RE: Lassana Bathily, Muslim Employee, Saved Several People During Paris Hostage Situation
January 11, 2015 at 11:37 am
(January 11, 2015 at 10:04 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(January 10, 2015 at 11:37 pm)Drich Wrote: This is suspicious.
Why? Because it was a kosher store.
In order for the food to remain kosher it could not be handled/prepared (depending on how jewish the person was) by a gentile. Muslims are Gentiles.
Not saying she could work at the store as there would be many 'unclean tasks' (janitorial) that the kosher jews could not do. However her tasks would probably mean she would work when no one else was there, as to not taint the kosher food.
Actually, handling by non-Jews doesn't make the food treyf, except in some ultra-orthodox communities. What counts a kosher is food that is 1) not taboo and 2) prepared by Jews.
The woman in question could easily work alongside Jews in numerous capacities, as long as she didn't prepare the food.
Boru
Some grocery stores in the US carry kosher food and those items must have been touched by nonJewish people because they aren't religious stores.
For meat to be Kosher, it has to be killed a certain way. I don't know if it has to specifically be Jewish people who kill the animal or not. Some foods also have a kosher symbol on them that couldn't have been prepared just by Jewish people. Coke Cola is Kosher but some Jewish people can't drink it during Passover because of the corn syrup
http://www.aish.com/atr/Is_Coca_Cola_Kosher.html
Maybe the rules vary by food item?
