Germany – Two Jewish men are on trial in Germany, accused of passing off non-kosher meat as kosher to members of the Frankfurt Jewish community over a period of two years, according to local media.
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In all, 40,000 kg. of non-kosher meat was sold to unsuspecting customers for a period of years, according to the Juedische Allgemeine.
The two defendants, identified as Leslie W., 48, and Akiva H., 56, by the Bild newspaper, sold the meat out of the Aviv butchers in Frankfurt, which served communities throughout Germany.
In testimony last week, Akiva H. admitted that he began selling the faux kosher meat in 2008 when “threatened with insolvency,” apologizing to “all those whose religious feelings were hurt,” Bild reported.
Leslie W. explained that he went along with the fraud after discovering it in 2010 due to fearing the damage that such a revelation could do to his business. The fraud continued through 2012.
The butcher shop supplied kosher meat to a Jewish school, a nursing home and numerous private residences both within Frankfurt and other locales.
The pair involved in the fraud were know as “nice and gentle” men who were “well known in the Jewish community,” Joshua, a Jew from Frankfurt now living in Israel, told The Jerusalem Post. “I knew both of them from synagogue and many of my Frankfurt friends including myself shopped there.”
Beyond the shock of finding out that they had inadvertently been eating meat that had not undergone ritual slaughter, many members of the community were subsequently also required, according to Jewish law, to kosher their kitchens, a laborious process used to cleanse utensils and appliances as a result of contact with non-kosher food.
“I am shocked that this happened,” Joshua said, summing up what he said were the feelings of his co-religionists in Germany.
Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post
Not another meat story
And he was supposedly frum…
Coming on the heels of “Mikvagate”, this revelation is especially troubling. Who can be trusted?
Where was the mashgiach?
If you you choose to live in a treifa country; you eat treif too.
Oy gevalt such corruption when it comes to money,as the saying goes,the love of money is the root of all evil.
Where was the hashgacha or mashgiach
The article should make clear that the meat markets found to have engaged in the despicable practice of selling treifus to unsuspecting yidden did not occur under a chassideshe hashgacha. If you want to be 110 certain of kashruth, only purchase fleish from the gold standard of hashgachos, a schlachthois or butcher with known chassideshe mashgichim. The chances of going wrong are very very small.
Maybe Fruendel was the mashgiach and had the camera in the wrong business.
Painful i would say it’s cuz of the internet