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Katharina von Schnurbein speaks at a European Jewish Congress event in Vienna, in this undated photo. (Courtesy)
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How the EU antisemitism warrior became a defender of kosher slaughter, circumcision
By Canaan Lidor
The bloc’s point person for fighting Jew-hatred, Katharina von Schnurbein, is an influential advocate for Jewish customs many consider controversial in Europe
Katharina von Schnurbein speaks at a European Jewish Congress event in Vienna, in this undated photo. (Courtesy)
June 26, 2023, 9:23 am
How the EU antisemitism warrior became a defender of kosher slaughter, circumcision
The bloc’s point person for fighting Jew-hatred, Katharina von Schnurbein, is an influential advocate for Jewish customs many consider controversial in Europe
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: Staff work on the production line of Kosher poultry meat in a Kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on Jan. 15, 2021 (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
October 22, 2022, 5:50 am
EU hosts Jewish, Muslim leaders defending ritual slaughter amid local bans
Jewish shechita and Islamic zabiha methods of meat production have come under attack in recent years, mainly by right-wing parties who seek to reduce religions’ presence in society
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative image of a demonstration of a ritual goat slaughter for ultra-Orthodox Jewish students in Zichron Moshe, on April 26, 2011. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
October 27, 2021, 11:25 pm
Greece’s top court nixes ritual slaughter permit, calls for alternative solution
Jewish watchdogs had warned of ‘downstream consequences’ following EU decision last year upholding Belgian bans
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Members of the Belgian Jewish community seen walking on the streets in the Jewish quarter in Antwerp, Belgium, August 7, 2014. (Johanna Geron/FLASH90)
December 31, 2018, 1:22 pm
Kosher slaughter ends in northern Belgium, threatening supplies to Europe
Following ruling last year, animals must be stunned before they are killed, a measure that precludes traditional Jewish butchering method
By Agencies
In this photo taken Thursday, April 19, 2012, sausages are displayed in a butcher shop in Klagenfurt, in the southern Austrian province of Carinthia. (AP/Darko Bandic)
July 18, 2018, 10:46 pm
In Austrian tale of kosher meat ban, groups find bone to pick with far right
Local Jews and opposition politicians were stewing after a Freedom Party official proposed limits on ritual slaughter. But he was not the first to cook up the idea
By Raphael Ahren
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