Israel says Polish ban on kosher slaughter unacceptable

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Israel says Polish ban on kosher slaughter unacceptable

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has criticized an extension of Poland's ban on kosher meat production, saying on Monday that it damaged efforts to rehabilitate Jewish life in a country whose large Jewish community was all but wiped out in the Holocaust. Citing animal cruelty, Warsaw lawmakers on Friday rejected a government-backed bill that would have allowed slaughterhouses to produce meat in accordance with Jewish ritual law. The practice was halted last year by a constitutional court ruling. Israel's Foreign Ministry called the vote "totally unacceptable". ...

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