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To: rmlew; All
The National Recovery Act banned Kosher Butchering. The Jewish Brothers in the case overturning that fascist act were not named "Shechter" for nothing.

I would agree with you that the "National Recovery Act" was "fascist" in the sense that it set up government-supervised cartels of businesses and unions that dictated wages and prices in various industries and localities. And the outrageous way that the NRA was promoted with parades, etc. smacked of facsist and communist regimes abroad.

But I would disagree when you say that it banned kosher butchering. The Schecter Brothers case against the New Dealers was not a First Amendment freedom of religion case, but rather rooted in the government's denial of their right to contract with their customers. That SCOTUS had the guts to rule 9-0 in favor of the Schecters against the Roosevelt Administration tyrants.

But the Schechter brothers supported FDR in 1936 as the "American" thing to do.

Didn't know that. If they did, I would suggest they may have been intimidated. Roosevelt and pals were not without friends in the underworld, especially in big cities.

51 posted on 10/18/2012 12:36:30 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
I was wrong. The NRA did not ban kotcher butchering. It just improperly regulated it and the bureacrats had no concept of what was and was not Kosher. The Schechter brothers were convicted of failing to meet standards vaguely based on kosher standards, while still meeting Kosher requirements. They sold one chicken that was unfit under NYC law pursuant to the NRA, but was still Kosher. Hence, the nickname for the case is the "sick chicken case".
Many of the federal bureaucrats imposed the regulations in a manner that made sure that nor kosher butcher shop could meet the standards. Were the antisemites, idiots, or just government bullies? Who knows. But the temporary practical effect was to make it very difficult to get kosher chicken in NYC.
52 posted on 10/18/2012 3:15:38 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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