The Zim Navigation Company disclosed today it would not implement the agreement it signed last year with the Associated Legislative Rabbinate of America for supervision of kosher arrangements on Its new liner, the Shalom.
The agreement with the American rabbinical group was signed after the Israeli rabbinate indicated it would refuse kosher certification to the new luxury liner because it will have both a kosher and a non-kosher kitchen.
The disclosure by Zim was seen as indicating that is might lead to renewed negotiations between the ship company and the Israel rabbinate to resolve the dispute over the double kitchens, which has touched off a worldwide Jewish controversy.
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