Is porn kosher?

Kosher symbol on porn DVD hits nerve in Teaneck
Friday, January 26, 2007

By JOHN CHADWICK
STAFF WRITER

A Teaneck rabbi has persuaded a Los Angeles-based pornographer to remove a trademark kosher symbol from the cover of a sexually explicit DVD about Israeli women.

The cover, which shows a woman striking a seductive pose, boasts that the explicit video was filmed in Israel. It also had a Hebrew letter with a "K" inside it -- the same stamp of approval that the rabbi's company slaps on thousands of kosher food products.

"It was shocking," said Rabbi Yehuda Rosenbaum, who is the administrative director of KOF-K Kosher Supervision, according to the company's Web site.

The Teaneck company is an organization of Orthodox rabbis dedicated for 40 years to "maintaining the integrity of the kosher status of foods in accordance to the highest standards of Kosher Law."

The company sent a warning letter to Tight Fit Productions -- the company that made the film -- which then agreed to remove the symbol.

Oren Cohen, head of Tight Fit, said he made a mistake.

"I just assumed that letters of the alphabet ... weren't trademarked symbols," Cohen said Thursday. "I was wrong."

Cohen said he initially used the symbol to make a statement that would be "tongue in cheek" and also a guarantee to viewers that the movie was the first adult feature filmed entirely in Israel with an Israeli cast.

"That was our reasoning," Cohen said, adding that he is fluent in Hebrew and has many relatives in Israel.

Rosenbaum said he appreciated how quickly the filmmaker responded.

"They cooperated without any hesitation," the rabbi said. "I consider the matter closed."

So, does that mean even Jewish porn isn't kosher?

 

Uh...

 

No pork was used in the making of this feature.

 

Dang it! Once again, I read the thread title too fast, and thought it said "Is pork kosher?"

Me and my stoopid speed reading....

 

Yes, it is now. No more Pigs

 

Still in touch with Kiki?

 

Brutus, if you want to give him an answer him, please do it in a PM.

 

It's all Mel Gibson's fault.

 

Only if you wear a Yamaka,or Kippot for protection.

 

What was a rabbi doing looking through porn anyways?

 

I gotta go with Jedi_Reject_Jesse on this one.

 

Rabbi: "I was watching a porno when all of a sudden AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH"

 

He just came across it while waxing his Minora.

 

Is Korn posher (as in, more posh)?

 

Only if it's done through a hole in the sheet.

 

Marge, are we Jewish?