Agitation against Jewish ritual slaughter of cattle is continuing in Britain and there is a growing advocacy in non-Jewish circles of a system of stunning the animals before slaughter, Elsley Zeitlin, chairman of the schechita committee of the Board of Deputies, reported to a meeting of the Board yesterday.
Mr. Zeitlin reported too that the ecclesiastical authorities of the Board had decided that stunning was contrary to Jewish ritual law. This decision, he pointed out, had been communicated to the rabbinate in Israel and other countries, all of whom had agreed with the view of the Board’s authorities.
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