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Beef between Brum shuls leads to split in supplies

August 5, 2013 09:59

BySimon Rocker, Simon Rocker

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Birmingham’s Orthodox community has been unable to agree a common plan to supply kosher food after the city’s only kosher butcher closed a few weeks ago.

As a result, two new outlets for supervised food are due to open this month, prompting questions about their long-term viability.

From next Thursday, The Grocer at Edgbaston will operate a kosher section selling meat, bread and other produce under the supervision of Singers Hill minister Rabbi Yossi Jacobs.

But Birmingham’s Central Synagogue is also planning to run a kosher shop on its renovated premises, barely a mile away, from August 22.