Word: koshers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...