Excerpt from The Maccabaean, Vol. 23: May, 1913 Over in Halifax, a Jewish schochet was fined a few dollars by a magistrate for having slaughtered an animal accord ing to the Jewish method. The prosecu tion was conducted by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which seems to think, in spite of all scientific opinion to the contrary, that stunning an animal and then cutting its throat is more humane than cutting its throat according to the careful Jewish method, without first crazing the animal. But one need not look for fairness in the'consideration of Shechitah by goyim. It is but a 'mask for the latent prejudice that exists against Jews. Wherever the Shechitah question is raised, it is the advance battery of an anti - Semitic movement. It is not the brute animals they are thinking of. It is the anomalous state of the Jews. They stun their animals before killing them. Jews do not. Therefore, they being the banner bearers of civlization, the Jews must be wrong. And who are the Jews, any way? What right have they to practice their mysterious rites in the light of the modern day? In Russia, a pogrom against Shech ita is given over to the scientific men, the more brutal pogrom becomes a popular holiday. The same is true of Finland and even of England. It is a question whether much time should be spent in convincing our opponents of the human eness of Shechita Whatever we may say, the method' is wrong. Let 'us rather strengthen our position politically, and armed with the political rights that are ours, fight our enemies in the Open, lett ing them know that we understand the mo tives that actuate them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.