http://vidyid.com/rabbi-vaya-and-a-middle-position-on-worms-in-fish-video.html
Corn on the cob is infested. Strawberries are infested.How can one eat them?
Corn- kernels should be cut off from the cob & rinsed.
Strawberries- Cut off green, being carefull not to cut too much fruit & make a hole. Peel the entire outside. After freezing it's easier to peel.
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is he gonna talk about fish? I heard he spoke to reb moshe about it.......
The VHQ as usual allows corn and strawberries. Just like Rabbi Schachter the son-in-law of you know who allows them.
They mistama also use conservative mashgichim to wash veggies.
As thrips have increased in general because of a pesticide being banned, I find it hard to believe that only berries and corn have them. How many more announcements will we be hearing?
As per this article, some of these rare eColi strains can be present in strawberries.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/business/27bugs.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
For nearly two decades, Public Enemy No. 1 for the food industry and its government regulators has been a virulent strain of E. coli bacteria that has killed hundreds of people, sickened thousands and prompted the recall of millions of pounds of hamburger, spinach and other foods.
But as everyone focused on controlling that particular bacterium, known as E. coli O157:H7, the six rarer strains of toxic E. coli were largely ignored.
Collectively, those other strains are now emerging as a serious threat to food safety. In April, romaine lettuce tainted with one of them sickened at least 26 people in five states, including three teenagers who suffered kidney failure.
Although the federal government and the beef and produce industries have known about the risk posed by these other dangerous bacteria for years, regulators have taken few concrete steps to directly address it or even measure the scope of the problem.
For three years, the United States Department of Agriculture has been considering whether to make it illegal to sell ground beef tainted with the six lesser-known E. coli strains, which would give them the same outlaw status as their more famous cousin. The meat industry has resisted the idea, arguing that it takes other steps to keep E. coli out of the beef supply and that no outbreak involving the rarer strains has been definitively tied to beef.
The severity of the April outbreak is spurring a reassessment.
“This is something that we really have to look at,” said Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, who plans to introduce a bill that would pre-empt the Agriculture Department by declaring a broad range of disease-causing E. coli to be illegal in ground beef and requiring the meat industry to begin testing for the microbes. “How many people do we have to see die or become seriously ill because of food poisoning?”
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed at least 10 food-borne outbreaks from 1990 to 2008 involving the six strains, carried in foods like salad or strawberries.
4:23 pm is the Vaad idiot who tries to discredit critics by writing childish comments in their name.
A question that does need to be raised however is who do they think they are fooling (except for am haaratzim who are nichshol thanks to them) with the latest Queens Vaad vegetable policy?
Cut up vegetables in supermarkets are labeled under VHQ supervision except for things like broccoli that are labeled "need to be checked".
How exactly is someone supposed to check every floret in broccoli without commercial capabilities like power washers and all the steps taken by Bodek (if you can even trust that)?
R' Yudel -
What about canned corn?
Rav Vaya quoted tonight from Rav Meizels that asked Rav Moshe and was matir.
Rav Eidiman, Rav Moshe's talmid, told me that he was sitting next to Rav Moshe and they were eating fish and Rav Moshe pulled out a worm from the fish and showed it to Rabbi Eidelman, put it aside and kept eating the fish.
Fri May 28, 07:22:00 PM 2010
Reb Yudel! why do you allow these kinderlach to use my blog name to report false info about me?
Please stop him. NOW!
All you ignorant guys, from the VHQ or from Spotlight on Gaavah.
Go to the star-k web site and you'll see how easy it is to check fruits and vegetables.
If you rely on Star K shitos for checking for bugs, we are really in trouble.
Any solid hashgocho does not allow any Star K vegetables that are "checked".
There are however a few hashgocho that are well meaning but are duped into using Star K because it never dawned on them that Rav Heinemann would allow standards so weak that there is still considerable infestation or potential for infestation.
Yes Sunday 9:02 am, keep up the good work.
We at the Queens Vaad have no real defense of our unacceptable approval of apikorsim farkoyfing food with no reliable mashgiach in sight so we must create smokescreens to protect ourselves.
Please continue impersonating Queens Vaad critics and littering the blog with naarishe comments.
In the meantime we will also continue our other shvache line of defense in bashmutzing R' Yudel to rabbonim who question us when we get exposed to them as allowing food from freye rabbis and allowing mechalel Shabbos caterers to continue with no mashgiach.
