Word: kosher
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...eyed with fear a Jewish butcher named Ludwig Frohwein was hustled into court at Weisbaden last week to confess that he had butchered a steer in kosher fashion...
...decree of Chancellor Hitler no kosher meat may be prepared in Germany. It can only be imported, under restrictions so drastic that German rabbis are now urging vegetarianism as the only salvation of the Fatherland's 200,000 Orthodox Jews. Germany's remaining 350,000 Jews are rated nonOrthodox. Up to last week anti-kosher arrests had all been for the crime of smuggling in kosher meat illegally. Butcher Frohwein was the first to be arrested for actual kosher butchery...
...Lakewood, N. J. last week to tackle money matters. Rabbis' salaries were running in arrears. For charities and schools there was a serious lack of ready cash. The Union voted to solve its financial problem by levying a tax on that cornerstone of orthodox Jewish life, the kosher slaughterhouse. It figured that if it could collect ½? on every pound of kosher meat sold. it could raise $1,000,000 or more in one year...
...many of the nation's 4,000,000-odd Jews are orthodox no man can say, because any congregation may include varying stripes of belief. But many a Jew cleaves to kosher dietary laws even after he has discarded other orthodox practices. In New York City where live nearly one half of all U. S. Jews there are about 6,500 kosher butcher shops. A kosher tax would be profitable, but whether the Agudath Harabonim could levy it effectively seemed doubtful. If all Jewish congregations approved it might be done by agreement with meat dealers. Or the rabbis could...
...visitor at the President's office was Representative Samuel Dickstein, chairman of the House Immigration Committee who comes from Manhattan's lower East Side and is celebrated for formulating kosher food laws. He had just initiated, at a secret session of his committee, a Congressional investigation of Nazi propaganda in the U. S. Asked if the President had approved his enterprise, Congressman Dickstein replied: "We are going ahead with the inquiry. You can draw your own conclusions. . . . The revelations will shock the nation, as did those of the Captain Boy-Ed and von Bernstorff episodes in the days...