Left: Parliament of Poland (Sejm). Right: EJA Director Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
Poland’s Ban on Shechita Overturned
Poland’s constitutional court on Wednesday overturned a ban on the ritual slaughter of animals which had affected the Jewish and Muslim communities and eliminated a $620 million a year industry.
The court argued that the constitution guarantees the freedom of religious practice. It is a victory for Poland’s small Jewish and Muslim communities and for the local agricultural industry.
Shechita had been illegal since Jan. 1, 2013, due to a ban imposed after a campaign by animal rights activists.
Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the European Jewish Association, told the JTA that the ruling was a “relief” because it “prevents a dangerous precedent that would have affected all European Jewry.”
Cholent Mit Kugel
Oooh goodie! Looking forward to fresh lung for my kugel!
non-gender
Beware, groups like PETA will not stop until they do succed in obtaining a world wide ban
Finally
This is a Nes.
Since they all eat meat the only reason for the ban was purely anti semitic.
B H it was overturned!!!!
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@Finally: The ban was probably anti-muslim to start with, and only included kosher slaughter because it is is so similar that it was hard to write a law forbidding one but not the other.