A Burden to Overcome

Before supplying meals for the soldiers, many of the Tel Aviv restaurants had a hurdle to overcome. Some restaurants in this city unfortunately did not maintain kosher kitchens, or were kosher “style”, while others, whose owners kept their kitchens nominally kosher, didn’t have a teudah, a kashrut certification. But their desire to help, to do chesed, was so strong, that they undertook the proper measures to kasher their restaurants and receive certification.

As chef Shalom Simcha Elbert of OCD (one of the top restaurants, known for the chef’s meticulous care that goes into every dish – hence the name OCD) said, “The restaurant now has kosher supervisors and is closed for Shabbat... We want to feed people in a way that will honor them.”