Kosher Chaos – Western Voices World News

A riot erupted at a Brooklyn restaurant last week when Orthodox
Jewish patrons discovered the "kosher"** hot dogs on the menu were
chicken franks that didn’t answer to a higher authority.

What ensued was as unholy as the hot dogs. The eatery’s frightened
manager was punched in the face and fended off the angry mob with an
electric carving knife until cops finally broke up the frankfurter
fracas. 

 "They were yelling at the guy behind the counter," one witness told
The Post. "They started spitting and throwing things at him. They were
shaking the counter and trying to jump over to search the fridge."

Members of Shomrim, the local volunteer crime patrol, was at the scene before police.
 "There were at least 100 people there. We sent everybody out to the street," a member said. 
 The Torah tussle began when a longtime patron noticed the unusually
plump wiener he bought Monday night at Cheskel’s Shawarma King in
Borough Park didn’t fit into a challah roll as usual. 
 Suspicious, he asked for proof of where the hot dogs were bought.
The server brought him the package, which confirmed the Bar S brand
jumbo chicken frank was not certified kosher. 
 Shocked Hasidic patrons, joined by dozens of passers-by, encircled the counter of the 13th Avenue eatery, demanding answers. 
 At least one patron hit besieged manager Yosef Baron in the cheek. 
 Baron kept them at bay by waving the electric knife in their faces
an image captured on video now making the rounds on the Web. 
 No one was arrested. <a href=”http://www.nypost.com/seven/03222009/news/regionalnews/kosher_dog_fight_160790.htm”>Source</a>**Thinking in Pictures, and Other Reports Prom My Life With Autism:
"I will never forget having nightmares after visiting the now defunct (kosher)
Spencer Foods plant in Spencer, Iowa fifteen years ago. Employees
wearing football helmets attached a nose tong to the nose of a writhing
beast suspended by a chain wrapped around one back leg. Each terrified
animal was forced with an electric prod to run into a small stall which
had a slick floor on a forty-five degree angle. This caused the animal
to slip and fall so that workers could attach the chain to its rear leg
[in order to raise it into the air. As I watched this nightmare, I
thought, ‘This should not be happening in a civilized society.’ In my
diary I wrote, ‘If hell exists, I am in it.'<img src=”http://ae.imcode.com/en/images/halal_handling.jpg" style=”width: 289px; height: 384px;” /><img src=”http://www.marlerblog.com/slaughter.gif" />

2009-06-12