Y. emails: Luke,
If you don’t expect us to believe the RCC’s narrative, whose should we believe? Rabbi Kligfield’s of Temple Beth Am who was quoted in this morning’s LA Times as implying that this is all about “power plays” by rabbinic bodies? Kligfield is encouraging his congregants to keep buying at Doheny “Kosher”. But he never mentioned that one of the store’s key employees is the son-in-law of Beth Am’s Rabbi Emeritus.
You see, everyone has an agenda. Make money, standardize kashrut standards, protect friends and family, you name it.
Until I hear a more believable story, this is all about trust. I cannot trust a vendor who violates standards that he represents himself to be upholding. And although they can be heavy-handed, I trust the RCC.
