Brexit means Brexit, except I think we all now know that it doesn’t, apart from when it does. One area where Brexit actually does mean Brexit is in the laws that govern food production and that ...

The European Court of Justice’s verdict on the legality of the bans on Shechita in the Wallonia and Flanders regions of Belgium was always going to be a landmark ruling. Unfortunately, it did not go ...

Despite the EU Parliament's vote Wednesday to legalize “shechita,” the Jewish method of humane animal slaughter is still very much in danger. It was reported on Thursday that the European Jewish ...

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A constitutional court in Belgium ruled on Wednesday that traditional Jewish shechita is permitted under Belgian law and will be allowed to continue unimpeded. “Restrictions on kosher shechita”, the ...

A new big offensive has been started against the Jewish practice of slaughtering by the Austrian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A number of mass meetings have been held, and others ...

There is a possibility of the prohibition of Shechita in Norway which went into effect in the New Year, being lifted, Aaron Gruzd, a leading Jewish communal worker in Norway, President of the ...

THE HAGUE (JTA) — Estonia will change its law on religious slaughter, government officials have said. The change is necessary because religious slaughter “does not take new scientific knowledge into ...

Jewish Shechita method of slaughter can be more human than stunning animals, claims Henry Grunwald OBE QC, Chairman of Shechita UK. 01 April 2011 • 7:00am The Jewish Community is fully supportive of ...