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Chairman of Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States @RabbisAlliance/İstanbul Aşkenaz Hahami/Jewish/American/Husband/Father of 8 • Kişisel görüşüm/Personal opinions

Jul 27, 2021, 14 tweets

Day 2 of #TurkeyJewishRoadtrip:

On the road from Bursa to Çeşme

While on road lets talk😊

Did you know that #Turkey is an important source of #Kosher food? Hundreds of manufacturers all over the country produce anything from raw material to ready to eat products.

By the way: Kosher food does not mean food that is blessed by a rabbi!

Rather it is food that has been prepared according to Jewish law - there are no mixtures of meat/milk, it is insect free, meat or chicken have to be prepared properly according to Jewish law and more...

The Turkish Jewish community @tyahuditoplumu through @DenetGida which certifies hundreds of plants, as well as the @OrthodoxUnion and @OKKosher have their field representatives inspect plants to assure they are fit for the kosher consumer.

Last year @EliChitrik and I did our first #TurkeyJewishRoadtrip - we visited some 100 manufacturing facilities, to assure that they fit to the kosher standards... @DavidianKlein wrote about our trip at the @jdforward

forward.com/news/454465/a-…

Oh... The beauty in the simplicity...

@ChaimChitrik at the wheel...

Wow! #Cesme a dream location for a dream wedding!!

Stay tuned....

All formalities have been signed... And we are about to begin... #wedding #Happiness

#MazalTov to the Bride and the Groom!

What an amazing #celebration of happiness!

Who knows what this is?

#izmir #custom #gelenek...

KEZADA is an #İzmirli Jewish ritual/Minhag where a tray full full of kezada (marzipan) shaped like two doves (and lots of Kezada eggs - to multiply!) it is passed over the heads of the bride and groom after the Hupah!

What a sweet custom! Buen Mazal para todos!

#Dance #Cesme it's a wedding!

Rabbi Eitan Webb @Chabad of Princeton University @ChabadOnCampus officiated - and asked me to say a few words - I shared the significance of breaking a glass at the end of a Hupah (marriage ceremony)...

"We are a people of #history...We break a glass to remember #Jerusalem..."

High or low - we shall always remember that endurance is the key to redemption!

Mazal Tov!!!

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