Pointing out that the Bavarian law prohibiting schechita, the Jewish method of slaughtering goes into effect October 1, the eve of Yom Kippur, an appeal of the Bavarian Rabbinical Council calls on the Jews to fight for their religious liberty. The appeal characterizes Yom Kippur of this year as a day of “mourning and spiritual suppression.”
The law was passed early this year in the form of animal protection legislation which has been interpreted to ban schechita. There had been considerable talk of a change in the German penal code which would declare that schechita was not animal torture and thus make the law inoperative in so far as it affected the Jewish method of slaughtering.
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