Benjamin Gehrlich, a Kosher butcher, is without his kosher privileges because he insisted on having a judgement satisfied on Yom Kippur. The Ellenville Hebrew Aid Society was so enraged at the sacrilege it voted to withdraw from Gehrlich the right to have his meat killed by the Rabbi.
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