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Said article is especially apropos at this time in view of a recent decision in the Magistrate's Court of New York City in reference to the violation of the kosher food laws by Jacob Branfman & Son, one of the largest, if not the largest of the kosher delicatessen manufacturers...
...fact that most of the persons in that vicinity had in the past eaten the products of this company, and according to the Jewish dietary laws, there is a grave question as to whether the dishes that were used while eating these products would continue to be kosher. . . . HARRY SAND...
...article referred to the statement is made that 90% of all New York poultry is consumed by Jews. No doubt this item referred to live poultry, which is consumed largely by the kosher, or Jewish trade. This, however, is not in line with the statistics available, as it is estimated that not more than 75% of the live poultry received on the New York market is consumed by the Jewish people...
Ninety per cent of all New York poultry is consumed by Jews, who eat two pounds of kosher fowl per capita per week (see p. 24) and pay an estimated $16,000,000 a year to racketeers thereby. A swarthy man will say a blessing over the broiler when his end finally comes, and pass a sharp knife across his knotted gullet. This man will be a shochet (ritual slaughterer), and he will probably belong to an association ruled by gangsters. Even dressed and plucked, the broiler is not yet free of violence, for if his owner does not string...
Many a bimah (pulpit) of New York synagogs vibrated with Rabbinical wrath last Friday evening. The Kashruth Association, guild of ritual food inspectors, met during the week in anger. Some 6,500 kosher butcher shops feared for their supplies. Half as many kosher delicatessen stores were worried about their spicy provender; householders in The Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn chirped excitedly. All because of horrid disclosures of racketeering in the city's kosher food markets (see p. 15). The Kashruth Association called conditions in the kosher chicken markets "a blot upon the good name of the Jew." The Kashruth...