A kosher bread line in a city in Belarus caused a string of anti-Semitic newspaper articles. An editorial in the Mogilev Register, a local daily, warned those of the Russian Orthodox faith to keep away from kosher “products in the same way they keep away from idol sacrifice.” It also claimed that the bakery’s management, in its drive for profit, is turning the city into a Jewish community. An article in the Evening Mogilev, another daily, said the act of making something kosher is “sacrilegious and anti-Christian.”
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