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State of Tennessee Gets Kosher Food Law

February 18, 1929
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A Kosher food bill was unanimously passed in its final reading from the floor of the Tennessee state legislature yesterday. The bill is entitled “an act to regulate the sale and offering for sale not only of Kosher meat and meat preparations, but all Kosher food in general.” The purpose of the bill is to prohibit false representation and misrepresentation in the sale of Kosher food products, to provide penalties for violation thereof and to define the word Kosher in conformity with the Orthodox Jewish religious requirements.

The adoption of the bill was brought about through the initiative of Rabbi Elijah D. Stampfer, Rabbi of the Baron Hirsch Congregation here and president of the United Jewish Orthodox Community.

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