NY kosher restaurateur says rabbis forcing him out because of non-Jewish wife
Dimitry Berezovskiy, owner of the Riverdale K Grill House, claims in lawsuit that landlord and local rabbinical council spreading rumors to drive him out of business
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The owner of a high end, glatt kosher restaurant claimed in a lawsuit that local rabbis are forcing him out of the kosher community because his wife is not Jewish.
Dimitry Berezovskiy, owner of the Riverdale K Grill House, in a lawsuit filed in Bronx Supreme Court, alleges that his landlord Moses Marx and the rabbinical council of Riverdale spread rumors that he lost his kashrut certification in order to drive him out of business, the New York Post reported.
Local rabbinical council member Rabbi Asher Bush told the Post that the allegations were “a fabrication.”
Berezovskiy opened the restaurant in 2015, determined to bring quality kosher dining to Riverdale, the Riverdale Press reported in November. The article noted that he was trying to sell the restaurant due to struggles to keep it afloat under the handicap of being certified glatt kosher.
The Riverdale K Grill House is up for sale. Here's why. https://t.co/t4oq6PxKbZ pic.twitter.com/CQEmZcN7iM
— The Riverdale Press (@riverdalepress) November 3, 2017
He told the Riverdale Press in November that the restrictions imposed by the local rabbinical council limiting what he can and cannot sell without losing his kosher certificate were making it difficult to compete with other neighborhood restaurants.
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