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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

ritual slaughter

Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the "kapparot" ceremony on October 3, 2022, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 3, 2022, 5:30 pm
Environment minister urges charity instead of ‘kapparot’ for Yom Kippur
Tamar Zandberg says practice of swinging live chicken around one’s head to absolve sin causes suffering, suggests continuing the tradition by instead giving money
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Staff work on the production line of Kosher poultry meat in a Kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on Jan. 15, 2021 (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
April 15, 2022, 3:03 pm
Fears Le Pen could ban ritual slaughter unite French Jews, Muslims
Far-right presidential candidate says animals should be stunned to reduce suffering, which is incompatible with kosher and halal rules
By John Leicester
Rabbis examine the production line at Quality Poultry KFT in Csengele, Hungary, February 2017. (Zsolt Demecs/ via JTA)
June 29, 2021, 4:16 pm
An EU ruling on kosher slaughter tells rabbis how to go about their business
The decision suggests Jews and Muslims find a way to make electronic stunning of animals consistent with religious law — despite the fact that it’s prohibited
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Kosher slaughterers arrive in Hungary on April 20, 2020. (Courtesy EMIH/ Nezer Hakashrut)
May 6, 2020, 4:13 pm
Hungary okays pre-screening to let in slaughterers, avert kosher meat shortage
Community expects to process a million chickens by year’s end, supply other European Jewish centers, as government allows vetted staff from Israel, Belgium to skip quarantine
By Yaakov Schwartz
Illustrative image of a calf in a pen ahead of slaughter. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images via JTA)
May 15, 2019, 8:45 am
US anti-Semitism envoy: Europe’s kosher meat bans ‘forced expulsion’ for Jews
Elan Carr tells rabbis’ conference that the prohibition on Jewish method of ritual slaughter of animals is ‘intolerable’
By JTA
Illustrative: Members of the Belgian Jewish community seen walking on the streets in the Jewish quarter in Antwerp, Belgium, August 7, 2014. (Johanna Geron/FLASH90)
December 31, 2018, 1:22 pm
Kosher slaughter ends in northern Belgium, threatening supplies to Europe
Following ruling last year, animals must be stunned before they are killed, a measure that precludes traditional Jewish butchering method
By Agencies
Illustrative: A ritually slaughtered lamb being delivered to a halal butcher shop in The Hague, Netherlands, December 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
May 29, 2018, 3:13 pm
Muslim animal slaughter must occur in approved abattoirs: EU court
European Court of Justice upholds 2014 ban by Belgian region against temporary slaughterhouses set up to cope with demand during Muslim feast of sacrifice
By AFP
A consumer buys meat in Warsaw, Poland, Friday July 9, 2004. After Poland joined the European Union on May 1st, food prices increased in the country, with the sharpest rise, 21.7 percent, for meat.(AP/Alik Keplicz)
February 25, 2018, 9:23 am
Polish lawmaker backs Jews fighting proposed ritual slaughter ban
As the government prepares to vote on animal-rights legislation to prohibit kosher and halal slaughter, opposition lawmaker Michal Kaminski says country is ‘making a mistake’
By Yaakov Schwartz
Nissim Guedj unpacking merchandise at a kosher meat shop in Amsterdam, October 26, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
December 1, 2017, 1:19 pm
Why kosher butchers in Western Europe are preparing to close shop
Legislation targeting Muslims along with heavy Jewish emigration call into question the sustainability of ritually slaughtered meat on the continent
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Footage of alleged animal cruelty in a Haifa slaughterhouse broadcast on September 27, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2)
September 28, 2017, 10:31 pm
Haifa slaughterhouse shut down after report on animal abuse
Agriculture Ministry opens investigation following Channel 2 exposé showing workers poking, hitting, electrocuting cows and sheep
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image of a man preparing meat at a kosher slaughterhouse (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
August 16, 2017, 6:19 pm
Swiss lawmakers to vote on banning import of kosher, halal meat
Jewish leader in Switzerland says legislation will be ‘a massive limitation on the religious freedoms of Jews’ if passed
By JTA
Illustrative photo of cows at a livestock farm (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
May 23, 2017, 12:50 am
As Israel bans ‘shackle and hoist’ slaughter, activists ask: What about the US?
No more import of inhumanely slaughtered meat to the Holy Land, but as long as the cruel practice continues, concerns remain for Diaspora Jews
By Yaakov Schwartz
Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher slaughtering a chicken. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 18, 2017, 9:49 am
Belgium’s Wallonia region bans ritual slaughter
Spokesman for European Jewish group says new law sends message to Jews: ‘We don’t really respect you or your practices’
By AFP
Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man participating in a kapparot ritual, in which a chicken is swung over one's head in the belief that one transfers the sins from the past year into the chicken. (Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)
May 17, 2017, 11:39 am
Lawsuit over synagogue’s chicken slaughter dismissed
California Chabad charging a fee for performing High Holiday ‘kapparot’ atonement ritual is ruled not a for-profit activity
By AP
Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia speaks to journalists on June 22, 2014, in Paris. (AFP/Fred Dufor)
May 10, 2017, 11:41 am
French chief rabbi urges working with Muslims against nationalists
Jewish and Muslim leaders coordinating opposition to European legislation banning ritual slaughter of animals, public religious symbols
By Stuart Winer
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