosher symbol.

The idea that we, gentiles, must pay extra to eat food that is “fit for a jew is ridiculous”, and yet impossible to avoid, because the tax is everywhere, on foods, plastic cling wrap, and even dish soap!

Source: Box Tax List 1892 http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak/seta.htm

*Jewish Communities and Box and Candle Tax Lists*

Since we only had a few revision lists in our holdings we started to look for other possible sources of information. We came across the so-called Box and Candle tax payers lists. You may be tired of explanations of what these taxes are. I’ll give you just one more explanation of them. My knowledge is based strictly on the records. The problem is that the records do not always coincide with real life.

According to the records we have, the Candle tax was a tax paid by all the Jewish population, including the merchants, to support Jewish education, for the needs of the Jewish schools only. It was a tax on Sabbath candles. Perhaps it was collected by the rabbi’s wife, I’m not sure.

The Box tax was a different thing. It was a specific Jewish tax paid by the whole Jewish population, except for some higher professionals and perhaps merchants. It was a tax on every pound of Kosher meat sold by a butcher and purchased by a Jew, and on every animal slaughtered.

I still can’t figure out how it was done. It should have been collected by the butcher, I see no other way, but I don’t know how it was done. And where was the box? In the butcher’s house or where? I don’t know. But the government for the administration of the Box tax used to announce a public auction, and the person who suggested collecting the largest sum was granted the right to collect the Box tax for a few years, four years in a certain area.*3* <http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak/vitnotes.htm>

With these tax measures the Box tax was collected. To estimate the sum expected they had to make an estimate of the Jewish population. Who would buy and eat meat and who should pay the tax? Thus we have these lists of tax payers of Candle taxes for 1845 and 1846, and various later lists for Box taxes: for 1877, 1888, 1892, and for some Jewish communities for 1904, 1908, and 1912, but it’s different for different Jewish communities.

When they started organizing the process of collecting Box and Candle taxes they had to introduce certain administrative reforms. In 1843, when Kaunas Guberniya was formed, taxes were collected and Jews were administrated by their Kahal. In 1844 the Kahal was abolished and to collect the taxes the government, or rather the Kaunas guberniya administration, created certain Jewish communities, but these Jewish communities were organized only for the collection of Box and Candle taxes.

From the 119 former Kahals, seventy-four such communities were formed in 1844. Some of the Kahals were combined into communities according to the population of the area. Here is the list showing the former Kahals and the new Jewish communities.

You see that for Kaunas District, the new Jewish communities were just about the same, except that Vandziogala and Babtai became one Jewish community – Vandziogala, and Seredzius, Veliuona and Cekiske were combined into Seredzius, and so on.

The jews quickly figured out that it would be much to their benefit to get everyone paying the tax—and on all sorts of items way beyond kosher meat. Think about the population of the U.S. and world, for that matter, and now consider that almost all food and non-food items you purchase at the market have been taxed ; now do some simple multiplication and think about it. So again, let’s go over some basics again so that the picture becomes even clearer for you if you haven’t already had your vision adjusted to 20/20 by the evidence already discussed:

“Hebrew” Korobochniks in the Minsk Gubernya in 1839

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This is a tabular version of a list from Issue Number 35 (September), 1839 Minsk Viedomosti (official newspaper), of Jewish “Korobochniks,” or businessmen who had successfully bid for the right to collect the “Box tax,” or taxes on the sale of kosher meat. The revenue covered the cost of community social welfare services.

The businessman, or business partners, who offered to collect the largest amount of Box taxes for a given area won the right to collect the taxes for a specified period of time and probably earned a flat fee or a percentage of the revenue to compensate them for their trouble. In this case, the period ran for the four-year period from 1840 to 1843.

The “korobochniks” were, in effect, performing municipal banking services. The ones who made sensible bids were probably smart, rich guys who knew their communities inside and out. You can read more about them on the JewishGen Litvak SIG Web site at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak/vital-p4.htm

When I transcribed the 1839 list, I put down the same ruble bid value for each partner involved in a deal for a particular community. If three men bid 300 rubles together for the Box tax rights for Springfield, Belarus, than I would put down 300 rubles for each of the three men, not 100 rubles.

