Call for allowing only "national" kosher supervisions issued by high-ranking employee of OU and former OU senior employee.
Streit's management called it an "ambush," and so it is.
Rabbi Yosef Eisen, head of the 5 Towns Vaad HaKashrus, is a former senior employee of the OU who still works closely with the OU, as a simple Google search of the OU Kosher website shows.
You can do the same for Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, head of the Queens Vaad HaKashrus, and get even more results. That is because Rabbi Schonfeld still works for the OU. In fact, as David Kelsey notes, last year Rabbi Schonfeld appeared on the Nachum Segal Show in his official OU capacity. What did he speak about? Passover products. And Rabbi Schonfeld – a current OU senior employee – started the Streit's ban.
The fish stinks from its head, as the old Yiddish saying goes. In this case, the head is carrying a large OU "Kosher for Passover" seal.
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