Wednesday, June 23, 2004

It's all cultural

The Chief Rabbi of the Tamar region, Yosef Blau, urges that more women should be employed as mashgichot, or Kashrut supervisors. He explains: "It's much harder to fool women about kashrut than to fool men, who generally don't know their way around a kitchen.... I'm sorry to say that it is the less talented yeshiva graduates who turn to kashrut supervision as a profession, rather than the more capable, who become rabbis or teachers."
I'm thrilled for the women. But what is Rabbi Blau implying about current Kashrut standards?

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