I have lived and stayed in enough Jewish communities to understand that many places don’t have a kosher restaurant simply because of community politics. Community politics can get in the way of many things, but restaurants are usually a huge point of contention and know that your community is not alone if it does have these issues.
The local kasharus agency isn’t good enough for everyone
There is a yeshiva in town that controls everything
There is a yeshiva in town that thinks it owns the place
The modern shul hates the frum shul
The lubavitchers wont eat there
The modern people all eat milchigs out anyway
It will create a hangout for boys and girls – we don’t want it
The Rav thinks the community is too poor to support it
The frummies wont eat there
The guy opening it isn’t frum and wont pay for the vaad
Someone threatens someone else if they open it
There is only one other and the Rav likes to practice monopolistic tactics
I am sure there are many more and they are all stupid, if you don’t want to daven in someone’s shul that’s one thing, but to prevent a whole community from enjoying a restaurant because you are on some power trip just plain old sucks.
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