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Thursday, January 01, 2009

Pork bellies and Yarmulkas at the Dovetail Restaurant 

NOTICE: This was only posted for irony value. No assumption should be made that the Yarmulka-clad gentleman actually had anything non-Kosher to eat at the restaurant.

Photo by: The New York Times

NO DISTRACTIONS The décor at Dovetail on the Upper West Side is plain, in contrast to its menu.

A WINTER that hadn’t slapped us around too much was suddenly in a hostile mood, gusting with snow as I trudged — skidded, really — five blocks from the subway to Dovetail, where hunched employees shoveled and shoveled some more in a doomed effort to keep the entrance clear.

I expected an empty restaurant. That’s what happens when the going gets wet: diners trash their reservations, take out their delivery menus and hunker down for the duration with General Tso’s chicken. It’s the only practical response.

There’s an appetizer that combines two of the most fashionable ingredients in upscale restaurants these days, seared pork belly and a slowly poached egg, and as soon as you taste them together, you smile at what’s afoot. It’s breakfast for dinner, only at breakfast the belly is smoked and called bacon.

http://events.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/dining/reviews/20rest.html

Comments:
You should remove this picture ASAP. I don’t know this guy, but many of us in the business world sometimes have no choice and we have to attend a dinner in a non kosher restaurant and it is unfair for this person to have his picture posted all over the place like this and give someone the wrong impression. I know that anyone with a brain will understand why this guy is there, heck, if he wanted to eat treif why wear a yarmikah?

Please be a mentch and remove this, I’m sure you would be very unhappy if this happened to you. This guy did nothing wrong.

 

He probably ordered a cup of coffee or a soda. It is totally unfair to humiliate this Jew in this fashion.

 

Anonymous : January 01, 2009 7:25 PM is absolutely correct.

Although I personally would not wear a yarmulkah in a treif restaurant when at a meeting, your mileage may vary.

 

This is nothing compared to Yeshivas John.

 

Even if he is fasting that day, he should not be sitting at a table in a clearly treif restaurant in a position where someone can reasonably think he is eating.

For those of us who missed this lesson each time it was taught, several times in every grade in yeshiva from 1st grade through high school, the concept is Marit Ayin.

Marit Ayin

If you refrain from a permitted action because Jews might see you and think you're really doing some other (forbidden) action, that's Ma'arit Ayin.

That is a principle that one should refrain from certain actions because your fellow Jew might think the action they think you're doing is OK.

When I am drinking water in a non-kosher restaurant on a business lunch, I do not wear my yarmulka for that reason.

The "anyone with a brain" should know the principle. The burden is not on the person seeing, it's on the person doing the action.

If one continues to fail to understand this, ask your child's 4th grade Rebbe for a remedial private lesson.

 

I personaly know this guy and he is a very prominent frum man which would never eat something not kosher. He attends a daily Daf Hayomi shiur. He was siiting there with some clients.

 

At least hes not holding a sign that says "kill all the jews" like those satmars

 

At least hes not holding a sign that says "kill all the jews" like those modern orthodox.

 

To the satmar that keeps posting:

I thought your not allowed internet? but what do you care all you guys go to whores too and post swinger ads on craigslist!! keep up the chilul hashems your community is doing a great job at it!!

 

This clearly looks like a Business meeting! His partner looks very much like Uncle Bernie (Madoff)
BTW; I saw (or heard) the following... ; Some [people] say, we're better off. Some say, we're worse off. We say, we're Madoff!!!

 

You guys are a bunch of ham haratzim. If you guys knew anything about halacha you would know that there are teshuvas that say that when you have to go to a non kosher restaurant for a business meeting you should davka wear your yarmula to AVOID issues of maris ayin. Why dont you people stop playing on the computer all day and actuially learn a little something?

 

R' M. Feinstein ruled it was better not to remove one's kippa when (sinfully) entering an inappropriate place like a dance club, even though some feared this would desecrate God's name (YD 2:33).

 

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