Wrappers for butter marked “kosher” or “permitted” by the rabbinate” have been banned in Germany. Fifty-mark fines with prison sentences as alternatives were meted out to a number of Jewish grocery-store owners in Hamburg for selling butter the wrapper of which stated: “Permitted by the Hamburg rabbinate.” The wrappers were ordered confiscated.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
