Hi, Rabbi. Some friends recently introduced me to an Indian restaurant which is certified diary/kosher by a rabbi/organization that I've never heard of. Unfortunately, I don't have their card and can't tell you who it is. The problem that I have is that this place is filled with carvings, paintings, and statues of Hindu deities. Right next to the door to the street is an enormous figure of the elephant god. I used to study about Hindu religion and am intellectually comfortable with it, but the juxtaposition of idols and kashrus and the assumed encouragement of Jews to engage in that environment is confusing to me. Is this, overall, a "kosher" situation, or is the cerfitying rabbi missing something by not insisting that if the establishment wants Jewish patronage, they need to tone down the decorating? Thank you.

Hi, Rabbi. Some friends recently introduced me to an Indian restaurant which is certified diary/kosher by a rabbi/organization that I've never heard of. Unfortunately, I don't have their card and can't tell you who it is. The problem that I have is that this place is filled with carvings, paintings, and statues of Hindu deities. Right next to the door to the street is an enormous figure of the elephant god. I used to study about Hindu religion and am intellectually comfortable with it, but the juxtaposition of idols and kashrus and the assumed encouragement of Jews to engage in that environment is confusing to me. Is this, overall, a "kosher" situation, or is the cerfitying rabbi missing something by not insisting that if the establishment wants Jewish patronage, they need to tone down the decorating? Thank you.

Hello Rabbi Lauffer, thank you very much for your reply to my question about Rabbi Yochanan...I read his comment in the bottom margin of the commentary on Psalm 10 from Tehillim about the Shechinah atop the Mount of Olives for three and a half years. Any further insight you could give me would be greatly appreciated, especially on how this event would tie in with the verse Isaiah 55 vs 6...thank you, Becky

Hello Rabbi Lauffer, thank you very much for your reply to my question about Rabbi Yochanan...I read his comment in the bottom margin of the commentary on Psalm 10 from Tehillim about the Shechinah atop the Mount of Olives for three and a half years. Any further insight you could give me would be greatly appreciated, especially on how this event would tie in with the verse Isaiah 55 vs 6...thank you, Becky

would like to attend the singles event at park synagogue but do not have a place to stay for shabbos. do you have any single guys that could put me up for fri. night. thankyou I am 25 years old single, medical student. thanks