The orthodox rabbis and the Vaad Hakashruth (board supervising sale and manufacture of kosher products) have been restrained and enjoined, and consequently are not permitted to issue a prohibitory decree against unsupervised alleged kosher slaughter houses, by a decree handed down today by Homer G. Powell, chief judge of the Court of Common Pleas, who some time ago ruled in the Jewish Center case that civil courts in Ohio have no jurisdiction over ecclesiastical matters.
The decision was given on an application for a temporary restraining order in a suit brought by an alleged kosher meat wholesaler, Benjamin Cohen, representing Swift & Co. of Cleveland. The plaintiff has been opposed to the Vaad Hakashruth for several years, at all times refusing to recognize its authority and that of the rabbis affiliated with it. In an attempt to smash it he began to undersell alleged kosher meat.
Several weeks ago, the Orthodox rabbis affiliated with the Vaad Hakashruth issued a prohibitory order against the Jewish ritual slaughterers affiliated with Swift & Co. To overcome this order, an agent for the wholesaler engaged a former slaughterer, himself under a ban from the rabbis, and who proclaimed himself a rabbi without authorization, declared that the ban of the rabbis was contrary to Jewish law. Whereupon the banned slaughterers
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