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Posts tagged with Kosher slaughter

• BELGIAN COURT DECISION TO BAN CENTRAL TENET OF JEWISH FAITH IS OPPORTUNITY FOR EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TO FULLY STAND BEHIND THEIR JEWISH COMMUNITIES

  (Brussels 1st October 2021) Belgian Constitutional Court decision to uphold effective ban on Kosher slaughter is an opportunity for other […]

• Stunning religious practice in Europe

  If the European Union wants to welcome Jews and Muslims, it needs to make their legitimate religious practices welcome as […]

• COVID Diary- Reflections from Our Advisory Board Member Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs

  Every Day during the Corona crisis our Advisory Board Member Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs (NL) writes a diary, on request […]

• EJA Press release on European Court of Justice ruling on Kosher slaughter

  EUROPEAN JEWISH ASSOCIATION LAMENTS EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE RULING ON KOSHER SLAUGHTER IN BELGIUM “WHAT A TERRIBLE MESSAGE TO SEND […]

• POLISH SENATE KICKS KOSHER MEAT EXPORT BAN UNTIL 2025 – EU JEWISH HEAD VOWS TO KEEP ON FIGHTING “AS WE HAVE FOR GENERATION AFTER GENERATION”

  Brussels 14 October 2020. After the Polish Senate voted today to postpone the controversial animal rights Bill provisions to ban […]

• Reflections on life and the polish animal welfare law from our advisory board member Rabbi Binyomen Jacobs

  A healthy winter! During the war, Germans who had volunteered to join the SS and the SD and Dutch collaborators […]

• EJA Open Letter Calling on Polish Government to Scrap Kosher Ban Plans

  EJA INITIATED OPEN LETTER FROM DOZENS OF PARLIAMENTARIANS ACROSS EUROPE AND JEWISH LEADERS CALLING ON POLISH GOVERNMENT TO SCRAP KOSHER […]

• Proposed animal welfare bill in Poland is ‘of deep concern to European Jewry’

  Rabbi Menachem Margolin: “This draft law puts unproven and unscientific claims about animal welfare above freedom of religion, breaching a […]

• EU Attorney General’ opinion: individual member state moves to ban kosher slaughter run contrary to EU law and are a breach of commitments to respect freedom of religion.

  The EJA welcomes the EU Attorney General’ opinion that individual member state moves to ban kosher slaughter run contrary to […]

• Head of European Jewish Association: We’re not wanted here

  As ban on kosher slaughter takes hold in most of Belgium, Rabbi Menachem Margolin wants that legislation in some countries […]