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Civil laws regarding kashrut

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The State's response was to create a new law which avoids any definition of a what is or is not "kosher". Instead, businesses which claim to be kosher must provide details about what they mean by "kosher", and the State will check to ensure that this standard is adhered to. For example, kosher
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restaurants must display a poster (provided by the Kosher Food Enforcement Bureau) on which they display the name of their rabbinic certifier, how often he inspects the establishment, whether or not he requires all ingredients to be kosher-supervised, and so on.
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Although earlier courts upheld some of these laws, courts have since determined that the laws would establish religious practice, and therefore struck the laws down; opponents of this decision had attempted to argue that
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in which it found that the State's use of "Orthodox Jewish law" as a basis for the definition of kosher was an adoption of substantive religious standards which violated the state and federal constitutions.
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to sell a product which was called kosher if, in general, it was not processed in accordance with the Jewish religion. However, challenges were made to such laws on the basis that they appear to be
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nature, in others the rules of kosher are fully defined in law, and in others still it is sufficient that the manufacturer only believes that the product complies with Jewish dietary regulations.
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In this manner, government enforcement becomes a consumer-protection issue, and avoids the problems of advancing any particular religious view.
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See Mark A. Berman, Kosher Fraud Statutes and the Establishment Clause: Are. They Kosher?, 26 COLUM. J.L. & SOC. PROBS. 1, 28 (1992)
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In several cases, laws restricting the use of the term "kosher" have later been determined to be illegal religious interference.
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was simply a set of standards for food preparation, and therefore there would be no difference between labelling something as
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Historically, the statutes of some states in the United States attempted to define the term "kosher", and make it a
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and labelling it as low-sodium, high-fiber, pasteurised, calcium-enriched, or "contains no cholesterol".
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Under the new law, the state merely maintains a database of certification organizations and products.
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The ordinance of Baltimore City which created a kosher law being found to be unconstitutional
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to Jewish dietary laws are often defined differently in different jurisdictions.
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Prohibition against slaughtering an animal and its offspring on the same day
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For example, in some places the law may require that a rabbi certify the
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by the states in question, which would constitute a violation of the
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of both the New Jersey state constitution and the First Amendment.
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The Supreme Court refused to hear the case, and denied
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The McKinney's Agriculture and Markets Law Sec. 201-a
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United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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Barghout v. Bureau of Kosher Meat & Food Control
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New Jersey's kosher laws being found to violate the
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Index

kashrut
Jewish
mainly concerning food
felony
establishment of a religious practice
constitutional
no law respecting an establishment of religion
kashrut
establishment clauses
New Jersey Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
New York
certiorari
Legal aspects of ritual slaughter
Kashrut
Kosher food
Arkansas
California
Connecticut
Illinois
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania

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