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Kashruth Body Reorganized at Stormy Parley

February 15, 1935
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The Kashruth Association of Greater New York, which exercises a monopoly over religious supervision of poultry markets, was completely reorganized at a stormy convention which broke up in disorder at two o’clock yesterday morning in the Hotel Pennsylvania.

Rabbi Nachman H. Ebin was deposed from his positions of president and treasurer of the association. An “opposition faction” led by Rabbis Israel Dushowitz and Joseph C. Lookstein, declaring it had the support of Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, the Mayor’s mediator in poultry affairs, gained almost unanimous support of the 300 members for a reorganization program abolishing the offices of president and chairman of the board of directors.

A salient point in the program provided that directors of the association may not be paid and that persons employed for pay are ineligible for directorships.

The plan also set up a board of directors comprising twenty-one rabbis and five laymen and a general kashruth committee of seventy rabbis and fifty laymen.

The twenty-one rabbis elected to the board of directors are:

I. Idelson, I. Bemel, I. Bunin, A. D. Burok, A. Glantz, Wolf Gold, G. Goldstein, A. Gartenhaus, I. Dachawitz, Israel Dushwitz, A. I. Zalmanowitz, B. M. Thomashev, N. Telushkin, I. C. Lookstein, L. Levin, A. Meyerowitz, Nachman H. Ebin, A. Predmesky, M. A. Kaplan, M. Rosen and Z. Reichman.

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