At an impressive mass meeting in the presence of all the rabbis belonging to the Rabbinical Council of Toronto, the president, Rabbi J. L. Graubart, proclaimed an “Easur” on all meats in Toronto, declaring that no Jews shall buy meat at present sold in the Jewish butcher shops in the city.
This proclamation is the result of the controversy between Jewish meat wholesalers and the Kehilla of Toronto. The former locked out nineteen shochtim and refused the supervision of Kehilla and rabbis in their slaughterhouses. The wholesalers at present employ three shochtim outside Toronto in place of the nineteen formerly employed.
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