Attempt to Curb Hotel Representation on Matter of Kashruth

A concerted effort to rid the summer resorts of this country of deliberate misrepresentation practiced by hotels in the matter of kashruth is now being made by the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, according to a statement given the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, by Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati, President of the Agudah, who is now in this city together with a Committee of representative Orthodox Rabbis for this purpose.

As explained by Rabbi Silver, thousands of Jewish families throughout the country are misled annually as a result of assurances given by hotel-keepers that food is prepared in accordance with Jewish dietary laws. Though taken in good faith, this assurance Rabbi Silver characterized as willful misrepresentation.

In order to obtain more details Rabbi Silver several weeks ago instructed a committee of leading Orthodox Rabbis to study this problem. This Committee having completed a survey of the summer resorts in New England; Southern New Jersey, Washington, D. C. and the various mountain places, is now assembling in Atlantic City to compare notes and to formulate a plan of action. The entire committee will be the guest of Rabbi Hersh Manishevitz at Grundwerg’s Hotel New Yorker, on Sunday, to make formal report and to adopt a modus operandi.

In addition to Rabbi Silver and Rabbi Manishevitz, the Committee includes Rabbi B. L. Levinthal of Philadelphia; Rabbi Moses Shapiro, Atlantic City; Rabbi Yohlin, Rabbi Simon, Rabbi Cherkofsky, Rabbi Englander and Rabbi Kurland of Philadelphia; Rabbi Werner of Palestine; Prof. David J. Macht of John Hopkins University; Morris Galil of Hazelton and others.