{"id":86343,"date":"2016-01-25T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86343"},"modified":"2016-01-25T06:51:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:51:09","slug":"lat-in-ultra-orthodox-israeli-city-a-new-coffee-chain-fuels-price-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86343","title":{"rendered":"LAT: In ultra-Orthodox Israeli city, a new coffee chain fuels price war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/middleeast\/la-fg-israel-coffee-20160125-story.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe arrival of Cofix is a very good thing for the Orthodox,\u201d Asher said. \u201cThe Orthodox study religion and don\u2019t work, so the only thing that matters is the price&#8230;. Orthodox don\u2019t care about the taste, they care about how much they have to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yitzhak Avrahami, 17, is among those who are grateful for Cofix, even though he spends more of his money at Shloimale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of me wants to support Cofix,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause if they close the prices will rise again.\u201d<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not the art of drinking coffee that has pervaded Bnei Brak, but the desire for fast, cheap fuel between studying the Torah and praying. This isn\u2019t Paris; no one sits for hours over a cup.<\/p>\n<p>A collective of Bnei Brak\u2019s rabbis have lashed out at this, issuing a signed leaflet and poster calling for a blanket ban on eating and drinking on the run \u2014 adding a spiritual dimension to the coffee and pastry price war.<\/p>\n<p>According to the five signatories \u2014 Rabbis Yehuda Siliman, Moshe Shaul Klein, Sriel Rosenberg, Menachem Mendel HaCohen Shpern and Masoud Ben-Shimon \u2014 eating and drinking on the street is against the Torah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a duty to warn and alert the public to the phenomenon which has spread in our city: the cheap culture of eating while walking in the street,\u201d the signed notice reads.<br \/>\nThe notice condemns such consumption, and the placement of tables outside fast-food chains, equating it to \u201cswindling the public into common behavior\u201d and detracting from \u201cself-respect and the respect of families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Standing outside Shloimale, Rabbi Samuel Weiss said he agreed with the (widely ignored) rabbinic ban on the coffee spots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a Talmudic saying: He who eats food at market is like a dog,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times: \u201cThe arrival of Cofix is a very good thing for the Orthodox,\u201d Asher said. \u201cThe Orthodox study religion and don\u2019t work, so the only thing that matters is the price&#8230;. Orthodox don\u2019t care about the taste, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=86343\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86344,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86343\/revisions\/86344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}