A ban on non-mechanically stunned slaughter would profoundly harm the lives of observant Jews.

WEYMOUTH − Mayor Robert Hedlund is proposing an ordinance that would establish parameters for the ritual slaughter of animals while protecting residents' religious rights. Hedlund proposed the ...

Orthodox Jewish rabbis clean slaughtered chickens at the Jerusalem Chicken Factory in 2006 in Jerusalem. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images via JTA.org) The top rights court in Europe has ruled ...

The directors of the Jewish Community Center of Krakow and the Krakow Islamic Center are joining forces to fight Poland’s ban on Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter. Jonathan Ornstein, the JCC’s ...

USDA bans Mexican cattle imports after screwworm cases increase south of the border. (MemoryCatcher/Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — Europe’s top rights court upheld a ban on killing livestock ...

The umbrella group representing Polish Jews petitioned Poland’s constitutional court to reverse a ban on ritual slaughter methods. In a statement released Friday, the Union of Jewish Religious ...

Animals rights activists have cried fowl at kapparot (also called kaporos), a 2,000-year-old Orthodox Jewish tradition involving ritual chicken slaughter. In preparation for Yom Kippur, practitioners ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch upper house, the Senate, on Tuesday rejected a bill that would have banned the ritual slaughter of animals and had been criticised by both Muslim and Jewish groups. The ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Israel's leading rabbi has warned Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders that his party's support for a ban of ritual slaughter of animals in the Netherlands is "anti-Semitic" ...

(JTA) — The top rights court in Europe has ruled that bans of ritual slaughter in parts of Belgium can stand, ending the hopes of Jewish advocates who had said the bans were an unfair infringement on ...