Tel Aviv, Israel – Parents Angry Over Lack of Kashrus on Poland Trip

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    Photo illustration of Kosher food being soldTel Aviv, Israel – Parents of students at one Ra’anana high school are furious that the youngsters were unable to obtain kosher food during their recent week-long visit to Poland.

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    The parents said it was “outrageous” that kosher food could not be supplied during a trip costing more than NIS 7,000 per student, and were angered that students who complained about being served non-kosher meat during the trip were told to eat the accompanying vegetables.

    127 11th-grade students from Ra’anana’s Aviv high school – a secular state school – went on the annual students’ visit to Poland. After their return, some parents complained that they had not been informed in advance that the food served during the trip would not be kosher, and they had assumed it would be.

    “It is not possible that they take such a large sum, more than NIS 7,000 per student, and they cannot supply kosher food. It is simply outrageous,” one mother said.

    A municipal spokesman said that out of the 127 students, five had requested kosher food in advance, and this had been prepared in Israel and supplied to them for the entire trip. The spokesman said no complaints had reached the school by other parents about a lack of kosher food.


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    Dave
    Dave
    15 years ago

    Clearly they could provide Kosher food, because they did. Why didn’t the parents check in advance?

    MAYER
    MAYER
    15 years ago

    They care about complaining not about kosher food

    kozy845
    kozy845
    15 years ago

    You are speaking of people who are Traditional style Jews, not Chareidi. They assume that food served all over Israel is kosher and dont think too deeply into the matter. In Israel they eat whatever is placed in front of them. They probably assumed that this same food would be supplied to their children, not local Polish food which obviously wouldnt be kosher. These are not the type of people that check hechsheirim and debate the kashrus of Aida Hachreidis compared to Rabanut.

    Murray
    Murray
    15 years ago

    If something ( kasrus, or whatever) is important to you – you plan ahead, and don’t leave anything up to chance. “IF YOU FAIL TO PLAN, YOU PLAN TO FAIL”

    NY
    NY
    15 years ago

    Mi Kamocha? Even our chiloni are concerned about kashrus.

    We should stop making Poland rich and rewarding them for what their genocide against us. I won’t send my kids on the March of the Living even if the food is Bedatz.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Mayer (2:25 p.m.) is absolutely right. When they are served squirrel soup in their school, they assume it’s kosher because its served under the auspices of a “jewish” state. They, nebach, eat treifene food all year round in their homes and schools.

    B.S.
    B.S.
    15 years ago

    Lets keep in mind that the Polish didnt aim a “genocide against us”. It was the Nazi’s that invaded Poland and used the country as an extermination center. Over the ages Jews have suffered terribly in Poland through pogroms and blood libels etc. but it was not genocide. For any Jew to not visit a Nazi concentration camp is a sin. No one can understand the scope of what happened unless they see it. Someone who is afraid of making the “Polish rich” should first stop buying German made products and spend the money to go see what “Holocaust” really means first hand.

    B.S.
    B.S.
    15 years ago

    No where in the article does it mention “March of The Living”. Having been on a March of The Living trip I know first hand that they ONLY offer kosher food and there is a mashgiach on the trip as well. The trip mentioned above was a trip sponsored by the local high school in Israel.

    This is how lashon horah is started, in Elul no less.

    Milhouse
    Milhouse
    15 years ago

    B.S., the Poles collaborated willingly with the Germans. However much they hated the Germans, they were glad to help them get rid of the Jews. Even the partisans were antisemites, and would kill any Jew who escaped to them; that’s why the Jews formed their own partisan groups, and spent half their time hiding from the Polish partisans. Hashem punished Poland with fifty years of slavery to the Russians, but they have not yet regretted their sins.

    ezra
    ezra
    15 years ago

    Jews should not visit Poland.They killed Jews before,during and after the war.