Jews throughout Poland launched an 18-day meatless period today designed as a protest against a measure before Parliament that would forbid shechita, Jewish ritual method of slaughtering animals for human consumption, by the end of 1942. The bill, which would supplant a two-year-old law under which the practice is partially proscribed, has already been passed by a parliamentary committee.
Obeying an order issued by a special conference of 500 rabbis, all Jewish meat shops closed their doors this afternoon, while Jewish abattoirs shut down last night. Jewish newspapers, which under administrative pressure have been prohibited from publishing appeals for support of the protest, are daily printing meatless menus for Jewish housewives.
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