The American Jewish Committee blasted Poland’s parliament for rejecting a bill that would allow kosher slaughter. “We urge Poland’s legislative and judicial authorities to move expeditiously to ...

A court in the Polish city of Bialystok has asked the Polish Constitutional Tribunal to rule on whether the country’s ban on ritual slaughter is compliant with the constitutional freedom of religion.

(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 ...

Even if you eat kosher meat, you probably haven’t seen a kosher animal slaughter first-hand. The Jewish Initiative for Animals organizes public demonstrations of the process to get eaters thinking ...

That tells you what food sources are kosher or not kosher. But then the kosher laws go a step further. In order to be kosher, the food (permitted food) must be prepared in a kosher manner. First, any ...

People for the Equal Treatment of Animals, the radical vegetarian group that in an advertising campaign once compared the slaughtering of chickens to the murder of Holocaust victims, is taking aim at ...

When I was in my early twenties, I met a rabbi who worked as a kosher slaughterer. He was an old-fashioned, pious man who had grown up in Poland and escaped to the U.S. shortly before the Holocaust.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is to draft new laws so that it does not have to stop slaughterhouses from producing kosher meat, a prospect that has angered the Jewish community in the country where Nazi ...

Dr. Maya Shetreat-Klein is a pediatric neurologist and expert in some of the direct healthy benefits of pasture raised meat. In 2008, she started Mitzvah Meat and Mindful Meat, a co-op bringing local, ...

The Muslim custom of killing sheep at temporary slaughterhouses jeopardizes all ritual slaughter in Belgium, a Cabinet minister there warned. A workshop in Berkeley, Calif., on kosher slaughter — ...