Lassana Bathily, Muslim Employee, Saved Several People During Paris Hostage Situation

[Kitty Galore]

As a secular nation I suggest that France would have non-discriminatory employment laws making it highly likely that muslims could be employed at jewish establishments.

You don't understand the word kosher do you? To have a gentile in contact with kosher food means it is no longer kosher, which defeats the purpose of the store!

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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

Seriously?

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So, for a long time my dad worked at a seafood plant. He told me that if they had a rabbi dude on the premises, supervising, they could technically sell the fish as kosher even if it was prepared by Christians/Muslims/Buddhists/Atheists.

Your dad was wrong.

Type of food, how it is prepared, how it is kept makes it kosher. The rabbi's are there to ensure proper handling. They do not make food kosher. Certain foods will always be unclean to the jews no matter what.

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