Thursday, September 07, 2006
Rush on to 'rekosher' after chicken scare
Hundreds of people brought plates and silverware to a temple Wednesday because they are concerned non-kosher food tainted them.
It happened in Spring Valley, Rockland County, where many bought what they thought was kosher chicken. But the birds were not Kosher. They had bought chicken with the wrong label on it. Now they're trying to figure out how it happened.
Eyewitness News reporter Marcus Solis has more on the story.
It is one of the most deeply held principles in Judaism, that kosher food must be handled and prepared in a very specific way. Spring Valley residents say they were devastated to learn some of the food people handled and ate was non-kosher.
Hundreds of Orthodox and Hasidic jews turned out Wednesday to have their pots, pans and silverware dipped in boiling water. It's a process called "koshering," which makes the materials rekosher, and is usually done on a smaller scale during Passover. But in Spring Valley, this is an emergency.
"The house has to be kosher," one resident said. "If the pots aren't kosher we can't cook or eat anything."
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4535720
Hundreds of people brought plates and silverware to a temple Wednesday because they are concerned non-kosher food tainted them.
It happened in Spring Valley, Rockland County, where many bought what they thought was kosher chicken. But the birds were not Kosher. They had bought chicken with the wrong label on it. Now they're trying to figure out how it happened.
Eyewitness News reporter Marcus Solis has more on the story.
It is one of the most deeply held principles in Judaism, that kosher food must be handled and prepared in a very specific way. Spring Valley residents say they were devastated to learn some of the food people handled and ate was non-kosher.
Hundreds of Orthodox and Hasidic jews turned out Wednesday to have their pots, pans and silverware dipped in boiling water. It's a process called "koshering," which makes the materials rekosher, and is usually done on a smaller scale during Passover. But in Spring Valley, this is an emergency.
"The house has to be kosher," one resident said. "If the pots aren't kosher we can't cook or eat anything."
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4535720
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