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Close-up of three kosher steaks. Credit: BublikHaus/Shutterstock.

Will the war on kashrut merge with the war on meat?

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Many Americans spent their Fourth of July holiday at barbecues with family and friends. For observant Jews, that meant that plenty of kosher hot dogs and hamburgers were grilled and consumed as the country’s...
A view of a knife used for kosher slaughter by Rabbi Yitzchak Eliezer Yakav at his home in Jerusalem Jerusalem on June 12, 2011. Photo by Kobi Gideon/Flash90.

Netanyahu urges European leaders to block kosher slaughter ban

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written to a number of European leaders, asking that they allow kosher slaughter to continue in their countries. The letter went out to the leaders of Poland, Finland, Portugal,...
The Sejm, or lower house of the bicameral parliament of Poland in 2014. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Polish Senate votes to delay bill that would ban exports of kosher meat

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The Polish Senate voted on Wednesday to postpone provisions to a controversial animal-rights bill banning the export of kosher meat until 2025. Last month, the Sejm, the Polish parliament’s lower house, passed the bill. But...
Shechita (kosher slaughter) of a chicken. Credit: Yofial via Wikimedia Commons.

European Jewish group sounds alarm over Polish bill banning kosher-meat exports

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Europe’s largest Jewish umbrella organization expressed alarm on Thursday over an animal-welfare bill in Poland that would ban exports of kosher meat. “This draft law is of deep, deep, concern to European Jewry. It puts...