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SciFi Short Story. Jews in space receive food but package has a hole, is it still kosher? Read 15 years ago.
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Jan 27, 2025 08:57PM
Sf short story jews in space receive food but package has a hole, is it still kosher? Read 15 years ago.
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Coffee wrote: ""On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi" ?"That was my first go-to also!
It's about aliens converting to Judaism, can they be real Jews?
And later on, are the grey blobs real grandchildren?
(Yes and Yes)
But not the story I'm looking for.
But it does also have what you are looking for, the Jewish community on Venus receiving tins of food for Passover with holes in them and how their Rabbi manages to declare them still kosher! I read it online but don’t remember where unfortunately..
Here's an excerpt I found from that short story (or maybe just an Internet article writing about it). Was it about Passover food or just food in general?... something terrible happened on the eve of Passover. There was an explosion aboard a cargo ship on its way to Venus. ... the cargo was damaged and the ship arrived very late, just ... before the first seder... on this ship was all the special Passover food that had been ordered from Earth by the 24 Jewish families of the Altoona Burrow, and the special food was in cans and airtight packages. When the delivery was made, the Altoona people noticed that the cans had been banged about and dented—but, worse than that, most of the cans had tiny holes all over them. Disaster! According to the Rabbinical Council of 2135 on Space Travel Kashruth, food which is in a punctured can is automatically unclean, unclean for daily use, unclean for Passover use. And here it is almost the seder and what can they do?
That is definitely an excerpt from On Venus have we got a Rabbi not an article about it, I read it quite recently. It’s not the main point of the story however, that is more the question of whether grey blobs can be Jews- William Tenn. himself a Jew, poking fun at Jewish ways.
