KOSHER OR NOT KOSHER, THAT IS THE QUESTION

Kosher vs. Hypocrisy

This is the sort of thing I love.

Say one thing, do another.

Every society suffers from this.

Ringing principles, clanging practices.

The problem is that ringing principles are costly, not just in bucks, but in downside risks.

For every ringing principle is an equal and nearly opposite, "But what if...?"  Here you insert whatever you're afraid of most. The fears fall under the labels of the antidotes:  National security, emergency powers, executive privilege, military secret, and so on; you name it.

And then comes along a voice.  A solitary voice, crying in the wilderness.  The rabbi.  Not the one out for a buck, but one wrapped in principles like his tallis.  A guy who gets it right.

Below is an example.  Of a meat-packing plant in the U.S., billed as kosher, but using children in violation, apparently, of the labor laws, hard fought a century ago by the likes of Louis Brandeis, a Supreme Court justice after whom a university in Boston is named, as laborers for seventeen hours a day.  And the plant calls itself kosher.  The rabbi say's it ain't. 

I agree with the rab, don't you?

The article is below.