The Joint Committee for the Protection of Shechita, an organization composed of all Orthodox rabbinical and lay groups in New York, protested to the three English-language dailies in New York today against anti-kosher-slaughter advertisements carried by those newspapers. According to the committee, some of the advertisements carried statements and illustrations that were “outright fabrications,” contending falsely, among other things, that animals slaughtered in accordance with Jewish ritual are “skinned alive.”
The protests were made, by mail and in person, to the publishers of The New York Times, The World Journal Tribune and The New York Post. The disputed advertisements had been placed in the New York dailies by the “Committee for Humane Legislation” which the Orthodox groups called “an extremist group” which seeks to destroy Jewish ritual slaughter. The Orthodox joint committee demanded that the newspapers apologize for running those advertisements, pledge to print no more notices of that type, and give Orthodox Jewry the opportunity to explain the truth about kosher slaughter.
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