Canada’s Shameful Attempt to Make Kashrut Illegal

It’s hard to say with any certainty what motivated Canada’s arms embargo—anti-Semitism, or simple moral confusion, or something else—and in any case the question is largely academic. But something else happened in Canada just a little earlier this month: the country’s two largest kosher-certification agencies filed suit against the national government, claiming that recent regulations on kosher slaughter amount to a de-facto ban on the practice, which is crucial to Jewish life and religious observance. And it is especially damning that, unlike similar regulations in several European countries, these don’t affect the production of halal meat—only kosher meat.