{"id":172,"date":"2020-03-17T00:24:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/?p=172"},"modified":"2020-07-16T10:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T14:06:34","slug":"local-kosher-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/17\/local-kosher-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring for Our Local Kosher Businesses (Greater Washington)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our dear community members,<\/p>\n<p>We are all aware of the enormous strain on businesses during these times. We direct your attention specifically to our caterers, restaurants and food providers such as our kosher supermarkets. Their \u201csit down\u201d business has been reduced to zero with the cancellation of events and mandatory reductions in or elimination of public events.<\/p>\n<p>These are the proprietors who help us keep kosher all year long and provide us with the best service possible on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n<p>It is not our intent to direct you to one provider over another. Nevertheless, we do appeal to you to direct as much business as possible\u00a0<em><strong>locally<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0so that our community&#8217;s kosher vendors can minimize the negative financial impact on their businesses and \u2014 in some cases \u2014 literally survive this crisis. For their part, some local businesses have implemented free delivery and various other incentives to encourage you to patronize them.<\/p>\n<p>With Hashem\u2019s help, this crisis will pass and we all want these providers to be there for us \u2014 just as they have been in the past \u2014 going forward.\u00a0<strong>Now, we need to be there for them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the utmost respect and gratitude for your support and with every wish for strength and faith in Hashem,<\/p>\n<p>The Vaad HaRabanim of Greater Washington<\/p>\n<p>[March 17]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our dear community members, We are all aware of the enormous strain on businesses during these times. We direct your attention specifically to our caterers, restaurants and food providers such as our kosher supermarkets. Their \u201csit down\u201d business has been reduced to zero with the cancellation of events and mandatory reductions in or elimination of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[510263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1576,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}