Warsaw – While industrial-scale ritual slaughter has ceased in Poland since being outlawed in the country’s parliament, the Sejm, the Jewish community is still practicing shechita, its chief rabbi told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.
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American-born Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich defended continuing shechita as usual, saying that the Jewish community has spoken with several top constitutional lawyers who believe that it “is already legal.” The Jewish community “did a big shechita” a week-and-a-half ago, Schudrich said.
“I have no hesitation to do shechita. When it becomes necessary we certainly will do shechita [again] because I believe it’s legal.”
Ritual slaughter officially ceased in Poland in January, following a 2012 decision by Poland’s constitutional court that exempting religious Muslims and Jews from a law requiring that animals be stunned before slaughter was “unconstitutional.”
A government-sponsored bill that would establish such an exception in the law was voted down in a vote of 222 to 178 in the Sejm last Friday.
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I was in Poland two weeks ago & I have NEVER encountered such antisemitism, n
And the purpose of the Rabbi saying this publicly is what exactly?
better all jews should leave europe now!
The 1997 Act on the Relation of the State to the Jewish Communities in Poland, allows shechita to be performed in accordance with the needs of the local Jewish community. It is the ‘industrial-scale ritual slaughter’ for export which has been ruled illegal.
Kol hakavod to rabbi schudrich he is willing to risk the anger and even arrest by the anti semites in order to serve his community.