Guardian writer Zoe Williams rewrites Jewish customs

Anyone else notice the gaffe in the Guardian magazine yesterday? According to Zoe Williams the Jewish commandment that you should separate milk and meat is these days “one of those commandments to which religious people allude to but take no notice of”. I wonder where she got that idea from? Are there no longer any religious Jews, are they secretly mixing milk and meat (and only Zoe knows about it), or have religious Jews become hypocrites?

So where did Zoe get the idea from that Jews no longer keep the commandments? Her friends and associates, no doubt, gave her the idea that Jewish law is not important ‘any more’. And since she lives in an increasingly secular society (only 7% of Christians attend church according to a BBC news report, and I don’t suppose Jews are much different) she’d have every reason to believe ignoring Jewish law was common among the observant too – surely a contradiction in terms – and certainly every reason to want to believe this silly religion nonsense was a thing of the past, even though I don’t see much evidence of that in NW London where I live.
And since Zoe writes for the Guardian she’ll be used to the idea that if the Guardian believes something – well, everyone else believes it too.
Personally I don't eat meat at all Zoe, but if I did, you can be sure I'd wait at least one hour before milky tea touched my lips. Aparently that minchag derives from a small village in Surrey somewhere.