Keeping the Kosher Law in New Orleans - Well, sort of trying to ---

[packman]

On the last Sunday in May, as happens so often in spring in Louisiana, a room fills with tables covered in red-checked tablecloths and
set with endless rolls of paper towel. In the center sits a plastic kiddie pool with a quarter-ton of crawfish, awaiting service with big metal scoops, like the kind you’d find in a hotel ice machine. Bright red, boiled through with local spices, ready for their tails to be pinched and their heads sucked, the ripe crustaceans await some 150 or more diners. What sets this crawfish boil apart is the location and the audience: It’s a fundraiser for the Brotherhood of Temple Sinai, held inside the Jewish synagogue.

Kosher law, the Jewish dietary guidelines, expressly forbid the consumption of shellfish. “All creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales … you are to regard as unclean,” declares Leviticus 11 -12. But as is so often the case, the Torah doesn’t account for everything, most certainly not the settlement of Jews deep in the heart of Catholic Louisiana, where shrimp, pork, and shellfish drive diets, dinners, and community.


.... Culture and place collide in the most delicious of way in New Orleans - Tough to toe the line in regard to Kosher laws in the Big Easy .

Read the menu for the banquet at the ordination of the first class of rabbis of the Hebrew Union College in 1883. Oy vey the Rabbi are rendering their garments in the Old country.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/jewish-crawfish-boil-new-orleans

[elleng]

1. 'Temple Sinai is Louisiana's biggest and oldest congregation of the Reform Jewish movement,

a form of the religion with very little focus on keeping kosher. Instead of Jewish law, their priority, per their website, is “serving the spiritual needs of its diverse membership.” In general, the Reform movement is more about retaining a connection to Jewish learning and community than adhering precisely to the commands of the Torah—a 2013 Pew Study found that only 7 percent of Reform Jews in the U.S. keep kosher.'

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Rules are made to be broken!

If it ain’t in the Ten Commandments it ain’t a law. Personally I view the TCs as suggestions!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Maybe it's all in the translation:

"Shell" and "Scale" are kind of the same. And a claw might be used as a fin, maybe.

Bon apetit!