Among the tenets most central to the practice of Judaism are kosher religious slaughter (shechita) and circumcision (brit milah). Both are based on our history throughout the millennia and have been ...
Kosher animals, as is well known, can be identified by two simanim (physical signs). They must chew their cud, and their hooves must be wholly cloven. (Vayikra chapter 11:2-3; Devarim chapter 14:6-8) ...
I am a shochet. A shochet is a trained and certified practitioner of kosher slaughter (shechita). I am also an individual who cares deeply about animal welfare. My interest led me to help co-found The ...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Jewish leaders in Europe say the European Union is not only banning some methods of kosher and halal slaughter, but telling Jews and Muslims how to practice their religions. That’s ...
Marine Le Pen, who is running on Sunday against President Emmanuel Macron in the second round of France’s presidential election, has always had to defend herself against accusations of antisemitism, ...
A European Parliament committee has approved a bill that would require meat that was not stunned before slaughter to be labeled as such. The amendment to the new European Union food labeling bill ...
(JNS) Two kosher certifying agencies and two meat processors have a big beef with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which suddenly changed the rules and made kosher slaughter a longer and more ...
The banning of Jewish ritual slaughter (shechita) today leaves Rumania’s 600,000 Jews without kosher meant and poultry, making virtually 90 per cent of Europe’s Jewish population of 9,000,000 who live ...
(JTA) Jewish leaders in Europe say the European Union is not only banning some methods of kosher and halal slaughter, but telling Jews and Muslims how to practice their religions. That’s according to ...