{"id":48621,"date":"2013-03-30T19:48:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T03:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48621"},"modified":"2013-03-30T19:48:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T03:48:17","slug":"believe-the-rcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=48621","title":{"rendered":"Believe The RCC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Y. emails: Luke,<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t expect us to believe the RCC&#8217;s narrative, whose should we believe?  Rabbi Kligfield&#8217;s of Temple Beth Am who was quoted in this morning&#8217;s LA Times as implying that this is all about &#8220;power plays&#8221; by rabbinic bodies?  Kligfield is encouraging his congregants to keep buying at Doheny &#8220;Kosher&#8221;.  But he never mentioned that one of the store&#8217;s key employees is the son-in-law of Beth Am&#8217;s Rabbi Emeritus. <\/p>\n<p>You see, everyone has an agenda.  Make money, standardize kashrut standards, protect friends and family, you name it.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y. emails: Luke, If you don&#8217;t expect us to believe the RCC&#8217;s narrative, whose should we believe? 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