Kosher slaughter

Two of Belgium’s three regions banned slaughter without stunning in 2017 and 2018, saying that the practice was cruel to animals.

The question of the kosher status of cultivated meat products carries great significance for the future of kashrut and may lay the groundwork for entirely new precedents in this area.

It was my special pleasure to welcome the Finnish Ambassador to Israel, Kirsikka Lehto-Asikainen, to talk with me about her country.

There are a few European countries that ban Kosher slaughter such as Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia and parts of Belgium.

European Union officials in Brussels invited Jewish and Muslim community leaders to discuss meat production, in a possible progress toward ensuring religious freedom.

Manchester’s oldest kosher meat provider, MBD Shechita Services, is being dissolved after incurring debts of well over $400,000. Here's how it happened.

The move would have threatened the future of Jewish communal life, says Ronald Lauder.

The Tzohar organization is a collaborative of over 800 orthodox rabbis launched in 2018 with the aim of providing more modern kashrut certification.

Europe’s two kosher foie gras factories aren’t in France, nor in England – instead, they are both in Hungary, where there are few Jews and kosher food is scarce.

A Greek court annulled a ministerial decision which allowed ritual slaughter without anesthesia being administered first.

‘Ruling brings Belgium into line with countries whose bans on Shechita date from the Nazi era,’ says president of Conference of European Rabbis.