The bill to restrict kosher slaughtering, now before the Polish Senate, was defended in a letter made public by the Polish Embassy in reply to a communication from Cyrus Adler, president of the American Jewish Committee, in which he expressed “anxiety” over the measure.
The letter, signed by Wladyslaw Sokolowski, charge d’affaires of the Embassy, declared that the Government’s attitude to the bill would remain unchanged.
Holding the bill was based on “equality and tolerance,” the letter stated it aimed to “adjust the abnormal conditions existing in the Polish cattle and meat industry, which have a relation to the entire economic situation.”
Mr. Sokolewski said that after a delegation of rabbis had protested against the bill in its original form, an amendment was added providing that religious communities might maintain their own slaughterhouses. He added that existing conditions gave rise to extortion.
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