Thank you for inviting me to anything!!!

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Wow!!! I must tell you, we don't get invited out too often. The short answer is "YES." You sound like a nice Jewish girl and I'm sure you wouldn't serve anything you don't think is Kosher. Are you in Miami? I am ! The long answer is: I eat from any Jew who tells me that it is kosher. I have never had any problems. We have been invited to dinner and were served an entire meal cooked on a BBQ. People know what is in their kitchens. I don't believe that a Jewish soul is capable of INTENTIONALLY feeding another Jew whom they believe to be a Yirat Shamayim taref. Of course EVERYONE makes mistakes (good thing establishments under supervision don't!!) and some people don't know, but my experience has been that when someone doesn't know, they will ask. I find a way to eat (if invited) something from every Jewish home that I visit, even if the host says "I don't keep kosher, but I want to offer you something". It is amazing how many people will start (or return) to keep kosher after you find a way to eat with them, something from their home. Honestly, I wouldn't even think to question a dish that an obviously Shomer Shabbat Jew brought to the table. Ten years ago we lived on a wonderful street in a Jewish neighbourhood where everyone was always sending their "best" up and down the street. The children ran in and out of all the houses and it was great, but things changed, seemingly overnight. One lady had a baby and her husband answered the door and refused a casserole from a Sephardic Rabbi (a hobbiest gourmet chef) because he didn't have two ovens! Then no one would eat from the lady who wore pants, then not from a Sephardic home, then not if you didn't have two sinks and so on and so on and so on. Before we knew it, no one would eat from anyone and if you wanted to participate in Shalach Manot you had to only send packaged stuff. Bikur Holim stopped accepting homemade food and people were asked only for money for the caterer. Interestingly enough, as a complete side observation, when everyone was eating from each other's homes, the Jewish children only played with Jewish kids and politely ignored the Gentile children (black and Hispanic). Shortly after this nonsense started with "no one's kashrut being acceptable", I noticed that ALL of the Jewish children, modern, yeshivishe, Lubavitch, peyos down to their pipiks, Israelis, all of the children started to play outside in the streets with the non Jews. I did mention this to a few parents and they thought I was terrible for saying so, a real racist, that is until a teenage Hispanic boy molested a ten year old Jewish boy, but that is another story. A side benefit of Kashrut is that it keeps us all together. I really appreciate the Shabbat invitation. I need to bring along my (BIH) 8 children though because they NEVER miss a meal, definitely not on Shabbat. Also there is my husband. He likes to eat three times a day too. He has a lot of serious food allergies though so he has to watch what he eats. Anyway, chicken and rice is usually pretty safe, and if you don't eat meat it is okay too, we eat fish. Anyway, thank you VERY much for the invite, even my mother isn't up to having us for Shabbat dinner (or any other meal) anymore. Please let me know what I can bring (other than drop cloths).............. you'll eat from MY house????? I'm used to baking for a crowd so its no trouble at all. By the way, we still only have one stove/oven/sink which in most neighbourhoods means we're not "kosher". Thank you again, I really do appreciate the invite and look forward to meeting you!!!. Renee ----smile----