session to discuss the project at length. The session will also discuss the situation which has developed as a result of the municipalities taking over the entire schechita system of ritual slaughtering of animals, which was hitherto under Jewish supervision.
By the new tax project every Jew would pay a special tax for the Jewish community amounting to between fifteen and thirty per cent of his present general income tax.
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