The recently enacted bill prohibiting schechita (Jewish method of slaughtering) will go into effect October 1 according to an official announcement today by the Bavarian government. The announcement points out that in carrying out the terms of the ordinance ritual slaughtering will be permitted if the animal is completely stunned before it is killed.
The Bavarian anti-schechita law has been the subject of much criticism by German Jews and the matter was called to the attention of the German ambassador in Washington by Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the American Jewish Committee. In a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Baron von Prittwitz, the German envoy in the United States, had pointed out that the new German penal code under consideration contained a provision expressly declaring that the practices of schechita is not punishable.
The German minister of state also wrote a letter to the German minister of the interior calling his attention to the letter of Dr. Adler and asked that the minister of the interior “inform the governments of the various German states of the ill-feeling” that would ensue if the German states proceeded with their announced intention of passing anti-schechita legislation.
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