No doubt influenced by the Nazi Party in its increasingly nasty neighbor Germany, Poland made a decree to ban ritual slaughter that went into effect today. The slaughter of animals in a humane and religiously proscribed way has been a part of Jewish religious and dietary customs since the days of Moses. In fact, it may have been before that.
Shechita is a rite that a man spends years training to be proficient at. Without a shochet to prepare kosher meat, many Polish Jews, particularly Hasidic and Orthodox Jews, will be malnourished since they will not eat non-Kosher meat.
This also destroys the economic prospects of many Jewish men and their families.
Monday, January 1, 2007
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