Boris Johnson Vows to Solve Northern Ireland’s Brexit-related Kosher Food Shortages – Jewish Exponent

By Cnaan Liphshiz

During a visit to a synagogue in Belfast, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised to fix bureaucratic complications connected to Brexit that have caused kosher food shortages in Northern Ireland.

There is no need for laborious checks on products uniquely important to the Jewish community being moved from Great Britain into Northern Ireland, Johnson said on Monday. We will see this situation resolved.

Northern Ireland has remained in the European Unions single market despite the fact that the United Kingdom, of which Northern Ireland is a part, pulled out of the bloc in 2020. This fact hascomplicated shipments of food and other products from the United Kingdom to Northern Ireland, resulting in kosher food shortages, among other issues.

The Jewish community of Manchester in England is the main kosher food supplier for the Belfast Jewish Community Synagogue, which services that community of a few hundred people.

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Boris Johnson Vows to Solve Northern Ireland's Brexit-related Kosher Food Shortages - Jewish Exponent