Speaking of Bodek, how does Rabbi Gissinger come to be involved in the sheimos scandal?
http://www.app.com/article/20100526/NEWS/5260371/DEP-eases-up-on-Lakewood-rabbi-s-illegally-buried-artifacts
LAKEWOOD — In April, the state Department of Environmental Protection sent a sternly worded letter to a local rabbi, ordering him to remove thousands of bags of sacred material buried under a sandy lot off Vermont Avenue.
Grace Fitzgerald, 82, has paid taxes on the property since the mid-1980s, paying $403.83 in 2009, according to her tax bill. Unknown to her, the lot was nonetheless sold three times since June 2008, with Yosaif and Zeldy Oppen of Lakewood involved as either the buyers or sellers. On March 1, the Oppens donated the land to the rabbi, Chaim Abadi, who then used it to bury holy items during Passover that, by religious law, could not be burned or discarded as common garbage.
Repeated calls to Abadi for comment were not returned, though, according to DEP officials, he delayed a cleanup after another rabbi, Shlomo Gissinger, advised him to leave the materials in place. Attempts to reach Gissinger for comment were also unsuccessful.
Oppen maintains he was the property's rightful owner before donating it to Abadi.
"If anyone insinuates any fraud, then that has to be backed up," he said.
The Rabbanut is being mefarsem on the OU that the Coral brand of tuna from Indonesia was sneakily exported with the OU hoping no one would figure out it is bishul akum.
They have banned the import of this tuna to Israel.
And the question has been raised previously, how does the OU claim to get mashgichim into Indonesia, the most anti-Semitic country in the world where savages are waiting to stab to death any Jew that they see, including as reported by the NY Times the presence of spear wielding barbarians who hang around the airport waiting for any Jews who "might try to sneak in".
Here is a true story that I witnessed this Shabbos.
There is a new group called "Ahavas Yisroel". Women get together to say Tehillim and discuss inyana deyuma. Most of these women are from one of two shuls, either a modern Vaad shul or a heimishe non-Vaad shul.
When I came to pick up my wife, they had finished Tehillim and each woman was given an opportunity to speak what was on her mind. A woman from the Vaad shul with hair completely uncovered and otherwise not dressed according to any standard of tznius, shot off her mouth that the odd time when she visits the non-Vaad shul, she will put on a hat and cover other parts of her body because otherwise she will be out of place.
But then the machshayfa continued that she and her friends take offense when women come to her shul dressed tzniusdik because they are not cooperating with the minhag at the Vaad shul. One exact example she gave was, gasp, if a woman dares to cover her legs.
What do they call this group again? Sinas Yisroel?
A rosh yeshiva from outside Queens shotzes up to me that it is because of people like this that Vaad of Queens rabbonim are terrified to push for better kashrus because they will get a backlash from these kinds of people.
Rav Wiessmandel testifying last week for the Rubashkin defense was a joke. All he could do was attack the Conservative Jews which looks pathetic when so many avlos were done under him and the OU, who are supposed to be setting the example of kashrus veyashrus.
I takke heard that the Queens Vaad is badmouthing Rav Shain as their only line of defense that he comes to Queens to provide bad kashrus of his own as long as he gets paid.
But considering the source of this motzee shem ra, it is high praise as it is coming from the same VHQ that smeared Rav Moishe Handler for reporting on the cemetery issues to Rav Elyashev.
I also happen to know that there are instances where the VHQ certification boils to down to replacement mashgichim at times when it is hard to get anyone else like a guy who has his shirt buttons open half way to show off his chest with no tzitzis and a Conservative woman who wears pants.
Maybe VHQ doesn't even know this is taking place but then it is still a total lack of control on their part.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114385861937619&ref=mf
Today was an annual event sponsored by the National Council of Young Israel as well as a bunch of Queens Vaad shuls.
The Run for Israel in Cunningham Park attracts all kinds of women who show up dressed as ervah d"Oreisseh.
Thanks to these NCYI & VHQ do-gooders, you can't even pass by the park today altz darka achrita.
Young Israel say they moved to the right and assered mixed dancing at their events years ago. Is having women show up wearing almost nothing any better?
