Pork and Jewish identity

Now that Tisha B’ Av is over, we can finally get back to food. And there has been all this talk about the controversy of pork products in Israel, and the attempt to ban them.

Y-Love supports a ban of pork products in Netanya, but his reasoning is off (remember, Y-Love is haredi). For instance, one of the reasons Y-Love attaches to the pork issue is that many of the Russian immigrants aren’t Jewish, and “One non-Jewish Russian IDF soldier was even found to be a Neo-Nazi, and Israeli neo-Nazi activity is on the rise.�

Well, it’s hard to go lower than one, now, isn’t it Y-Love? What if we find out that they (the Russians) drink borsht? Should we ban that too, if say, we find two Israeli-Russian neo-Nazi soldiers?

Also, Y-Love notes that, “Eight non-religious council members voted for this bill. Why is this? They obviously didn’t see it as “religious coercion.”

Maybe they were afraid to vote against the ban. After all, if 13 out of 25 members are religious, that’s a lot of frum voters! Not that they would EVER hold an anti-pork ban vote against them or anything like that.

“But you have to draw the line somewhere. Somewhere there has to be someone saying, “if we have a star of David on our flag, and Hebrew as our language, we’ve got to have some Judaism over here.”

And if the line can’t be drawn at pornography, can it at least be drawn at pork?â€?

Well, what’s wrong with where the lines were drawn? Anyway, I don’t really care, if I go to Israel, I can make it a couple of weeks without porn if I have to.

But as to the pork issue, isn’t there a middle ground between those who love pigs, and those who demand Jews should not consume pork?

Well, I went to the well, and found an old movie on Youtube that I think just might find the middle ground. Pro-pig, but also accommodating of Judaism’s restriction against eating pig. Because you can be a chazer at the shabbos table, you just can’t eat a chazer at the shabbos table.

Let’s take a look…