A conference of seventy rabbis and “wonder rabbis,” the mystic leaders of the Chassidic Jews, today adopted by a majority vote a resolution favoring proclamation of a fast day next Thursday in protest against a Parliament bill for banning Jewish ritual slaughtering. They also supported proclamation of a world-wide four-week mourning period during which Jews could eat no meat or hold celebrations.
The resolution, adopted just before debate on the bill began in the Sejm (Parliament), expressed the dismay of the Polish Jews at the proposal as an “attack on the Jewish religion.” The bill, introduced by Deputy Janina Prystor, wife of the President of the Senate, would enforce stunning before the slaughter of animals in contravention to the Jewish code.
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