The owner of the restaurant, Tehilla Waknin, is a divorcee who decided to take the pain of her own divorce and use it humorously for her business enterprise, which offers reductions for “divorcees paying child support” as well as stating that “You don’t have to get married for food” and “You can’t cheat on food.”
Waknin, who left her religious way of life after getting a divorce from her abusive husband, said that she was “shocked” by the Badatz’s decision. “I am a single mother who emerged from a shelter for abused women. The title of ‘divorcee’ has been central to my life. I couldn’t stay chareidi after they shunned me and called me a shiksa. I bled for my status,” Waknin added. She decided to promote her culinary talents by opening a Moroccan-style restaurant, which was slated to open last week.
Apparently people had told the Badatz about the name of the establishment and the picture she used of a curly-haired woman and they had decided to remove the hechsher, forcing her to delay opening and race to find another hechsher. In the end, Rabbi Shlomo Amar from the Jerusalem Rabbinate granted her a hechsher and she says that “The rabbinate is no less strict than other hechsherim, in some ways it is stricter.”
“I insisted on a hechsher since I want to serve the chareidi community and see it enjoy my delicacies, this is the community I wished to work with,” Waknin said. On her Facebook page she added that “I took all of my fears and turned them into humor. The name is not meant to make noise and antagonism. There is a lot of meaning behind it. Divorcee is not something negative, divorcee means a woman who is fighting for her rights.”
The restaurant formally opened with the new hechsher on Sunday, July 2nd.
8 comments:
"Waknin, who left her religious way of life after getting a divorce from her abusive husband."
That’s her narrative. Reality might be a bit different.
And Btw, over the years, I also could have left my "religious way of life" for a million reasons. But my honesty prevailed, as simple as this.
"She said that she was shocked by the Badatz’s decision."
Well, the Badatz has it’s own rules & procedures.
The Badatz doesn't owe her anything.
"I am a single mother who emerged from a shelter for abused women."
The Victim Business opens a world of opportunities. Known fact.
"The title of ‘divorcee’ has been central to my life"
Central ? Really ? This alone says a lot about her psychology and intentions.
"I couldn’t stay chareidi after they shunned me and called me a shiksa. I bled for my status"
Should we all have rachmonus on this too ?
Apparently people had told the Badatz about the name of the establishment and the picture she used of a curly-haired woman.
This logo alone is a big mistake.
"I insisted on a hechsher since I want to serve the chareidi community and see it enjoy my delicacies, this is the community I wished to work with,” Waknin said.
Well, dear lady, you can’t dance in two chasenes... Life is all about making choices.
"Divorcee is not something negative, divorcee means a woman who is fighting for her rights."
Playing victim... yes, we all know. BLM ideology $$$ nothing new.
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If you are so convinced of the truth of your Loshon Hora, why are you anonymous? No guts.
> Well, dear lady, you can’t dance in two chasenes... Life is all about making choices.
You mean how like the Chareidi parties suck money out of the Israeli treasury put there by hard working seculars and then turn around, refuse to work and mock the seculars who do?
11:07
The Badatz are basically a gang of criminals, but they are afraid that it would effect their bottom line if they would ,G-d Forbid, give a hechsher to a restaurant that has a logo of a curly haired lady.
This has nothing to do with the kashrus or the owner, as they readily give hechsheirim to their own "frenkin" who are out and out thieves and some of them are open mechallei shabbos!
The restaurant will do well with tourists despite the Badatz Mafia Syndicate's refusal to grant them their filthy teuda!
Do you realize there is nothing by the name Badatz? It could refer to several hechsherim. I don't think you know which hechsher this is. I guarntee you she's not relying on tourists. The world doesn't revolve around Americans. Locals also eat out. I wish her lock, even though she has a chip on her shoulder.
6:52
Did you read the first few sentences of the article? It explicitly states that it is the Beit Yosef Badatz! The chief criminals
6:52
The restaurant is on Rechov Yaffo she relies on tourists. From Locals she will go broke!
JG - totally agree
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