KEEPING IT KOSHER; SHOPKEEPER TAKING LIQUOR ISSUE TO COUNCIL.Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer After its petition for a license was rejected by the state Alcohol Beverage Control Department, a new Jewish market wants permission from the City Council to sell kosher wine Kosher wine (Hebrew: יין כשר, yayin kashér) is wine produced according to Judaism's religious law, specifically, the Jewish dietary laws regarding wine. . The Kosher kosher [Heb.,=proper, i.e., fit for use], in Judaism, term used in rabbinic literature to mean what is ritually correct, but most widely applied to food that is in accordance with dietary laws based on Old Testament passages (primarily Lev. 11 and Deut. 14). Connection, which opened two weeks ago, sells a variety of kosher meats and foods prepared under the supervision of a rabbi. The rabbinical rab·bin·i·cal also rab·bin·ic adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of rabbis. [From obsolete rabbin, rabbi, from French, from Old French rabain, probably from Aramaic scrutiny supplements the county's health inspectors, said Avi Harouch, the market's owner. ``It's like I'm getting three kinds of inspection all the time,'' Harouch said. The state Alcohol Beverage Control Department rejected the Kosher Connection's application for a liquor license Noun 1. liquor license - a license authorizing the holder to sell alcoholic beverages liquor licence license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something because the census tract A census tract, census area, or census district is a particular community defined for the purpose of taking a census. Usually these coincide with the limits of cities, towns or other administrative areas and several tracts commonly exist within a county. in which it sits already had the maximum number of licenses allowed, said Lonnie Corley, a supervising investigator with the department. The tract, which generally is bordered by the Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. on the south, Kanan Road on the East and the Ventura County line on the west and north, is allowed 11 liquor licenses, based upon its population of 14,826 people, Corley said. The Kosher Connection's application would have been the 12th, he said. The store owners now are asking the City Council to find that such a license would provide a ``public convenience or necessity,'' which would allow it to sell wrapped gift baskets that contain bottles of kosher wine used in Sabbath services. The council is scheduled to discuss the issue at its meeting tonight. ``This particular case is intended for an entirely different purpose,'' said Dave Anderson Dave Anderson might refer to:
Although the city's Ralphs and Vons supermarkets sell kosher wine, they do not provide the variety available at many kosher stores, said Rabbi Gershon Johnson of Temple Beth Haverim. ``It's so logical to have a Jewish kosher restaurant store to have kosher wine available,'' Johnson said. ``This isn't an issue of trying to sell all types of liquors.'' The closest kosher store is in Reseda, 14 miles away. ``Everybody's happy here,'' Harouch said. ``They don't have to drive into the sun in the Valley just to get something, to get a piece of meat.'' The city staff, the Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. have all come down in support of granting the market a license to sell kosher wine. Places that offer individual servings of alcohol represent the highest concern for law-enforcement officers, said Capt. Bill McSweeney. ``In this case it was packaged alcohol,'' McSweeney said. ``We certainly have the impression that this didn't represent a public-safety issue.'' That determination is based on the the history of the area and the record of the people requesting the license, he said. ``It goes town by town, even block by block,'' McSweeney said. ``It seemed to me like buying liquor at a grocery store. This clearly was carry-out.'' Kosher wine is ``not, I would guess, the alcohol of choice for people who are thinking of intoxication intoxication, condition of body tissue affected by a poisonous substance. Poisonous materials, or toxins, are to be found in heavy metals such as lead and mercury, in drugs, in chemicals such as alcohol and carbon tetrachloride, in gases such as carbon monoxide, and ,'' he said. The council is scheduled to meet 7 tonight at City Hall, 30101 Agoura Court. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Shopkeeper Avi Harouch smiles, happy about the opening of his Kosher Connection deli in Agoura Hills. Terri Thuente/Daily News |
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