And what does the VHQ Executive Director say about his member shuls sponsoring an event that is poretz geder in every area of tznius?
the woman at the so called ahavas yisroel group in queens that attacked nashim tzanuos is a very sick person but there are nebich others like her
my wife was there and she will not be attending again because of her and another modern orthodox prutza meshugenna who is mad at her father, a talmid of r' moishe feinstein, for learning "too much"
the first woman will not say anything to or look in the eye of any woman wearing a shaytel or man with a black velvet yarmulka - even close neighbors - such is her sinah for bnei torah. one rov who was briefed on the shabbos incident called her a koif
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w3ipkL1Dd10/TALtyONbyxI/AAAAAAAABYM/UlHeGgBQ1FQ/s1600/16mu8xca.jpg
According to R' Doniel Eidensohn, the target of this kol korei is R' Chaim Amsalem of Shas who was previously the rov of the Sfardishe kehillah in Geneva.
http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/94939094.html
So much for Hershey Friedman running an honest operation at the new Agri.
He asked the judge to let one of his convicted criminal managers (a goy) off the hook because he needs him.
Why does rinsing alone help with corn? Aren't the thrips digging in with their harpoon-like mandibles like they do with the strawberries?
These last few comments sound like young schnooks who have no hint of what America looked like just 50 years ago.
Kashrus and tznius have come a long way from those times.
Did it do a full circle? The answer is no. But things like this take time and sometimes more then one generation.
Your grandparents, if they lived in America, were "probably" no better.
And even if they were, they were not at today's 'more frum' standards.
So stop critiquing the older generations and their offspring and start being thankful for the strides that been taken since those days so that you can be proud of yourself.
Your offspring will no doubt be even more to the 'right' then you and hopefully they will not badmouth you and your generation.
And it was more than 50 years ago that Rav Herman ztl was moyche against issurei Torah in pritzus and Rav Mendlowitz ztl was moyche against phony rabbonim who provide unacceptable kashrus standards.
It is Mr. "say it like it is" who doesn't realize how much some of these modern people hate us with a passion.
By one hachnosas sefer Torah in Queens, a moderne woman came out into the street screaming and yelling that they are making too much noise.
http://www.chabad.info/index.php?url=article_en&id=19092
Tnuva, Israel’s largest dairy cooperative, which produces a sizable mehadrin line, insists the allegations are baseless but Yad L’Achim’s Rabbi Sholom Dov Lifshitz insists his organization’s information has been confirmed.
This story begins in Kibbutz Herdoff in the Lower Galil, a community located in the Jezreel Valley Region. The community, which was founded about 30 years ago boasts a profitable organic industry, but Yad L’Achim explains things are not as innocent as they appear, reporting the community follows Anthroposophy, a spiritual philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, which R’ Lifshitz explains is avoda zara (idol worship) by every Torah definition of the word. So what’s the connection to the largest dairy, mehadrin consumers and Israel’s dairy industry?
According to the weekly Sha’ah Tovah Magazine, Tnuva operates a production line in the community, producing its ‘gevina shel pa’am’ (old fashion cheese) line which bears a Tnuva mehadrin kashrut.
Rabbi Lifshitz explains that consumers buying the products, including frum mehadrin-seeking shoppers, are directly funding avoda zara and in this case, community efforts to increase their numbers, outreach programs targeting Jewish children. He explains the community has an educational system inculcating children with its philosophy, and is quite active in promoting its agenda.
The report further adds that the word “kosher” does not appear on these products for a simple reason, such a claim would by state law compel a kashrut supervision by the local rabbinate as well. This would demand listing the place of origin and other facts that Tnuva does not wish to advertise. Therefore, the products only bear a ‘vaad mehadrin Tnuva’ claim, omitting the word “kosher”. Yad L’Achim insists this is to circumvent the need to tell consumers the mehadrin products originate in the idol worshipping kibbutz.
There is a code used for these products, which appears in the form of English letters, making it even less intelligible to many shoppers to whom English is foreign, or even the English speakers, who remain clueless as to the code.
Tnuva rejects Yad L’Achim’s allegations, insisting that the production line is not rented from the community, but owned outright by Tnuva and therefore, there is no connection to the community and its lifestyle. Furthermore, anything pertaining to kashrut is in line with the regulations of the Vaad Mehadrin and Rav Whitman, Tnuva’s rav, the firm’s officials explain.