The microfilm used to make this table came from the New York Public Library. You can see the film in the library’s Slavic and Baltic room, on the second floor. You CAN take films to the microfilm copy room on the first floor, but you MUST bring a photo ID, and using the copy room is a huge hassle. If you really want to make copies, make sure to get to the library early in the day, and get to the copy room by 2 p.m.

A.L. Bell, allbell@vnet.net, 14 Nov 1999

Isn’t funny now that these jews so adamantly deny what is readily admitted by them, truly a breed of two faced rats. Of course, this bitch in the above article knew that what she was admitting was damning but she was betting that almost no gentile would dig so deep in their archives to find this gem. So now, consider this:

The “Mythical Myth”
A Myth about a Myth about Something Real

Rebuttals of the Kosher Tax “myth” are themselves mythical

What do…

Arm&Hammer	baking soda
Reynold’s Wrap	aluminum foil
Dawn Ultra	dishwashing detergent
Comet	disinfectant with bleach
Ajax	laundry detergent
Mr. Clean	cleaner with ammonia
Lysol	all-purpose cleaner
Chinet	paper compartment plates
Hefty	styrofoam plates
Names in left column are registered as trademarks.

…have in common with most of the food items sold in supermarkets? They’re all certified KOSHER. It would be difficult, though perhaps not impossible, to find a package of powdered laundry detergent that does not display that telltale symbol of otherwise secret Jewish taxation.

The most common Jewish tax signs (hechshers), at least in my area, are the circled U symbol of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations (U), the circled K symbol of the Committee for the Furtherance of Torah Observance, a.k.a. the Organized Kashrus Laboratories (K), the K-inside-a-triangle symbol of Rabbi Joseph H. Ralbag’s personal certification business, and the K-with-a-leftward-bulge symbol of Beverly Hills Kosher, a.k.a. Kosher Overseers Associates of America.

The manager of one of the supermarkets where I was doing my research noticed me roaming the aisles using a pen to scrawl notes on a pad of paper. He asked what I was doing, so I told him. The effect of television brainwashing immediately possessed the man; the reaction was visible in his face, in his voice, and in his manner. He didn’t quite dare to order me out of the store, so he began a low-heat outrage routine that involved unusually energetic motions of his arms, much exaggerated shrugging of his shoulders, and frequent use of the phrase “So what?” When I told him “what” (as I will tell you shortly), he pretended not to hear, or, if he heard, not to find any significance. He was prepared to maintain his defensive “So what?” act forever, or until he could figure out a way to get the store employees to gang up and throw me out. I was nearly finished with my cataloging job by then anyway.

(I suppose that a White man who went down the grocery aisles putting kosher symbols on dog food, fish bait and pickled pig’s feet would be arrested for a hate crime. Maybe it would be called “hate copyright infringement” or something equally long and stupid sounding.)

Asserting that an actual conspiracy is “a myth” is among the Jews’ favorite disinformation techniques. Consider the Jewish denial about the Jewish control of banking. How often have you read something like this?

Did you fall for it? Do you really think that the fees that manufacturers pay to Jewish rabbis, in exchange for permission to stamp the hechsher (any of the Kosher certification symbols) on food products makes the overall cost of making that product less? Even if we assume that some people actively seek out kosher-certified products, remember that there are also quite a few people who, given any reasonable alternative, would choose to avoid them. Most of the people who don’t bear the Jews any grudge over their long history of exploiting other races nonetheless don’t regard it as proper for Jews to be issuing certifications on everybody’s food.

First, increased demand usually drives prices up, not down. If kosher foods were more in demand than non-kosher equivalents, then the kosher foods would naturally command a higher price. (That’s also why “name brands” cost more than their generic equivalents.) The scheme works only when either of two conditions prevails: there are no non-kosher substitute of comparable quality is available or most people are ignorant or apathetic about the certification business. That’s an important point to understand because it explains why the rabbis are so anxious that there be no grocery vendor allowed to sell food and kitchen products without getting their “blessing” and why the Jews defend the kosher certification business with glib lies, such as “Too many people seem to believe that kosher certification results in higher prices, when, in fact, due to increased sales, quite the opposite is true.” Uhhhh-huh.

