Important Decision on Dietary Lows
All Poultry Sold as Kosher Will
6—DETROIT JEWISH
NEWS
Friday, June 4, 1954
Never Too . 01d
Carry Plomhe' Beginning June 13
All poultry sold as kosher in
Detroit must have a kosher seal
beginning June 13, it was an-
nounced by the Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis. This decision
was reached after lengthy nego-
tiations between the COuncil of
Orthodox Rabbis with the Ritual
Poultry Slaughterers of Detroit,
Detroit Kosher Butchers Asso-
ciation and the Kosher Caterers.
Sidney M. Shevitz, president
of the Jewish Community
Council, announced the Coun-
cil's endorsement of this step as
consistent with the Council's in-
terest in protecting the rights
of observant householders. The
new agreement will not result
in the raising of poultry prices
to the consumer since the
butchers have agreed to absorb
the additional expense involved
in production of the kosher
plombes or metallic seals and
their being placed on the wing
of each fowl.
The deci.sion, which will affect
all users of kosher poultry in
Detroit, was reached at a meet-
ing of the Detroit rabbinate in
the o ffice of the Vaad Harabo-
/inn on May 24.
The following is the statement
issued by the rabbis at that
meeting:
"In order that we may do away with
certain irregularities that prevail in the
`Kashruth' field; to remedy a sad • situa-
tion which has plagued us for a lorig
time, a situation that is threatening to
go out of hand -and is liable to under-
mine an d bring about a complete break-
down of Kashruth in the city; and to
Inaugurate an adequate rabbinical super-
vision in all Kosher poultry markets, be
it resolved that:-
1. A.11 Kosher-slaughtered fowl shall,
after a certain date, bear a Kosher seal,
even as we have always had a kosher
sign, stamp or tag on all Kosher-slaugh-
tered beef, calves and lambs.
2. Those 'Kosher' seals, which will be
Issued by the office of the Detroit
Council of Orthodox Rabbis, shall on
one side bear the inscription: 'Kosher'
in Hebrew, and on the other side the
Hebrew words for `Vaad Harabonim \re-
Hashochtim,' and 'Detroit' in English.
3. Those 'Kosher' seals shall be dis-
tributed to all qualified shochtim in the
city, who will affix same on the wing
of each fowl after it has been slaugh-
tered.
4. As it has to take some time to
manufacture those specially ordered
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seals, and as it will take some time to
fully inform the buying public about the
new ruling. it shall take effect on Sun-
day, June 13, 1954.
5. No shochet shall from that day on
issue a Kosher-slaughtered fowl without
the seal being affixed on its wing.
6. Any shochet who will violate that
ruling shall have his license revoked
and be declared disqualified.
7. It is further resolved that the
Jewish community shall be fully in-
formed of this new ruling prior to the
date when it is to become effective.
"We take these means to inform the
buying public of the new ruling, anti-
cipating of course, our people's undi-
vided, whole-hearted cooperation and
support. We ask everyone concerned to
please remember that from the above
mentioned date. namely June 13. 1954.
all Kosher poultry must have a Kosher
Haile Selassie's
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Israel
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The new tory when both states fought
Yugoslav Minister to Israel, against a common enemy in the
Yvan Vucmanovic, presented his second World War.
Replying, President Ben Zvi
credentials to Israel President said: "The common fight
Itzhak Ben Zvi and said that his against our enemy was rooted
government has a "sincere de- in the spiritual semblance of
sire to continue the friendly re- both nations and I hope the
lations between both countries friendly relations between the
which are rooted in recent his- two states continue to flourish."
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"We take this opportunity to appeal
to you not to take any chances with
the Kashruth of your home. You are
surely entitled to buy with complete
confidence and with the full knowledge
that you are getting exactly what you
are paying for. Please also bear in
mind. that inasmuch as all qualified
shochtim. who are endorsed by us and
are under our supervision will be pro-
hibited after June 12, 1954 to issue to
anyone a Kosher-slaughtered fowl with-
out the prescribed seal, you should de-
mand same even in the case when the
shochet slaughters the fowl in your
presence.
Yugoslavia Is Determined on Friendship with
Age is no barrier to those
who want to help their fellow
man, according to LEWIS
SANDS (left) of Los Angeles,
who at 95 is probably the
oldest individual ever to join
Bnai Brith. He is seen here
handing his application for
membership to JAMES J.
ROSTLER, president of Los
Angeles Lodge No. 487, Bnai
Brith. Born on September 7,
1859, the retired nonagenarian
is the oldest living member
of the Order.
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York has distributed among Cambridge Librarians Find
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One of the several documents Yiddish manuscripts, which are
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in the kit, titled "Oldest of the included in the Genizah collec-
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Ancients," makes the following tion, and which date back to
claim to Solomonic descent 1382. The manuscripts are con-
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"The Ethiopian Queen of ough examination established
Sheba is recorded in the Bible that they contain the following
to have come to Jerusalem to parts: (1) A poem on the Gan
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dom. Earlier verses, in chapter and parts of the German Gud-
9 (2-Kings), record that King • run saga.
Solomon has constructed a navy
with which to ply commerce on
the Red Sea. Since some of
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that trade was with Ethiopia,
the Queen of Sheba learned of
King Solomon through the ex-
! change of knowledge that this
contact stimulated. She journ-
eyed to Jerusalem, the Bible re-
cords, because she had 'heard
of the fame of Solomon con-
cerning the name of the Lord'."
The document continues:
"The length of her stay is
not recorded, but Ethiopian his-
tory reports that after her re-
turn home she. gave birth to
Solomon's son, Menelik 1, first
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ruler of the Solomonic- line of
Ethiopian Emperors. Haile Se-
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lassie 1, who became Regent in
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that line • . Frequent com-
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the people of the Jewish com-
munities of Asia Minor and the
' repeated migrations from those
areas had given Ethiopian life
strong Hebraic accents and the
Court had adopted the Jewish
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first followers in Ethiopia dur-
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claim, the fact remains that
early Jewish influence in. Africa
was very great. To this day
there exists in the heart of
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