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November 28, 2025, 11:11 am
Keeping kosher alive: the year shechita held the line
Behind every kosher meal lies a campaign few ever see
By Shimon Cohen
Shimon Cohen from Shechita UK addresses the EC conference
December 19, 2024, 10:36 am
OPINION: Is the RSPCA assuring abattoirs or advancing an anti-faith agenda?
The RSPCA’s obsessive focus on shechita smells of something more insidious than concern for animal welfare
By Shimon Cohen
Kosher met on display at a butchers.
February 14, 2024, 5:54 pm
European Jews fear future after shechita ban
Strasbourg court says Belgian regions can insist on pre-stunning before slaughter
By Jenni Frazer
Shimon Cohen from Shechita UK addresses the EC conference
October 21, 2022, 10:16 am
Shechita UK chief warns of ‘threats’ to Jewish religious freedoms in Brussels speech
Shimon Cohen told an urgent European Commission (EC) conference of the 'blatant disregard various member states have towards Jewish religious freedoms'
By Lee Harpin
August 31, 2022, 12:12 pm
Shechita UK chief ‘confident’ government listening over animal labelling concerns
Results of government's call for evidence over animal labelling show 99 per cent of those who responded felt that method of slaughter info should be introduced for consumers
By Lee Harpin
Mike Freer
August 12, 2022, 4:31 pm
OPINION: Why I’m backing Liz Truss to be our next PM
The foreign secretary's dealings with Iran over the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe make her alive to the true nature of that regime, argues Mike Freer MP
Kosher met on display at a butchers.
July 15, 2022, 12:31 pm
‘Stunningly reckless!’ – Shechita UK attacks ‘ignorant’ Reform report on kosher meat
After a row breaks out over its report into Jewish ritual slaughter, Reform Judaism insists it is not changing its position
By Jenni Frazer
Neil Parish resigned as a Conservative MP after admitting watching pornography in the House of Commons (YouTube)
May 3, 2022, 1:01 pm
Porn shame MP was ‘noisiest opponent’ of shechita in Commons
Neil Parish was one of parliament's leading campaigners against Jewish religious slaughter.
By Lee Harpin
September 13, 2021, 6:14 pm
Shechita UK ‘confident’ over government’s possible food labelling reforms
The UK needs to create its own animal welfare legislation following the decision to exit the European Union.
By Lee Harpin
Cow (Photo by Garrett Butler on Unsplash via Jewish News)
December 17, 2020, 4:25 pm
OPINION: Court’s absurd bid to define Shechita for Jewish communities in Europe
Following a landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice, upholding a Belgian ban on kosher slaughter, Shechita UK's Shimon Cohen picks apart the decision
By Shimon Cohen
September 21, 2020, 5:07 pm
Polish parliament votes to ban £1.4bn industry of kosher, halal meat for export
Parliament's lower house, the Sejm, voted in favour of the Law on Animal Protection, which would ban slaughter without pre-stunning
By JTA
Environment Secretary George Eustice leaving Downing Street, Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
February 13, 2020, 4:00 pm
New environment secretary ‘made no secret of views on shechita,’ campaigners say
The newly-appointed minister George Eustice spoke in favour of post-cut stunning and stricter quotas for kosher meat in the UK
By Mathilde Frot
The Winston Churchill statue and Union flags in Parliament Square, London, ahead of the UK leaving the European Union at 11pm on Friday. (Photo credit: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)
January 31, 2020, 11:39 am
What does Brexit Day mean for British Jews?
From shechita and security to UK-Israel trade, we look at the impact of exit from the EU on the community
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Kosher meat on a shelf in a deli
February 28, 2018, 9:09 am
Community ‘encouraged’ by ‘open and honest’ labelling talks
Jewish groups tell MPs they support marking of kosher and hallal meat as long as other methods are also labelled
By Jewish News Reporter
Kosher meat
February 21, 2018, 4:39 pm
Veterinary body accused of ‘deliberately misleading readers’ with Shechita criticism
Vet Record editor Lord Trees criticised for comments in relation to non-stun slaughter in Britain
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