Voice of Reason

Once upon a time,The Village Voice was more than just a place to find Asian hookers. Every now and then, however, it still manages to print something that matters, like the most recent issue’s expose of the assorted semitic scumbags associated with Rubashkin’s. While the basics are old news, Elizabeth Dwoskin’s piece does a good job of exposing the lie, advocated by self-righteous hypocrites like Young Israel’s Pesach Lerner, that Agriprocessors did such wonderful work in providing kosher meat to Jews who wouldn’t otherwise have it. In fact, as Dwoskin points out, the company often acted like a Kosher Nostra, using their power in the industry to drive out kosher retailers who didn’t want to use their products.

Jewdar being Jewdar, we still would like to believe that company founder Aaron Rubashkin, above, really is a mensch, and its just his shiftless sons who are the no-goodniks. But we also have to say that we once bought a Rubashkin salami that was so bad we couldn’t even eat it (turned out was beef and chicken), and if a kosher meat company makes a sausage so bad even Jewdar won’t eat it, it really is criminal.

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About The Author

jewdar

The Tel Aviv-born, Milwaukee-bred Jewdar has a bachelors' from the University of Wisconsin, a Masters from NYU, and an Honorable Discharge from the US Army, where he spent two years as an infantryman in the 101st Airborne Division. He's the co-author of "The Big Book of Jewish Conspiracies", the Humor Editor of Heeb Magazine, and a watcher of TV. Smarter than most funny people, funnier than most smart people, he lives on the Lower East Side with his wife and two sons.

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