Bronx, NY – The owner of a high end, glatt kosher restaurant claimed in a lawsuit that local rabbis are forcing him out of the kosher community because his wife isn’t Jewish.
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Dimitry Berezovskiy, owner of the Riverdale K Grill House, in a lawsuit filed in Bronx Supreme Court, alleges that his landlord Moses Marx and the rabbinical council of Riverdale spread rumors that he lost his kashrut certification in order to drive him out of business, the New York Post reported.
Local rabbinical council member Rabbi Asher Bush told the Post that the allegations “a fabrication.”
Berezovskiy opened the restaurant in 2015, determined to bring quality kosher dining to Riverdale, the Riverdale Press reported in November, in an article reporting that he was trying to sell the restaurant due to struggles to run a restaurant under the handicap of being certified glatt kosher.
He told the Riverdale Press in November that the restrictions imposed by the local rabbinical council limiting what he can and cannot sell without losing his kosher certificate was making it difficult to compete with other neighborhood restaurants.
Why is he surprised? If he has a shiksa wife (& maybe goyishe children) how on earth can his Kashrus be trusted? I can’t believe he doesn’t get it.
“…due to struggles to run a restaurant under the handicap of being certified glatt kosher.”
So he is finding it difficult to make it as a glatt kosher restaurant (as he can only sell glatt meat & folllow hilchos kashrus) so he blames someone else.
Jewish wife/children or not; does he have a reliable hechser or not? The kashrus organization will base it on whether the food is reliably kosher.
My late father was in Kashrus & he told me when I got married and moved away… wherever you buy, the owner should be a yiras shamayim. Kosher restaurants owned by non-Jews (remember Shang Chai?) are a lot more careful of their Kashrus certification than a place owned by someone who has no regard for Halacha.
Of course, if you choose to eat there, that’s your business. But would you expect a place open on Shabbos to have a reputable hechscher? Even if the owner is Jewish?
Enjoy your dinner.
Please re read the article!
The owner was not complaining that because his wife isn’t Jewish, he is suffering financially!!!
That was not his point at all!!
The owner was complaining that in order for him to maintain his kosher certification, he is being denied the ability to sell many items that ARE being sold at near by restaurants!
Did it ever occur to ANYONE, THAT THESE OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS ARE NOT STRICTLY KOSHER AND ARE THEREFORE NIT SELLING KOSHER ITEMS??????
FIRST FIND OUT WHAT HE ISN’T BEING ALLOWED TO SELL!!!!!