The company does not deny that the place of manufacture of the product line does not appear on the finished product, but for an entirely different reason. They explain Kibbutz Herdoff is known for its organic products and putting the community’s name on non-organic products would have an adverse impact on its image. Products exhibit the “Vaad Mehadrin Tnuva” which is an appointed body by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, thereby satisfying the law and the word “kosher” is superfluous since it says “Vaad Mehadrin” which must obviously be kosher too.
Rav Lifshitz is adamant, insisting Yad L’Achim gathered the facts and it can prove the case. He further adds that Yad L’Achim approached the Eida Chareidit, which was approached by the kibbutz to give a hechsher on its organic products. Lifshitz admits that halachically they are okay by-and-large, however, after explaining the situation the Eida complied with the Yad L’Achim request and rejected the kibbutz as a potential client, realizing by doing so, the religious community would be supporting a community that supports and promotes idol worship.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/mehadrin-kashrut-inspectors-shunning-turkish-plants-1.299300
Mehadrin kashrut inspectors shunning Turkish plants
Israel's major kashrut agencies have stopped sending inspectors to Turkey, reportedly fearing for their safety.
For the time being, shipments of goods with standard (non-mehadrin ) kashrut certification are still going out. Regular certification is based on one visit by an inspector, who can then confirm that the plant is kosher. The plant doesn't need constant supervision over the entire production process. But food designated for Haredi communities does require the constant presence of an inspector.
The Haredi Badatz, the biggest kashrut supervising organization in Israel, said it would resume sending supervisors to Turkey only when the Foreign Ministry confirms Israeli tourists there are no longer in danger. "Before the latest trouble, we had four or five inspectors in Turkey every week," said a Badatz official.
The main product that isn't getting the kashrut certification it used to get is pasta, the official said. He added that no shortage has developed yet, but said that could happen shortly.
Tensions between Israel and Turkey have increased significantly since the Israel Navy's May 31 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed nine pro-Palestinian Turkish citizens aboard the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara.
Moshe Weinstein, deputy CEO of the kashrut certification firm OK, says his company is also "trying hard" not to send inspectors to Turkey now.
"The inspectors themselves are afraid to go," he said. Weinstein said OK will send someone if absolutely necessary, but in that case, the inspectors are provided with direct transportation between the hotel and the plant.
Yehuda Katz, head of the Rabbi Landa kashrut organization, says its inspectors aren't entering Turkey either.
"We say that the sanctity of life supersedes tomatoes," he said. "We have a lot of manufacturers in Turkey, but nothing is irreplaceable."
Rafi Sheffer, the CEO of Brand for You, the private label of a group of small grocery chains, said those stores typically sell products with regular kosher certification and have no problem continuing to import from Turkey.
"Once an inspector has been in Turkey and confirmed that the plant is kosher, he doesn't have to go again," said Sheffer. "The situation is different for the Badatz kashrut." That doesn't mean the crisis in relations with Turkey isn't affecting Brand for You, though. The chains had planned to add Badatz certification to many of their products, said Sheffer, and now they will have difficulty doing so.
Get real. I'll be in Indonesia next week. The Chinese Indonesians love Jews, and the Muslim one's think I'm an Imam. Nobody is bothered by me, and I walk around in my Yarmulka.
I'm not a Mashgiach, but for a small fee I'll check some products out :-)
PS. Can we stop talking about "strawberries" as if the same Machla is all over the world. The situation is different from country to country. Hello!
Isaac, there is a theory that thrips came to America from Australasia. So what are you talking about?
Indonesia is a huge archipelago. The Western islands are definitely full of rabid anti-Semites, especially the one where Jakarta the capital is located.
Anonymous: I guess the thrips must become more virulent once they leave Australia. We have problems here too but the way this blog reads it's one size fits all. It doesn't. Some people think America is the centre of the world and it's a Binyan Av for every where else. It isn't.
I'll be in Jakarta. Of course there are anti-semites, but the comment was that it's impossible to do a Hashgocho there. That's simply false.
SHAIN I THINK YOUR HEAD IS INFESTED WITH BUGS
WHERE DO YOU GET ALL YOUR NARISHKITEN FROM
HASHEM GAVE US FRUITS TO EAT
LO NITNA TORAH LMALACHAI HASHOROS
I SEE THE BUGS LIKE YOU THEY ARE ALWAYS RUNNING AFTER YOU
MAYBE ITS YOUR COLOGNE
THATS ATTRACTING THEM
The guy who tcheppers R' Yudel about bugs all the time sounds like a sheketz himself.
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