At a meeting of the General Committee of the Kashruth Association of Greater New York, the decision of the Board of Directors was approved, that henceforth all private supervision of kosher butcher shops would be abolished and all butchers selling kosher meat would be placed under the supervision of the Kashruth Association of Greater New York, representing the United Rabbinate of Greater New York.
Samuel Rottenberg, president of the Kashruth Association, who presided, stated that this was the first time that a comprehensive city wide plan for a centralized supervision of Kashruth was developed.
The Kashruth Association is a development of a committee appointed by Mayor Walker last year to make a study of the entire problem and make recommendations of how to improve the enforcement of the Kosher Law, now on the Statute Books in the State of New York.
The first step in the program will be to create order in the sale of Kosher meats among butchers and eliminate fraud and misrepresentation, and that honesty in Kashruth should prevail.
The Kashruth Association will commence to issue its Certificates on December 1st and all rabbis will discontinue their personal supervision by January 1, 1933.
The Kashruth Association consists of two hundred and four leading rabbis of this city and one hundred prominent, outstanding Jewish laymen.
Rabbi M. S. Margolies, dean of the Orthodox Rabbinate of this country, is Honorary President. The other officers are : Samuel Rottenberg, president; Rabbi M. Rosen and Rabbi S. S. Soloveitchik, vice-presidents; Harry Fischel, treasurer; Abraham Levy, secretary.
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