Cartoon Images Of Women No Longer Kosher For Passover?

The iconic, stylized cartoon logo of a modestly dressed woman sprinkling salt has been removed from Salit salt packages sold in some haredi stores.

Cartoon Images Of Women No Longer Kosher For Passover?
Israel Salt Company Removes Part Of Its Iconic Logo To Appease Haredim

The iconic, stylized cartoon logo of a modestly dressed woman sprinkling salt is removed from packages sold in some haredi stores.
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

The often illegal exclusion of women from public life in Jerusalem and other areas of israel with large haredi populations is fueled by haredi demands for illegal gender segregation in public spaces and new haredi hyper-understandings of “modesty.”

That exclusion of women has now reportedly caused a major Israeli food company to remove part of its iconic logo.

Packages of Salit table salt normally feature a stylized cartoon drawing in blue ink of a modestly clothed woman sprinkling a pinch of salt.

But some packages being sold in haredi stores are missing the drawing.

The drawing wasn’t covered by a sticker or blocked out with a marker – increasingly common occurrences on toothbrush packages, cereal boxes and other retail products’ packaging that are sold in haredi stores.

Instead, Salit completely removed the drawing – which is part of the company’s longstanding and iconic logo – by printing entirely new packaging.

Salit is owned by Israel Salt Industries, the country’s largest salt manufacturer, which is owned by Shari Arison’s Arison Group. The Arison Group is also the controlling shareholder in Bank Hapoalim, which recently reportedly removed a female actress from its billboards in Bnei Brak.

Salit claims the packaging change was done to distinguish Passover and non-Passover salt.

“The character of the woman was removed from the packages of Salit table salt that are kosher for Passover under Badatz [the rabbinical court of the rabidly anti-Zionist Edah Haredit faction] supervision, so as to create a distinction between Passover and non-Passover products. Packages of Salit table salt that are sold throughout the year under Badatz supervision bear the image of the woman,” a Salit spokesperson told Ha’aretz.

Salit’s Passover packaging is white; it’s year-round packaging is tan.

Cnaan Advertising, which has the contract for advertising on all public Egged buses in Jerusalem, recently was forced to restore women's photographs and depictions to bus ads in the capital after women's groups and open society advocates filed a petition with the High Court of Justice.

Comments

[Sarah]

If a cartoon can arouse is a danger to these
clowns......they are beyond all hope.

[Prag]

Interesting though how those (I presume non-working) extremists have enough buying power to have a company adjust a logo for them?

[Jack]

As long as they are not blurring them.

[Darth Zeidah]

This story should really be taken with a pinch of ...

[Eli, what me messiah?]

I feel so bad for her. Being a haredi cartoon, she probably lacks the skills to land a job that secular cartoons occupy. She's clearly not into computer graphics. And, not to dwell on the obvious, but Jessica Rabbit she's not.

Poor thing. Is this the cruel destiny facing all haredi female cartoons?

[David]

The frumma are already badly socially maladjusted.

What of the future whereby today's frumma male kids will grow up never having seen a picture of a woman and will have had very little contact with them except for mothers and sisters. Even the chances of seeing women in public are diminishing with segregated buses, cashier lines and sidewalks etc..

[Fleishike Kishke]

Oh, those hips.

[Haredi to boogie]

Wow, that cartoon is so hot it should be the centerfold in Playgoy.

And those monstrously wide hips, makes me want to rub my whole body with my great-grandmother's sheitl.

[Bas Melech]

What is the halachic basis?

[David]

What is the halachic basis?

Posted by: Bas Melech | August 27, 2012 at 08:50 AM

There isn't any. They make it up as they go and they pervert Judaism.

[Garnel Ironheart]

I don't blame Salit. They're responding to what is obviously an important market for them.
But the market itself is cuckoo-nuts.

[Frank]

Big news here! I hope then New York Post picks up on this.

[Sarek]

How does kosher for Passover salt differ from regular salt? NaCl is NaCl. I'm unaware of any yeast in the formulation.

[Liran]

How does kosher for Passover salt differ from regular salt? NaCl is NaCl. I'm unaware of any yeast in the formulation.

Posted by: Sarek | August 27, 2012 at 10:15 AM

Salt is salt, maybe the certification is more for the chametz free environment in the manufacturing/packaging.

It also could be a business decision. If I was shopping for passover and there were two boxes of salt right next to one another, identically priced, one certified KP one not I would buy the KP one.

I would assume that the extra cost to "certify" an already KP product would be miniscule and may be prudent from a business perspective to have the certification.

[rebitzman]

How does kosher for Passover salt differ from regular salt? NaCl is NaCl. I'm unaware of any yeast in the formulation.

