The kosher meat situation throughout Poland became more critical today as municipalities applied with severity provisions of the new law limiting the practice of shechita, Jewish ritual method of slaughtering animals.
In Warsaw, the municipal administration cut in half the original quota set by announcing that for January only 950, 000 kilograms gross of livestock could be slaughtered for kosher meat.
The situation here was further aggravated by the fact that to date only 95 Jewish butchers have received licenses to handle kosher meat, 400 still remaining unlicensed.
In many cities, the Jewish population remained entirely without meat prepared in the ancient ritual way, since the authorities were either slow in issuing licenses to butchers or failed to issue them at all. Only 20 of the 250 Jewish butchers in Lwow, industrial center with a large Jewish population, have so far received the requisite permits. In Radom, none of the Jewish butchers have yet been licensed.
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