Poland - Claiming that Polish Chief Rabbi, Michael
Schudrich, purposely excluded efforts by outside organizations to aid in the
recently-defeated effort to reverse a ban on ritual slaughter out of “ego
considerations,” officials from the European Jewish Association (EJA) are
calling for his resignation.
JTA Reports that Rabbi Menachem Margolin, director of the
Brussels-based EJA, accused Schudrich of blocking outside efforts so that he
could “be the only one dealing with the subject.”
The bill, which would have reversed the ban on ritual
slaughter that went into effect in January, was defeated on July 12th by a 222
to 178 vote in the Polish parliament.
Schudrich has also come under fire by other organizations
who charged him with withholding information on the status of the bill until it
was “too late” to do anything.
Schudrich called Margolin’s statements “unwarranted hate,”
while insisting he was in contact with both the European Jewish Congress and
the Conference of European Rabbis throughout the process.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said there are no current
plans to reintroduce legislation concerning the matter
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