In a blow to the Chief Rabbinate, Israel’s Tzohar organization which aims to provide alternative hechsherim to restaurants across Israel, is in the advanced stages of a deal to work with the official hotels’ association in a major city in Israel.
The organization stepped up efforts to enter the hotel business in Israel and overseas over the past few months. It provided a hechsher in Egypt over Chanukah and plans to offer certification to hotels in Europe and Africa over Pesach.
{Matzav.com Israel}
Disaster? I would hope that frum people know better and do not use these establishments. I am afraid that many will be mislead though. It’s like Open Non-Orthodoxy giving hashgochos. Terrible news.
Please explain. What is Tzohar? What is wrong with them? Why don’t hotels need too be under the supervision of the chief Rabbinate?