No attempt will be made to interfere in the killing of cattle in accordance with the Jewish ritual, the Minister of the Interior yesterday informed a group of leading Warsaw rabbis who interviewed him. He assured the delegation that it would be consulted on matters affecting schechita and that its decision would be final.
The delegation called attention of the Minister to the action of the Warsaw municipal authorities in charge of the abattoir in discharging qualified shochtim, ritual slaughterers, placed there by the rabbinate. They also pointed out that the present situation might compel them to forbid Orthodox Jews to use meat prepared at the municipal slaughter houses and that this step would involve heavy losses for Polish peasantry.
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