(anglicized: /ʃəxiːˈtɑː/; Hebrew: שחיטה; [ʃχiˈta]; also transliterated shehitah, shechitah, shehita) is ritual slaughtering of certain mammals and birds for food...

fish) must come from a healthy animal slaughtered in a process known as shechitah. Without the proper slaughtering practices even an otherwise kosher animal...

Early criticism of Judaism and its texts, laws, and practices originated in inter-faith polemics between Christianity and Judaism. Important disputations...

Hasidim who maintained underground yeshivos and mikvehs, and provided shechitah and ritual circumcision services in the Soviet Union. The Rebbes of Chabad...

Oriental Orthodox Churches, have rituals that "display obvious links with shechitah, Jewish kosher slaughter." Another Oriental Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian...

Berachot on the blessings; Hilchoth Avelut on the laws of mourning; Hilchoth Shechitah on the ritual slaughtering of animals for Kosher meat. Gedaliah ibn Jechia...

also included. Ma'akhalot Assurot: laws of forbidden foods (see kashrut) Shechitah: laws of ritual slaughter Hafla'ah (Separation): Shevuot: Person-focused...

are forbidden. Animals may be eaten as long as they are killed using shechitah, a method where the animal has its throat cut using a specially sharpened...

Elul (1945) – Rabbi Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft publicly performs the first shechitah on German soil since it was outlawed by the Nazis in 1933. 13 Elul (1909)...

then proceeded to deftly pick up the chalef (shechitah knife) and demonstrated how to perform the shechitah and resolved their issue. Einhorn was so impressed...

who holds a license from a rabbi and has been examined on the laws of shechitah. This alone means that halal meat is forbidden to those of the Jewish...

animal "terefah." Incidentally, it discusses the differences between shechitah and melikah (pinching off the heads of birds brought as sacrifices; see...

other Orthodox Christians, have rituals that "display obvious links with shechitah, Jewish kosher slaughter." The Bible, states Norman Geisler, stipulates...

to be passed in Switzerland, Germany and Scandinavia. In Switzerland shechitah was forbidden throughout the whole country in 1893 after having been banned...

also know that during the original debate on this issue in Norway, where shechitah has been banned since 1930, one of the parliamentarians said straight...

Armenian and other Orthodox rituals of slaughter display obvious links with shechitah, Jewish kosher slaughter. Masri, Basheer Ahmad (1989). Animals in Islam...

kosher animals may be eaten if killed using the slaughter method known as shechitah, where the animal is killed by having its throat cut swiftly using an...

named because here was the designated place for the ritual slaughter (shechitah) of cattle. In the neighborhood known as Barrio de Hamazelt, the wealthiest...

Latvian-born father was appointed Chief Shokhet for the Melbourne United Shechitah Board. When he was 18 he was the recipient of the Max Michaelis scholarship...

of the four ritual codices: Chiddushim (Warsaw, 1830), treating of the shechitah and terefah Simchat Yom-Tob (ib. 1841), complete commentary on the tractate...

Nazi government came to power, one of its first measures was to prohibit shechitah (ritual slaughter). Inevitably, the price of imported kosher meat skyrocketed...

shochet and mohel. In the early days, the shechitah of animals took place in the butcher's backyard, and the shechitah of fowl in the shochet's backyard. Prior...

Kahanovitch established a central supervisory committee, the Va'ad HaShechitah, to oversee the city's kosher slaughterers. He delivered sermons and taught...

kosher slaughter; he debated on the radio with those who wanted to ban shechitah. For a book about the confrontation with death in America, Dr. Michael...

The Kehilla also offers its members a mikveh, Kashrut supervision and Shechitah. The yeshivas go under the name Yeshiva Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. It...

Jewish-community-based CSAs organized by Hazon, a movement has emerged to bring shechitah, kosher slaughter, back to the small farm, using humanely and sustainably-raised...

of the Federation of Synagogues, vice president of the London Board of Shechitah, and president of the Initiation Society. He also served on the Board...

relating to Synagogue/Communal/Family, Torah education, Kashrut, and Shechitah. Moreover, as the Av Beit Din of Dublin, Rabbi Pearlman adjudicated many...

the Conservative Movement. The community is active, performs its own shechitah, have their own schools and NOAM Olami youth groups and send participants...

at the age of seventeen, when, at his father's suggestion, he wrote "Shechitah uTerefot," rules for the slaughtering of animals and the eating of their...