Second, if kosher-certification more than pays for itself in reduced grocery prices—it doesn’t but let’s suppose that it did—then maybe a “Christian” certification would do the same thing even better. We may certainly ask ourselves why other groups haven’t started up the same kind of food-inspection operation. Many groups could use a little extra money. If Jewish rabbis can do it, then so can some organization of Christian clergymen—but they aren’t. For that matter, the Boy Scouts of America could do it. Why aren’t the Health Clubs of America lobbying the food manufacturers into accepting their certification symbols, too, for a suitable fee? Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to add Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Hare Krishna inspectors’ stamps of approval also. And, as long as the price of the food just keeps coming down, why not let the Boy Scouts, the Health Clubs of America, and the American Vegetarians in on the game? WHY ARE THE JEWS THE ONLY PRIVATE GROUP ABLE TO GET THEIR MARKS ON OUR FOOD? On inspection, that fact implies racketeering, and the impression doesn’t go away when you investigate the kosher labeling system further. The Jews’ claims about lowering the price of food with their kosher certifications are fraudulent.

Don’t fall for the “You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy kosher foods” ruse. (The Jews have a clever propaganda poster showing an American Indian, feather in his hair, dressed up in Orthodox Jewish black robes and eating kosher bread.) The point is not whether kosher-certified foods taste good. They often do—though being kosher has nothing to do with it. The point is whether the Jews have, or do not have, the right to stick Jewish labels on everybody’s food. The Jews could safely buy kosher certified foods at special Jewish food stores that cater especially to their dietary requirements, without burdening everybody with certifications made especially for them. But then they couldn’t get the gentiles to subsidize the business, could they?

Likewise, don’t fall for that bit of misdirection about “most people who use kosher products aren’t Jews.” To be sure, that is true. The lie isn’t in what they tell you, but in what they imply without telling you. The deception is the idea that the non-Jews “seek out” kosher products simply because they have been certified by rabbis. That is the lie. The fact is, the kosher certification scam has become so widespread, and the labeling of products so ubiquitous, that many people can’t find non-certified alternatives. They must buy kosher certified foods or go without many kinds of foods. I suppose that if you wanted to go on a strict diet of dry dogfood, then you could avoid the kosher label, but there’s no way for you to have a reasonably proper diet without paying the Jewish food tax. Don’t believe me? Try an experiment: Go to the supermarket nearest you and try to find a brand of mustard, or pickles, or tuna fish that doesn’t have one of those kosher symbols on them.

Besides that, why are most brands of laundry detergent labeled kosher? You don’t eat it. Its quality isn’t affected by the Jewish dietary laws. And yet its manufacturer has paid (and the rabbis have accepted the payment) to have a hechsher stuck on the package. Why would anybody “seek out” Tide detergent for having a kosher label? Answer: they don’t. (Since I began this page a few days ago, I found a package of Clorox powdered laundry detergent that didn’t have a hechsher on it, but that’s the only brand that doesn’t have one, as far as I know.) Likewise for steel wool and kitchen utensils, which have also been known to carry the kosher symbols—as if to say, “The manufacture of this brand of stainless steel has been examined by rabbis and has been found to contain nothing contrary to Jewish dietary laws.” (Did God give Moses a limit on how much chromium could be in the alloy?)

Someone who didn’t understand that kosher certification is a scam aimed at making suckers out of Gentile shoppers, believing instead that it was only a way to assure the Jews that their food was religiously correct, would have to conclude that Jews enjoy eating paper, aluminum foil and styrofoam and drinking detergent, ammonia and bleach. Of course, most Gentiles aren’t stupid enough to reach that conclusion, so in practice their choices are either realizing that the Jews are swindling them by taxing trade or refusing to think about it. Too many Gentiles, unfortunately, make the latter choice. Mostly, people who buy kosher-certified goods aren’t aware that Jewish organizations are taxing kitchen products by selling manufacturers permission to use the little kosher symbols. That people BUY kosher certified goods does not imply that they are “seeking out” kosher certified goods, regardless of what the Jews want you to think.

And is everything really on record? Try an experiment: find out, if you can, how much a certification really costs. I can’t find this information anywhere, but according to the American Defense League, these rabbinical groups walk off with hundreds of millions of dollars annually from their (high-pressure) sales of kosher certification. While that might be only a fraction of these companies’ aggregate profits, there’s still plenty of reason to object to this substantial level of Jewish parasitism. For one thing, it provides the Jews with a continuing source of money with which they can, for example, lobby (or bribe) our politicians into making laws and policies in accordance with the Zionist agenda. If Americans would think for a change, they’d realize that any added cost to their grocery bills is the least of their problems with the kosher tax scam. Rabbi Harvey Sentor (of the Kov-K kosher certification group) admitted in The Jewish Post (30 July 1976) that kosher certification was “a profit-making concern.”

