Some people say J Street is too far to the left; others complain that it’s too far right. But there’s another, more basic reason for Jews to doubt J Street’s kashrut: Its food is literally not kosher.
When the food arrived, there was nothing kosher to be found–not even fruit. I was told by multiple J Street staffers that there were sandwiches for purchase across the building and yes, some of them were kosher.
You can guess what happened next. I arrived at the sandwich cart and requested the kosher option. I got a blank stare in return, and when I asked the manager she told me she had no idea what I was talking about. She hadn’t heard anything about kosher sandwiches. ...
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* In a New York Times profile, J Street's director Jeremy Ben-Ami boasted: "'The average age of the dozen or so [J Street] staff members is about 30,' Ben-Ami speaks for, and to, this post-Holocaust generation. 'They're all intermarried,' he says. 'They're all doing Buddhist seders.'"
If it is awful that an organization purporting to represent Jews has no kosher food on its conference site, then what is it that a country purporting to be a Jewish state with Jewish values harasses and discriminates against its own Jewish citizens, razing their homes and blockading their communities?
ReplyDeleteThis is offensive, as is everything else that Ben Sales writes about J Street. Apparently, he'd prefer to scatter this kind of rubbish across the landscape rather than attempt to justify the current Israeli government's anti-Jewish domestic and foreign policies.
Yesterday he posted an outright lie on another blog, alleging that a standing ovation was in response to a questionable statement by an Egyptian journalist when it actually followed that journalist's statement by many minutes.
The statement? That the Egyptians really weren't giving much thought to Israel when they rebelled against Mubarek.