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2003.02.25 Gina Holland, The Jerusalem Post, p. 3 – “Two Long Island butchers had sued the state Department of Agriculture and Markets. Their lawyer, Robert Jay Dinerstein, said there are disagreements about the interpretation of the Jewish laws governing what is kosher within the Orthodox Jewish community and other branches of Judaism.
“He compared the state's use of only Orthodox requirements to a state giving priority to Roman Catholic views. "If another denomination of Christianity offered its members Communion, they could only use a Eucharist and wine approved by the Roman Catholic Church; otherwise, the Communion was illegitimate and perpetrated a fraud," Dinerstein wrote in a filing…
An estimated 5 percent of the 5 million Jews in American maintain kosher diets.”
The U.S. Supreme Court was correct in agreeing with the Appeals Court that “the laws improperly take sides in a religious matter.” Orthodox Jews are careful to look for the ka•shᵊr•utꞋ labels they trust. The government continues to prohibit fraud in the use of ka•shᵊr•utꞋ labeling. Bringing the government into decide a purely religious argument violates the U.S. Constitution.
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