Don’t let the Jews fool you. Truly, they are excellent liars. If lying were a virtue, they’d be saints. But it’s not virtuous to swindle people out of their money, even if it is only a little money each time. If someone got rich by stealing the “roundoff error” (small fractions of a cent) on a large number of bank-to-bank transactions, he’d go to jail when he was caught. The principle involved with the kosher certification racket is very similar. Crime should not pay. Those involved should be required to return all of the extorted money, and punished with a prison sentence, and, when released from prison, should be banished from our country.

Here’s how the scammers sucker you in. You will notice that there isn’t any mention of price but if you explore the links here on this site about kosher taxation you will find that this shakedown usually starts off close to 10 grand a year even for small mom and pop operations—and that is per product that is kosherized.

10 Steps to Kosher Certification

1 CONTACTING THE OK
Your company contacts the OK Labs by phone (718-756-7500 ext. 209), fax (718-756-7503), e-mail (info@ok.org) via the supplied link, or in person (e.g., at a trade show). Rabbi Chaim Fogelman, our Rabbinic Coordinator specializing in guiding new applicants through the kosher certification process, will answer your preliminary questions. He will be your guide throughout the application procedure. Please note: The OK Labs has designed the most sophisticated computer system in the kosher certification industry to facilitate your kosher certification.

2 THE APPLICATION
The application is the first active step toward certification. Upon your request, a user-friendly application will be sent to you. The application, designed to accelerate the certification process, asks you to provide a list of ingredients (raw materials), product components and production processes.

Please note: The OK Labs will maintain all information concerning your company in the strictest confidence.

Click below to download the appropriate application forms for kosher certification. Application forms are in Adobe Acrobat format and you would need Acrobat Reader to view them. [ click here to download Acrobat Reader if you do not have it ]. Once you have downloaded the form, please print and complete your details and return it to our office for immediate attention.

click here for USA application form for kosher certification [103kb]
click here for International application form for kosher certification [114kb]

3 APPLICATION SUBMITTED
Return the application along with the required processing fee. This fee covers some of the pre-certification costs we incur. When the certification process has been successfully completed, we will deduct the application fee from your first year’s certification cost.

4 APPLICATION REVIEWED
Upon our receipt of your application and fee, a Rabbinic Coordinator who is an expert in your field of production will be assigned to oversee all matters that relate to your company. He will review the application and contact you with any questions he may have. He will also set a mutually convenient appointment to visit your manufacturing facility(ies) for an on-site physical inspection. At this time, the Rabbinic Coordinator will provide you with a non-binding estimate of the fees involved in providing kosher certification to you.

5 THE INITIAL VISIT
An initial, thorough inspection of the entire manufacturing facility(ies) will be performed by the Rabbinic Coordinator. This inspection gives us a comprehensive understanding of the unique nature of your facility(ies), so that your certification can proceed in a streamlined fashion. At this initial visit, the rabbi will detail the procedures that you will need to follow to receive and maintain kosher supervision.

6 RESOLVING FINAL DETAILS
Having finished his inspection, the Rabbinic Coordinator will issue a report to our headquarters. At this time, your annual fee will be set. It is determined on the basis of numerous factors, including the nature of your facility(ies), its location, and the amount of work required on our part. If any matters remain outstanding, we will work with you to resolve them.

7 REGULAR MONITORING
Part of our agreement with you involves monitoring your facility(ies). The OK has 300 field representatives around the world. One of these experts located in your area will be assigned to visit your facility(ies) on a regular basis. We make every effort to arrange these visits in the most economical way possible. In addition, one of our home office Rabbinic Coordinators will make an annual inspection of your facility(ies).

8 THE CONTRACT
A contract is now drawn detailing the agreement between the OK Labs and your company. The contract is sent to you for your review and your signed approval.

9 KOSHER CERTIFICATION BEGINS
Upon return of the signed contract along with the fee for your first year of supervision, we will issue a Kosher Certificate to you. The certificate details which of your products or facilities are under OK certification, and grants you the right to display our registered OK symbol on the certified products.

