What are the odds something silly like this would stir a commotion among non-jews? I'm sure there are sane people, but it just seems like nowadays Christians would be all offended, Evangelicals would start foaming and Muslims would issue a fatwah...
A posh food store in New York's Greenwich Village has found itself red faced after offering hams for sale with the slogan "Delicious for Hanukkah," the current Jewish religious holiday.
The non-kosher labelling was spotted at the weekend by Manhattan novelist Nancy Kay Shapiro, 46, who decided instead of alerting management to take a picture of the unorthodox sign and post it on the Internet.
"I just thought it was funny," Shapiro, who described herself as an unobservant Jew, told the New York Post. "I wasn't offended in any way. I just thought, here's somebody who knows nothing about what Jews eat."
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Pork and shellfish are among the foods considered unclean under Jewish law.
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