Jerusalem – Hamodia Israel Apologizes To Its Readers After Its Newspaper Posts Non-Kosher Recipe

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    Stir-fried meat noodles, with cheese [file photo]Jerusalem – Members of the ultra-Orthodox community opening the weekend edition of haredi daily Hamodia in search of a recipe for a good Shabbat meal last week were shocked to find a recipe for stir-fried chicken noodles with none other than dairy Feta cheese – a combination that is against the rules of kashrut and is strictly forbidden.

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    Recipe sections in family editions in the haredi sector are enjoying rising popularity, and just about every ultra-Orthodox publication includes such a section.

    Last week, however, an unpleasant mishap occurred with one of Hamodia’s Habayit Shelanu (“our home”) family edition’s recipes.

    The daily’s loyal readers discovered that one of the recipes for stir-fried chicken with noodles and vegetables came with a recommendation to serve the meaty dish with a large tablespoon of Feta cheese cubes in every plate.

    Furious readers flooded the paper with letters and phone calls in protest of the combination of meat and milk, which is absolutely forbidden in Judaism.

    “I am simply stunned. The spiritual committee that goes over every letter and line in the paper should have prevented this,” said M., a loyal reader.

    modia staff quickly published an apology from the Afikim Advertising company that is responsible for the recipes:

    “The serving suggestion appearing in this recipe belongs to another recipe and was accidentally printed twice. We apologize for the mishap.”


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Why the big tismos over an honest mistake. Most yidden would not care that much and those that are shomer kashruth would immediately recognize the error and either substitute a parve (soy-based) cheese or just leave the cheese out of the recipe. Not worth making a big deal about such minor mistakes.

    cook
    cook
    15 years ago

    Oh, what’s the beef? Obviously this was a mistake. Can’t these women figure it out without having to scream like lunatics? Anyone who reads Hamodia, which never publishes pictures of women, knows they would never deliberately print anything so obviously wrong.

    Give it up already & relax. Go back to cooking your chulent & kigel. Leave the fancy recipes for others if they make you so hysterical.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    The recipe is simply copied from a secular source.
    The biggest joke of all is that the ranninate actually reviews the paper.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    “Furious readers flooded the paper with letters and phone calls in protest of the combination of meat and milk, which is absolutely forbidden in Judaism.

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    “I am simply stunned. The spiritual committee that goes over every letter and line in the paper should have prevented this,” said M., a loyal reader.”
    Even the least sophisticated balabustas would immediately know this was a simple mistake and not mix milchichs and fleishigs in the same dish. That they have so much time on their hands to make calls and write letters over such a minor error is an indication of their misplaced priorities. I suspect most simply substitute a parve version of the Feta cheese and prepared a wonderful an delicious meal for their mishpacha without screaming “gevalt” or “treifus”.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    let the hamodia apologize for the j’lem mayoral election

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Since Hamodia is controlled by a certain well known Chassidic group, perhaps they have found a heter for that like they found a heter work against a frum cantidate for mayor of Jerusalem

    iib001
    iib001
    15 years ago

    Big deal they made a mistake which we all have done from time to time in our life.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Are they afraid that maybe some readers decided that there was a one time heter from the rabbonim for this special dish and will now expect the “treife special of the month” with a similiar heter and look for a new recipe each month mixing milchig and fleishig?

    David
    David
    15 years ago

    If you can vote during shiva you can have cheese with chicken

    Burech
    Burech
    15 years ago

    I can just imagine the atheist_ leftist writers of ynet’s faces jump with glee over this ‘scandal’. I’m surprised they didn’t top off the article with ‘Hundreds of “ultra-orthodox” are now rioting in the streets of jerusalem!’

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Some of you make fun of such an error but chas vachlilah that even one poor yiddeshe family might have eaten treifus because of their blind trust of anything that is presented in Hamodia is a terrible outcome and means we must all be mispalel on thier behalf and say a kapitol tehilim to hashem so they not suffer bad outcomes from such a terrible mistake by the editors.

    everyone
    everyone
    15 years ago

    Hamodia is a one sided paper, even though they say that they don’t involve in any politics that is an out right lie, t’s about time we do some thing about it and boy cot them!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    I think the worst part of this story is that it means someone is getting paid to copy and paste recipes without even reading them. If a person has a job to do, they should really put their full effort into the job and not try to get by with copy and paste. (Not to mention that copying and pasting recipes violates copyright laws!)

    moishe
    moishe
    15 years ago

    I’m sure they take a not kosher recipe that they figure you will never find and then take the credit for it. this time they got busted when they forgot to take out the cheese!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    This is what happens when Judaism turns into a fanatical religion. Readers do not have enough common sense or knowledge to know that it is an issur deorash to eat milk and meat. Instead, they rely on rabbonim and newspaper to substitute the torah.

    Askipeh Hanidreses
    Askipeh Hanidreses
    15 years ago

    My take on this, is that this highlights the arrogance of many writers who think that “they-know-it-all”, and Chas VeSholom won’t lower themselves to give it to someone to proof-read. The proof-reader shouldn’t only be expert at spelling and grammar, but also needs to be a knowledgeable person. Once upon a time writers were knowledgeable people, and professional at what they did, and you respected them even if you didn’t agree with them. Nowadays with the availability of computers, every Tom, Dick, and yes, also Harry has become a writer. The problem is that many editors of newspapers aren’t better; so proof-read by a “peer” isn’t much of a help.

    In this case, I don’t think anybody proof-read it, because an error in a recipe isn’t considered a big deal, so why waste someone’s time.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    The issue isn’t the article. The issue is in general if the editing board is allowing other things through which can be assumed as accurate

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Look, raboisai — we need to be dan l’kaf zchus. I think they were obviously referring to the new soy feta that is all the rage, or else fleishig feta made from the udder of a properly shechted sheep.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    its okay to have a non kosher recipe in a Jewish nespaper, but its not ok to show a picture of a female? How Ironic!!

    monsey
    monsey
    15 years ago

    I’m sure that no publication has any interest to upset its readers. The editors must have been horrified of what happened. What happened with asking nicely. Even my kids know this works best.

    Reb Yid
    Reb Yid
    15 years ago

    If anyone made this recipe based on “blind trust in Hamodia” as a previous post stated, the problem lies w/ people having blind trust in Hamodia, not with an accidental editorial snafu.

    BTW, when I saw the headline that Hamodia published a treif recipe, I assumed it was much worse than this. Like using heter mechira produce. Or food bought from a store open on shabbos. Or from a company that believes in dinosaurs.

    Balabosta
    Balabosta
    15 years ago

    Chicken and dairy is only ossur m’drabonon. It is Biblically permitted. While loshon horah is d’orayta – Biblically prohibited. I think some commentators should bear this in mind!

    Secondly, I often use such “treif” recipes by replacing the dairy or the meat/chicken with a non-dairy soy-based immitation. Some of my best fleishig dishes are made with non-dairt creamer. So, keep giving us these “treif” recipes!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Why didn’t they have the same people who make sure that there are no pictures of women in the newspaper make sure that there was no trief in the newspaper. I guess pictures of women are worse than trief.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    big hairy freakin’ deal… each person should be responsible for their own kashrus. would they eat somewhere just because the newspaper said it was ok to eat there without checking the kashrus standards first? People are becoming sheeple.