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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a ridiculous thread.

I am a Jewish MB and keep a kosher home. My nanny has worked for many kosher-keeping families and has no problems putting the dairy forks in the dairy drawer and the meat forks in the meat drawer. If she doesnt know where to  put something, she leaves it on the counter.

She doesnt mix meat and dairy for the kids food, same way she would avoid certain foods if we had allergies. Its really not that big a deal and requires neither special training nor extra pay.

Any nanny who is purposely putting forks in the wrong drawer is lazy and disrespectful and that has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with a poor work ethic. [/quote]

If you put a meat fork and dairy spoon on the same counter what happens?[/quote]
Anyone?[/quote]

Seriously? This thread is getting out of hand. It's really obnoxious to make fun of anyone's religious beliefs and customs. If anyone made light of a nanny's Christmas traditions what do you think the reaction would be here? Nothing happens if a meat fork and a diary fork are on the same counter. [/quote]

Honestly I was just curious, I wrote nothing but a simple question, you took it offensively. I am curious because if the separation is so strict as to require separate dishwasher, sinks, plates, drawers etc.... how can you put a spoon with milk on it and a fork with bits of meat on the same counter... the counter would need to be destroyed. It just doesn't make sense.[/quote]

No, the counter wouldn't need to be destroyed. Firstly, it'd be the nanny's "sin" (though we don't really do sins, but I'm using word you'd understand) rather than the family's, and secondly, you just would clean the counter extra well. Probably the way you would before Passover. [/quote]
If a Jewish person committed such a "sin," what would you call it, rather than a "sin"?[/quote]

Ummm ... a mistake? We don't "do" sins. There's a hebrew phrase for something that basically means "an act against God." So maybe it'd be called that. There's another hebrew phrase that means like, "not according to the torah" or more loosely "not the Jewish way." [/quote]

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