the bill to restrict kosher slaughtering moved a step nearer final adoption today when it received the approval of a Senate committee and was sent onto the floor for a vote. The Sejm (lower House) adopted the proposal last Friday.
The committee’s approval of the measure followed an appeal from a conference of prominent rabbis to the Senate to reject the proposal.
The bill, which was introduced by Deputy Janina Prystor, wife of the Senate’s president, has been amended at the Government’s behest to provide for sufficient kosher slaughtering to meet religious needs under a numerus clausus system of Government concessions.
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