10 CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations! You are now certified kosher by the OK Labs, the most respected kosher supervision agency in the world. Your company’s name is now listed in the widely read Kosher Food Guide section of the The Jewish Homemaker, the international magazine of the OK Laboratories.

State Kosher Laws Struck Down By New Jersey Supreme Court

Jewish groups are dismayed at the recent New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that government regulations of the kosher food industry violates the constitutional separation of church and state.  The decision directly affects only New Jersey, but is expected to have wide ramifications in the 16 other states in which the government monitors the preparation and sale of kosher food.  Similar suits are likely to be brought in many of those other states.

In a 4-3 decision, the New Jersey court found that while the state is compelled to prevent fraud, the regulations “plainly violate” both state and federal constitutional prohibitions against the establishment of religion.  Justice Alan Handler, writing for the majority, said that the current regulations require government involvement in areas that should not be under its purview.

The regulations allow the state to determine whether food is prepared “in strict compliance with what the state itself believes to be the laws and customs of the Orthodox Jewish religion.”  In that respect, continued Handler, “the regulations do not police the nutritional quality or sanitary purity of kosher food, but only its religious purity.  In doing so, they create an unconstitutional entanglement of government and religion.”

This entanglement is illustrated by the fact that the people hired to enforce the regulations are clerical leaders, according to the decision.  The chief of the state’s Bureau of Kosher Enforcement is an Orthodox rabbi and the bureau’s advisory committee is made up of 10 rabbis–one Conservative and the rest Orthodox.  Any disagreements that involved the regulations “call inescapably on the state to assume a religious role,” wrote Handler.

The suit that led to the decision was filed by a kosher market, Ran-Dav’s Country Kosher in Linden, J.J.  The market filed suit after New Jersey’s Bureau of Kosher Enforcement charged its owner, Arthur Weisman, with violations on five inspections between 1987 and 1989.  A trade group, the New Jersey Alliance of Kosher Caterers, joined Weisman in the suit.

Ran-Dav’s owner claimed that his products were kosher according to the standards set by their own supervising Orthodox rabbi, Harry Cohen.  Some observers said the court’s ruling opens the door to the development of new standards of kashrut, such as Conservative and hasidic, in addition to the “mainstream Orthodox” standard regulated by the state.  But religious groups, and not just the Orthodox, take issue with the decision.

Though the state law defined kashrut according to “Orthodox Judaism,” the regulations never led to any interdenominational clashes, said Rabbi Alan Silverstein, incoming president of the New Jersey region of the Rabbinical Assembly, part of the Conservative movement.  “The overall value of this state protection has been to the benefit of the consumer who wants to buy kosher food.  The people who suffered were business in violation of the statutes,” he said.

Friend-of-the court briefs supporting the state’s position, were filed on behalf of the regional chapters of Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements, and by the American Jewish Congress.  Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox group, expressed “deep dismay” over the ruling and called it “an aberration.”

“All other courts that have considered such statutes have concluded that they are just like any other consumer protection measure,” said David Zwiebel, Agudah’s general counsel.  And according to Julius Berman, chairman of the Joint Kashrus Commission of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, “We are greatly troubled that protection for the kosher consumer has been put into question.”

“Kosher consumers are entitled to no less protection than the general consuming public.  It is no different than insuring that a Wheaties box on the supermarket shelf contains Wheaties and not Cheerios,” said Berman.  Nancy Erickson, a spokesperson for the New Jersey Department of Consumer Affairs, said that observers of kashrut will be promoted by the state’s consumer fraud laws until new kashrut regulations are developed.

New regulations may, for example, require vendors of kosher food to provide a list of ingredients to consumers and to declare which standards of kashrut they adhere to, she said.  The New Jersey ruling “reminds us, once again, that the prime responsibility for insuring kashrut does not lie with the state,” said Marc Stern, co-director of the American Jewish Congress’ legal department.

“This is sort of a wake-up call.  Rabbinic supervision now becomes more important,” he said.  “The state can only go so far in regulating religious responsibilities.”  Besides New Jersey, the other states laws governing kashrut are: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas.  There are similar regulations in some municipalities, including Baltimore, where the laws are being challenged in federal court, and in several towns in Florida.

The Midwest Jewish Week, 31Jul92, p. 4.

Finally, for the best kosher tax information-click HERE

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