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       Multimillion-Dollar Kosher Certification Charges: Hoax or Truth?   
   Opinion; Posted on: 2004-05-08 12:38:02   
      
   An Unfair Burden on Gentile Consumers   
      
   by Mark Farrell   
      
   National Vanguard has been chastised for running articles on this subject   
   before, from those who believe that the entire issue is a hoax, and those   
   who merely feel it is an unimportant and perhaps exaggerated side issue. In   
   this case, Mr. Farrell has brought out some facts not discussed by others,   
   and has focused the spotlight on disinformation from the Jewish   
   Anti-Defamation League, in itself an important issue. -- Ed.   
      
   The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith has published an article   
   called "The Kosher Tax Hoax," in which the organization alleges that the   
   Kosher tax (the increase in food cost caused by payments to Jewish   
   'inspectors' for Kosher certification) paid by Gentiles on their food was,   
   in fact, fair and not a dishonorable attempt to fleece Gentile consumers of   
   their money. However, it is not fair, nor is it honorable.   
      
   The ADL and the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax: Fact and Fiction   
      
   For many Gentile consumers, it comes as a shock to realize that they pay a   
   Jewish tax on each and every pre-packaged food item with a "U" or "K" stamp   
   on the package, with some of these fees possibly going to support Zionists   
   in Israel. The Union of Orthodox Jews (symbolized by the "U" within a   
   circle) and the Circle-K (for Kashruth or, Kosher) are the two main   
   organizations within the United States that issue Kosher-certification and   
   its accompanying tax, though there are 273 other Kosher-certification   
   organizations that have other symbols within the U.S. alone.(1)   
      
   The ADL (Anti-Defamation League), an offshoot of the Jewish secret society   
   B'nai B'rith that got its start in 1913 after the Atlanta chapter head of   
   B'nai B'rith was arrested and convicted by a jury of murdering a 12-year-old   
   girl, Mary Phagan, in a cruel manner,(2) has long been attempting to counter   
   Gentile resentment towards this Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax. Typically, the   
   ADL says that such resentment towards the extra fees paid on food for the   
   rabbis' certification is the hallmark of 'anti-Semites' While it stands to   
   reason that in some isolated cases this may in fact be true, there is a   
   growing concern among many others over these extra fees that Gentile   
   consumers are forced to pay, particularly with the downward trend of the   
   economy.   
      
   In its article "The Kosher Tax Hoax," the ADL sought to allay many Gentiles'   
   fears and concerns over the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax. However, upon   
   reviewing the "facts" presented by B'nai B'rith's ADL, doubts quickly set   
   in.   
      
   From the beginning of the ADL's article, it suggests that it is false that   
   "only a small segment of the American population desires such markings, and   
   that even the meanings of the labels are guarded secrets deliberately kept   
   from non-Jews to trick them into paying the 'kosher tax.'"   
      
   If you are a typical non-Jewish reader, it is easy to see that both these   
   statements are true, not false as the ADL claims. Have you personally   
   desired such markings? And, if it is not a "secret" of sorts, why do they   
   not display a symbol that makes it clear that a fee is indeed paid to a   
   Jewish organization for Kosher certification?   
      
   Lubomyr Prytulak, a retired Canadian psychology professor, has long argued   
   that a Star of David (or, Magen David, as it is often called) should also   
   accompany the Kosher certification to make its meaning well known.(3) This   
   makes sense, and it would be more fair to Gentile consumers, most of whom   
   are unaware of the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax. If the ADL and Jewish   
   organizations were genuinely concerned with honesty, they would have done   
   this long ago.   
      
   Jewish organizations do not necessarily seem to be concerned with honesty in   
   this matter, however. In some advertisements of products bearing "K" or "U"   
   symbols in magazines, these symbols will often actually be "hidden" or   
   "masked off." However, when these same items are advertised in Jewish   
   publications, these symbols might actually be larger and have an arrow   
   pointing to them.(4) This is, of course, deceptive advertising and goes to   
   show that there are concerns among Jews or the companies that sell these   
   Kosher products of the meaning behind these symbols becoming known.   
      
   While the ADL suggests that the claim "only a small segment of the American   
   population desires such markings" is an 'anti-Semitic' lie, the truth speaks   
   otherwise. In fact, according to the Kosher-certification agency Star-K,   
   "Integrated Marketing Communications reports that approximately 2.5 million   
   Jews consume kosher food products."(5) So what about the other 297.5 million   
   people in the United States? Why are we then forced to pay for their Jewish   
   religious dietary habits; why are we forced to pay for the Rabbinical Kosher   
   Excise Tax?   
      
   The ADL argues that "the cost to the consumer for this service is a   
   miniscule [sic] fraction of the total production overhead; it is so   
   negligible in practical terms as to be virtually non-existent." Is this   
   true? I certainly would have no problems if Jews wanted to certify products   
   as being Kosher or not at entirely their own costs.   
      
   As you might suspect, such talk by the ADL is either an outright lie on its   
   part or, at best, deceptive. For example, the ADL report cites a   
   "representative of the Heinz Company." This "representative" reportedly said   
   that the cost is "so small we can't even calculate it." This Heinz   
   "representative" also said that the extra business it received more than   
   made up for the costs associated with the Rabbinical Kosher Excise Tax. Who   
   was this "representative"? If what he stated was true, why is his name not   
   even given in the ADL's article for verification? Did this person even   
   exist?   
      
   Quite to the contrary of the ADL's article, the Canadian Jewish News of   
   March 20, 2003, has an article with an interesting headline: "Heinz Canada   
   trims kosher product line." Many of the Canadian Heinz's products were no   
   longer to be certified Kosher (thereby avoiding the Rabbinical Kosher Excise   
   Tax, symbolized by Canada's "COR" - Council of Orthodox Rabbis' marking),   
   although a few products would still be kept Kosher for Jews. Apparently,   
   according to (named) Heinz spokeswoman Anna Relyea, this was done to "keep   
   costs down while continuing to provide [some] kosher products to our   
   customers." The reasons -- given by Heinz for the decision to cut back its   
      
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