Salt can be iodized using a corn derivative(kitniot). Sea salt does not require kosher of passover treatment, BUT from a marketing standpoint, it ain't a bad plan to have that hecksher.

Oh, and yeast is not the issue with anything.

[Expatriate Owl]

"How does kosher for Passover salt differ from regular salt? NaCl is NaCl. I'm unaware of any yeast in the formulation."

Salt, particularly if it is iodized, is commonly processed with dextrose, which can have chometz issues.

[parked at your basement]

For once being frum, your pretty dumb, Shmarya, that you couldn't figure out what going on here. Instead you just concoct a headline caption which is just untrue and misleading.
I do, however, enjoy most of your posts.

[Mike M.]

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse than the "Monsey Tzniut Alert!" post, they manage to do something even more insane in a matter of days. These people are freaking insane.

[Liran]

Salit is owned by Israel Salt Industries, the country’s largest salt manufacturer, which is owned by Shari Arison’s Arison Group. The Arison Group is also the controlling shareholder in Bank Hapoalim

I wonder if this directive came from the very top, this could be the start of a major scandal which could take down Bank Hapoalim! Wow!

[SkepticalYid]

Posted by: rebitzman | August 27, 2012 at 11:00 AM

It reminds me of the time an entrepreneur in Teaneck, N.J. decided to advertise "Kosher for Passover Gasoline" at 10 dollars a gallon.

[NeverFrum]

Baruch Hashem....do you know how much seed was needlessly spilled due solely to this cartoon woman.

[WoolSilkCotton, rock star and sports superstar]

The iodine tastes terrible, so they add sweeteners to make it taste better.

[Bob Guthrie]

Posted by: Frank
"Big news here! I hope then New York Post picks up on this."

You are right, Frank!. The removal or blurring of iconic, art, or photo media of the Female Genre from public view on the desires of misogynistic extremist zealots is big news!. Major companies censoring their selling product icon imagery to accommodate just 10% of the population of Israel on fear of boycott!. Stop the presses!.

But you are thinking small, Frank!. NY Post?. Think big!. Think... CNN!: http://youtu.be/QPbE0XPjpKE. Or better yet, Big Social Media, like the The Huffington Post!: http://goo.gl/Lbskh.

Now that's coverage!, So they can see... how degenerate misogynistic and social backwards extremist Charedim really are, Frankie...

So, don't worry your little shtreimel squeezed head there, putz, they are getting all the deserved exposure necessary to showcase they Religious zealotism. >=)

[Bob Guthrie]

Posted by: Bas Melech
"What is the halachic basis?."

The degenerate interpretation of it by extremist Charedim (think good ol' "Lev Tahor", but milder in this case).

[Bob Guthrie]

Posted by: parked at your basement
"For once being frum, your pretty dumb, Shmarya, that you couldn't figure out what going on here."

Oh, good!. An opposing (albeit insulting) counterpoint!. Let us see what Shmarya missed.

(...)

Oookay. You know what, Parkie dear?, a counter argument is normally followed by the necessary information to prove your point.

The "You are wrong, A**hole, because I said so, and I'm not going to say f*cking why!" school of debate is not one that's going to be taken too seriously, ya know?. just FYI.

Moving on.

[Bob Guthrie]

"Salit claims the packaging change was done to distinguish Passover and non-Passover salt.

Cop-out.

“The character of the woman was removed from the packages of Salit table salt that are kosher for Passover under Badatz supervision, so as to create a distinction between Passover and non-Passover products."

There's a name for this in the Media Industry: Brand Suicide. Products at POS attract people based on product type, brand recognition, and presentation. Remove a know iconic logo or character, you kill any chances for prompt, assured sales. Remove the Female Chiquita banana icon character from their packages fruits?. You end with run of the mill bananas.

Need distinction?. Major change on package presentation: radical color changes (white and tan?. You gotta be kidding!), additional icons ("Passover Kosher edition!"), bands, change of fonts, change of the packaging, etc,...

"Self censoring" of your own product icon?. just knuckling down to Religious extremist via Badatz "insistence". Another day on the land of the emerging Extremist Hasidic Dinasty.

Expect more of the same.

[Rebitzman]

It reminds me of the time an entrepreneur in Teaneck, N.J. decided to advertise "Kosher for Passover Gasoline" at 10 dollars a gallon.

Don't knw if it is still available, but in the late 90's in a pre-Passover visit to Manhatten I found kosher l'Pesach roach powder in one of the stores.

[spaced out BT]

Just give me the original Maxwell House Hagadah with the picture of then 1950's Jewish family for my seder.