Group Of Rabbis Spark Controversy Over Lox

Be they Jew or Gentile, New Yorkers love their lox. However, a group of rabbis called Chevra Mehadrin recently claimed salmon, flounder, halibut and cod fish should no longer be considered kosher, because they may contain a tiny parasite known as anisakis that some rabbis claim has mutated to a form no longer permitted by Jewish law.

"Lox is lox. Everybody eats it. Where would Monsey be without lox?" said Dolores Solomon-Edinger.

That's the question at Monsey's Bagel d'Lox. "Bagels and lox, that's what they eat. It's a big part of the store and the make-up of the store," said Tuly Buchinger.

Buchinger sells hundreds of pounds of lox and other kosher fish each week, so imagine his interest when the small group of ultra-orthodox rabbis declared salmon and other fish unclean. "To me, it sounds very suspicious," he said.

No one answered the door at the Chevra Mehadrin's office in Monsey and no one returned calls for comment, but the largest kosher-certifying organization in the country said there's no need to put a pox on lox.

The Orthodox Union said scholars debated and settled the point generations ago, so the fish is fine.

Despite the claims of the ultra-orthodox rabbis, "the O.U. has found no evidence of anything different from what has already been permitted by (Jewish law)."

Lox lovers were mostly dismissing the kosher controversy. "Some people they like to go on and find problems with everything," said Boruch Gross of Monsey.

"Still going to eat salmon, you know? I like salmon. Salmon is good," said Mendy Nemtzov of Airmont.

Many kosher restaurant owners said until their supervising rabbi tells them otherwise. They'll keep serving lox and lots of it.

"A world without lox is hard to imagine," Edinger said.

And about that parasite, the FDS said it requires all commercially sold fish to be frozen for a time, to kill any parasites

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[David0Karesh]

@Emet1949

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What a lap dog .

[Emet1949]

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[David0Karesh]

@Emet1949

Same to you and your devils religion parasite .

[Emet1949]

@David0Karesh : Drop dead and go to hell snake head.

[David0Karesh]

They should consider themselves not kosher as jews are also parasites

[onefodderunit]

@extazy17

Have you ever watched kosher slaughter? Why is it necessary for cows to be turned upside down? To generate a lot of terror in them? And why slash their necks wide open while they're conscious and already terrified, then dump them on the floor where they thrash around, trying to stand up with their hoofs slipping in their blood, as they breath through the gaping wound in their neck, sometimes for a few minutes, until they drown on blood, or bleed to death?

/watch?v=OzaeHfh65hs

[cdoftx]

never heard of lox before

[extazy17]

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[xanderkhaan]

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Anna Baltzer- Baltzer’s grandparents survived the Holocaust.[2]

Norman Finkelstein,,

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I am getting hungry now..