By COLlive reporter
We have the meats!
Heads of the new kosher agency Lamed-K led an inspection tour of the AgriStar meat plant in Postville, Iowa on Monday.
Rabbi Shlomo Segal of Crown Heights, Rabbi Aaron Lieberman of Lauderhill, Florida, and Rabbi Gedalya Oberlander of Kingston, Pennsylvania, represented Lamed-K.
They also joined a meeting with the staff responsible for producing poultry and meat for the Shor Habor brand. Along with them were the Lubavitcher shochtim and bodkim, as well as Chassidic mashgichim.
While this isn’t their first visit to the plant – both Rabbis Segal and Oberlander were recently there – this was their first since the official announcement of the formation of the Lamed-K organization.
As reported on COLlive.com, they took over the supervision of Shor Habor after the Crown Heights Beis Din (CHK) terminated their cooperation with AgriStar.
A source at Lamed-K said they are working with the staff that worked for the CHK, but with the supervision of Rabbi Yossi Deren as the head of the shochatim of beef (gasos) and Rabbi Nissim Ben Atar as the head of the shochatim for poultry (ofos).
“They met the whole crew and went over the procedures and protocols,” another source in Postville said. “They had a whole tour of the place. They saw the production and shechting of beef and chicken.”
There’s no information on what was wrong and what was fixed.
And if CHK decided to take there Hechser off why did they put their Hechser on?
What was wrong? CHK never specified the issue. Agri said there were not any issues.
So I think you would need to find out details from CHK.
I definitely trust these holy rabbis with our kashrus
Liberman & Rubashkin was the original Agri, rabbi lieberman grew up in the shchita world, so nice to see him back involved in kosher meats
Can someone please explain in clear words what the situation with the Kashrus is?
I would like ONLY facts, not personal opinions.
Please reply with what you know.
Thank you very much!
The CHK just decided to add some new things that have never been required. the plant isnt lessening any standards
A few months ago rabbi Braun visited the plant with r’ Greenberg (the new chk coordinator of the shchita division) they had some things they wanted to improve, I believe not all of them were 100 percent fixed, don’t know what and how large the issues was but I can understand the chk’s approach even if some very little thing wasn’t fixed.. they got the impression that rabbi Weismandel is running the plant like he wants it to be without them able to do anything they want.. again, even it’s not a big deal of kashrus but a rov that… Read more »
Beautiful, wishing much success!
Go Kingston PA!!!
thats my Rov!!!!!!!
C.N.
may Postville be blessed infinitely forever