In addition to the Three Weeks shindig we noted here, Ohel threw a BBQ bash during the Nine Days.
Here's a recent letter to the editor published in Hamodia with Ohel CEO David Mandel's response.
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It seems odd that the way that community observes some halachos and minhagim punctiliously, while stretching others -- to be charitable, (no, I couldn't resist the pun) -- beyond recognition.
Mandel forgot to mention that in addition to Nine Days BBQ's, Ohel's Mara D'asra Shlita also permits tax fraud, gezel akum, and infringing intellectual property.
Update: For those who think the line above is just snark, it isn't. Ohel's Mara D'Asra is on public record as permitting the above mentioned.