“It was all identical to the previous place, just a bit larger,” Piamenta says. “We agreed on the same price, but he explained that we needed to renew the kashrut certificate because of the new location,” Piamenta relates. Later, the supervisor told Piamenta over the telephone that he needed to raise the price: “I met your Russian partner, he doesn’t look right to me. “It’s no secret that the nonreligious pay more for the same kashrut certificate,” Piamenta says the supervisor told him. And now he is losing money because without a kashrut certificate, many of his customers will no longer eat there.

Source: Ethiopian News September 03, 2017 13:37 UTC