Unless poultry market owners recant their refusal to accept Judge Otto A. Rosalsky’s decision establishing rabbinical supervision of poultry markets—a step regarded as highly improbable—the New York rabbinate will declare its long-pending ban on poultry by next Monday.
Following the long-awaited show-down at City Hall yesterday when wholesalers indicated their refusal to accept the decision, the Kashruth Association moved to announce the formal religious prohibition.
“We absolutely forbid the Jewish public to eat chickens which have no plombes,” declared Rabbi Nachman Ebin, chairman of the Association, at the conference. Plombes, or tags affixed by rabbis to certify that chickens are slaughtered according to the Jewish ritual, are provided for in Judge Rosalsky’s decision which was handed down in mediation of a threatened strike by poultry slaughterers.
A tacit warning that legal action
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