Recognition of the California Kashruth bill received its first test here in the office of the Los Angeles County Prosecutor’s Office, when Deputy Prosecutor E. I. Rodan summoned Max Woloshin, proprietor of a Jewish delicatessen store to answer to charges that he had sold a non-kosher sandwich as kosher. The charge was brought by a customer at the store.
The Deputy Prosecutor called upon Rabbis M. S. Neches and Henach Singer to testify on the kashruth aspects. The case was dropped when the customer failed to produce witnesses, but the Jewish store-keeper announced that he had taken the sign “kosher” off his place of business. The prosecutor, nevertheless, issued a warning against the sale of food misrepresented as kosher.
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