Rabbi Moshe Taub is rabbi of Young Israel of Holliswood and former director of BVK Kosher.
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Beneath that surface lies a deeper level: the shape of this language’s letters, its numerology, its roots and apparent synonyms. All this leads to a fractal-within-a-fractal of information contained in its perfect communications, in every word and letter.
We must recognize Israel's achievements under difficult circumstances, even as we strive in a positive way to help Israel continue to improve its relations with its Arab populations, but we must not permit criticisms for improvement to stigmatize Israel.
The Ksav Sofer also dismissed the square matzah concern by stating, In the merit of the four-cornered matzos, may Hashem redeem us from the four corners of the earth.
Indeed, it is Whoopi’s expressed love for our community that I hope will awaken her to the fact that she has been treading in very dangerous, and tired, waters with her latest fracas.
“Yes. You have to realize that Jackie’s father was one of the gedolim of the last generation, on the level of Rav Moshe himself!” Rav Singer stressed. While some may be tickled at such information, I could not help but feel a tinge of melancholy.
Any major company would then think twice before going kosher: “What if we keep all of their rules but break some unwritten Jewish value, and they pull certification?”


