As part of its ongoing campaign to defile anything and everything holy, the new Israeli government has taken aim at the kashrus status quo that has prevailed unchallenged in the country for almost 40 years. Back in July 1983, in response to numerous instances of bogus and baseless claims of kashrus, the Knesset passed the Law of Kashrut Misrepresentation, which requires the identification or advertisement of food or an eatery as kosher to be backed up by kosher supervision. The law’s small print invests the local rabbinates with the exclusive authority to grant this supervision, and a subsequent amendment enshrines the national rabbinate as the sole arbiter of the kosher status of imported products. The law also created an enforcement division that issues fines and other penalties to offenders.