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Basil’s Owner Opens “Bakerie”

Despite the heated fallout at Basil restaurant, the OK agency is certifying Danny Branover's new bakery venture in Crown Heights. Full Story, Photos

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Jewish employees
July 18, 2017 1:01 pm

#44 I’ve asked when I’ve been in and Half of the employees at this bakery are Jewish. Some are very religious, some less so, but Jews non the less . For you To say there are no Jews working there shows your personal bias without having any information or actual knowledge to back it up.

Jump off the high horse
July 16, 2017 10:19 pm

The point of pas yisroel is to keep jews and gentiles from becoming too intimate in a fashion which may lead to intermarriage.

It is fine to dine with a business acquaintance or others with whom a professional relationship exists.

A Jew who struggles with a Yetzer Hara different to your’s can still eat together with you.

Good but expensive
July 16, 2017 10:57 am

Bought a loaf of spelt bread with golden raisins, but it costs a whopping $10!

And yes — there should be Jewish workers who understand our terminology…..

learn from shloimy klein
July 13, 2017 6:13 pm

perhaps my little taking a stand won’t mean anything to branover
but my stand is, you hire Jews to work for you and i use your restaurant(s). it’s as simple as that. i know many who feel this way. give jobs to Jews like mistergreens does!

good luck!! beautiful store and product!
July 11, 2017 10:52 pm

high end gourmet bakery with exotic spreads and cheeses.

high time for such a place in the glatt kosher world.

Lots of luck, Mr. Branover!!

Would be nice if people would think before they right
July 11, 2017 9:25 pm

Hasogas gvul has very specific parameters. One of them is that the two establishments have to be selling the same product. As a long time customer at Albany bakery I have never once seen artisanal or specialty breads on their shelves. We all know they sell the usual bread products that the frum community consumes. From the looks of this new place, they are selling a completely different line of breads. Not the same product. Not hasogas gvul.

nutella
July 11, 2017 9:20 pm

looks like they came up with cholov yisroel homemade Nutella? if so then I am in!

sad....
July 11, 2017 9:08 pm

To 27
Unfortunately that’s what it boils down to.
The negative statements are made by a segment of unfortunate misguided residents of the surrounding area…who as a result of minimal if any education…religious as well as secular …consonant with a rather questionable
upbringing….generally lacking ability to interact Jewish or gentile
Its painful to know who represents the majority
. (Btw you wouldn’t want to mingle with them anyway…

Hahaha
July 11, 2017 4:57 pm

Nothing wrong with mingling. He was just saying that his intention is to make a good, upscale restaurant that our lesser affiliated brethren might enjoy. He didn’t say non-Jews, just Jews who might otherwise go to a treife restaurant r”l. Great. I personally know of families that are more secular that love coming to CH to eat at Basil. I myself do not eat there because they are always playing goyishe music, but that’s my business. The truth is that if one jew comes to the shchuneh to eat at basil or at this fancy bakery and ends up laying… Read more »

Love it!
July 11, 2017 4:30 pm

What a fantastic addition to CH.

I expected the naresh immature comments obviously there are many that just don’t have a job or a life so anything to comment or negate comes naturally, waiting for any “possible” controversy to post his/her silly thoughts.

Thanks for posting this COL – you guys rock!

So Sad!
July 11, 2017 3:42 pm

As a non religious Jew, I was under the crazy assumption that being Jewish meant that you are JEWISH. It is very sad that those people who have commented here feel that they can not mingle with anyone that is not as religious as them or that are not Jewish. This is what gives so many Jews the wrong name that we are non-accepting of non-Jews. We don’t live in a country of society that allows for you to only MINGLE with Jews. If what you are all saying is true that you can not mingle with non-Jews, I feel… Read more »

Money
July 11, 2017 1:30 pm

$3.50 for a muffin or a cookie is a lot of money.

israel
July 11, 2017 1:02 pm

On each cookie you will have to take a mortgage
Looks nice and good and you will pay for it

to #23
July 11, 2017 11:26 am

it’s amazing how people who have no idea what they are talking about (like you) make comments
I know exactly what happened with basil and the OK was %100 right for removing their certification.
you should do some research and think just a little bit before you make accusations.
I for one will eat in the bakery only if it has a good hechsher like OK

Hasogas gvul?
July 11, 2017 11:13 am

Didn’t basil just have a major issue with calabria? Now they have no issue opening a bakery 2 blocks from Albany bakery????

People love to criticize
July 11, 2017 8:08 am

bravo! WHEN YOU OPENED BASIL YOU HAD SO MUCH FLAK FOR BEING’ FIRST’ TO BREAK THE MOLD. don’t worry. soon you’ll be the store to follow !

You got it wrong, #23
July 11, 2017 4:50 am

The OK revoked its supervision because a non-Jewish landscaper went into the kitchen to plug in his electrical equipment… on Shabbos. There was no one there to make sure he didn’t heat up his McDonalds meal in one of the ovens, or re-fry his Big Mac on a frying pan. THAT is fact. What I don’t know is the conditions (if any) for the OK to reinstate the hashgacha. The point is, the OK was not disputing the Kashrus of Basil or its ownership UNTIL they found out the goy had unsupervised access to the kitchen. That changes everything. So… Read more »

Why so expensive?
July 11, 2017 3:03 am

$3.50 for a muffin? Why? $2.50 wouldn’t pay the bills?

wow so many jealous haters
July 11, 2017 2:49 am

i don’t have parnosa yet i wish you much hatzlocha!

