High Court Asked to Reject Appeals
Negating Ruling Upholding Shehita

tionality of the kosher slaugh-
ter provision of the 1958 fed-
eral Humane Slaughter Act.
In a motion to affirm a de-
cision handed down last April
by the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York, the joint advisory
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS committee of the Synagogue
Council of America and the
12—Friday, August 2, 1974
National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council
THE FAMOUS
said the lower court's decision
HARRY THOMA
was "clearly correct" and
CLOTHING SALE that "no further argument
was needed."
NOW IN PROGRESS
Leo Pfeffer, special coun-
SAVINGS FROM
sel of the American Jewish
Congress and attorney for the
12 Jewish groups, filed the
SUITS reg. $135-$275
motion.
ow $ 89"- $ 119- $ 1139 5°
The suit challenging the
SPORT COATS
constitutionality of the provi-
Reg. $95-$135
sions of the Humane Slaugh-
NOW $59.50469.50
ter
Act that define shehita
AND TAILORED SLACKS
(Jewish ritual slaughter) as
Reg $25 $35
humane and permissible was
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brought by a group of eight
ARRY THOMAS taxpayers, the Society for
Fine Clothes for Over 38 Years
Animal Rights and the Com-
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mittee for a Wall of Separa-
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tion Between Church and
OPEN SUNDAY
State in America. The joint
11 to
advisory committee partici-

NEW YORK — Twelve na-
tional Jewish organizations
urged the U.S. Supreme
Court to reject without hear-
ing argument an appeal seek-
ing to overturn a district
court upholding the constitu-

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pated in the case as inter-
venor-defendant.
In its ruling the lower court
held that there had been a
"persuasive showing" dur-
ing the trial that "Jewish
ritual slaughter was historic-
ally related to considerations
of humaneness in times when
such concerns were practical-
ly non-existent."
The court also said that "by
making it possible for those
who wish to eat ritually ac-
ceptable meat to slaughter
the animal in accordance
with the tenets of their faith,
Congress neither established
the tenets of that faith nor
interfered with the exercise
of any other."
The plaintiffs appealed to
the Supreme Court.
The Jewish organizations'
motion argued that if kosher
slaughter had been prohibited
by Congress on the ground it
coincided with the require-
ments of the Jewish faith,
such a law would be unconsti-
tutional because it would pro-
hibit the free exercise of re-
ligion, have the purpose and
primary effect of inhibiting
religion and violate the due
process clause of the Fifth
Amendment.
The motion also challenged
the appellants' standing to
bring the suit, arguing that
they did not suffer "direct
personal injury." The Jew-
ish organizations declared:
"Nothing in the Humane
Slaughter Act compels the
appellants to slaughter cattle
in a way they deem inhumane
or even to eat meat of cattle'
so slaughtered. The act al-
lows m an y methods of
slaughtering animals for
food, only one of which is
the ritual method."
Pfeffer in his motion for
the 12 Jewish groups also
argued that "what the appel-
lants are asking the court to
do is to enact legislation be-
cause they are dissatisfied
with the legislation enacted
by Congress."

Israel Dailies Face
Economic Crisis

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Noah
Moses, editor _of the inde-
pendent afternoon newspaper
Yediot Ahronot and presi-
dent of the Israeli Daily
Newspaper Publishers Asso-
ciation, has warned that Is-
raeli dailies are "facing a
crisis of life or death" be-
cause of the new economic
measures adopted by the
government.
Moses, who is also a mem-
ber of the board of directors
of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, said that the news-
papers face the prospect of
being forced out of business
by the new policies that were
introduced to combat infla-
tion.
"Besides stiff pay in-
creases, higher paper prices
and a 20 per cent cutback in
advertising since the Yom
Kippur War we are now
faced with added problems,"
Moses declared.
"The government h a s
slapped customs duties and
an import surcharge on
newsprint, and next April we
shall be subject to the new
added value tax on our gross
income."

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