Moshe Kapoyer
July 11, 2017 12:33 am

Danny told me personally in regards to his Basil restaurant that he wants Jew and Gentile to mingle and break bread together. This is not a new Shita of his, it I his long established claim to fame. I told him my opinion but he was adamant about it. Since then What purpose does this serve.

Triggered
July 10, 2017 10:35 pm

Apparently the word “mingle” it’s a major trigger word for a lot of people

Did you not read the last paragraph?
July 10, 2017 10:25 pm

To Comments: #5 #6 #9 #14 #18
“Unfortunately many have misconstrued my words in the past,” Branover said. “My goal is to introduce the beauty of Kosher to many Jews who otherwise would not try it,” he said.

Mingling who with whom
July 10, 2017 10:19 pm

… while pas yisroel was established to avoid mingling with AKUM.. he stared this was to bring those who eat kosher and those who don’t…
Very different…

To # 6
July 10, 2017 9:38 pm

Moreh Nevuchim was written for all time, forever, maybe especially for our present era. Just because you can’t understand or appreciate it is no excuse. Sorry, Kol Tov, & Moshiach Now, it’s time!

Wow!
July 10, 2017 6:44 pm

So many readers will fail reading comprehension
Everyone is so hung up on the mingling part that they miss the point
I don’t condone operating without a kosher supervision but I do believe in this case the OK overreached it’s authority
If you asked me personally, I would patronize the restaurant trusting the kashrus completely regardless of the OK pulling their supervision

to 15
July 10, 2017 6:31 pm

everyone has their own opinions whether you like it or not.
So you can’t say that people are missing the point.
Majority is using the mingle word. Look how many times you have written it!

What time do they close
July 10, 2017 6:27 pm

Open late??? I hope

ignorance
July 10, 2017 6:20 pm

#19- the same bread CANNOT be found closer, unless you don’t keep kosher, which i assume you don’t. but if you have kosher keeping friends and family, there is no reason they shouldn’t be able to enjoy the same style and quality of food that is so easy for you to come by, and that you are clearly used to. the rest of you-know that non jews and irreligious jews read this website and these comments. please be aware. be mindful, as well, that not only are these comments embarrassing, they are ignorant and crass and untrue. Realize that Hashem… Read more »

10 points to the OK!
July 10, 2017 6:19 pm

Rabbi Kalman Weinfeld from the OK Kosher – great job.

Standing strong to Kashrus standards!

Mingle
July 10, 2017 5:56 pm

Bad choice of words
Very bad choice of words
Nobody cares if it’s for everyone , and many actually like it like that
But the word mingling is just the wrong word

Joe
July 10, 2017 5:47 pm

BS”D Who cares, CH has become the tyva center of Brooklyn

I went today and bought
July 10, 2017 5:42 pm

Grav Lox and it was amazing !!!!!!

Pas Palter
July 10, 2017 5:37 pm

Regarding pas palter their is not Inyan of the issue of intermingling so learn your Halacha before you judge

well
July 10, 2017 5:30 pm

everyone said it already, but that is a terrible comment (the last paragraph of the article) whether out of ignorance or not.
More concerning than the specifics is such a lateral outlook to serious things in Yiddishkeit

I won't go that far.
July 10, 2017 5:25 pm

Same bread can be find closer.

Missing the point
July 10, 2017 5:19 pm

I believe the whole point is not interfaith mingling, however s chance to mingle with other unaffiliated Jews. Perhaps a chance to bring them closer to yiddishkeit?

Joe D
July 10, 2017 5:04 pm

For all of those who want a nice trendy modern cafe’ without all of this politics. Checkout dean st cafe. Mr Mutchkin did a great job.

The whole mingle thing
July 10, 2017 4:50 pm

Why is everyone getting so hung up about the “mingle” word. Pad yisroel is to keep Jews and *non Jews* from mingling. All he said was people who keep kosher and people who don’t keep kosher. So either you missed that point or you’re clearly way too self-proclaimed-holy to be eating out anyway.

I didn't get this
July 10, 2017 4:43 pm

With or without a hechsher, Branover said in the past that his goal is to bring together people who eat kosher and those who don’t. “They don’t mingle too much and why, really, not?” he asked. “What better way than to break bread?
Pas yisroel was created just to avoid this

To num. 5
July 10, 2017 4:39 pm

Open up the book that teaches us about hasogas gevul, and you’ll see that this is not considered hasogas gevul #learn some shulchan aruch

Chabad house
July 10, 2017 4:34 pm

Hey it could be a chabad house for 7 mitzvot bnei noach

"Not to mingle"
July 10, 2017 4:32 pm

Guys common live in the times, moreh nevuchim was written so many years ago. Times have changed

"They don't mingle to much and why?"
July 10, 2017 4:22 pm

Check out rambam moreh nevuchim. The hole point of kosher is not to mingle with gentiles

Halacha
July 10, 2017 4:20 pm

Isn’t the whole point of pas Yisroel to prevent mingling?

Hasogas gevul?
July 10, 2017 4:07 pm

Isnt this hasogas gevul on all the other bakeries in crown heights?

352 Albany Avenue and Sterling Place,
July 10, 2017 4:02 pm

NOT to be mixed up with Sterling st.

this is on the other side of EP – just like basil

M

Bakerie
July 10, 2017 3:55 pm

Would be nice to see Jews working there

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