Religion Clause

Israel National News reports that on Tuesday the Parliament in Romania gave final passage to a law that explicitly allows kosher slaughter ...

Jerusalem Post reports that today in Brussels, the European Commission, in partnership with the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the U.N. Co...

JTA reports  that in the only portion of Belgium where kosher and halal slaughter is still legal, an attempt to ban those forms of slaughter...

Last week, Greece's highest administrative court-- the Hellenic Council of State-- in a ruling essentially banned kosher and Halal slaug...

In a case referred to it by Belgium's Constitutional Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union in  Centraal Israëlitisch Consist...

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued two Factsheets of interest this week: Factsheet on Rohingya Refugees in So...

The Court of Justice of the European Union last week released an Advocate General's opinion concluding that a decree of Belgium's F...

As previously reported , in January Belgium's Council of State-- the country's highest court-- heard oral arguments on challenges to...

In Œuvre d’assistance aux bêtes d’abattoirs (OABA) v. Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Alimentation , the Court of Justice of the European ...

Hamodia reports on lengthy oral arguments yesterday before Belgium's Council of State-- the country's highest court-- on laws that ...

The New York Times editorial board today stepped into the debate in some European countries over kosher and halal slaughter, as a law in the...

In a September 20 press release , the Court of Justice of the European Union announced the proposed finding of the Advocate General in a ref...

In Belgium yesterday, three organizations filed suit challenging legislation in the Flemish Region of the country that bans kosher and halal...

In Belgium yesterday, the Coordinating Committee of Jewish Organizations of Belgium (CCOJB) filed suit in the country's Constitutional C...

Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that a court in Belgium has ruled that restricting kosher slaughtering of animals "excessively and u...

JTA reported yesterday that in Belgium, the Council of State has issued an advisory opinion that proposed legislation to ban ritual slaught...

American Jewish World reported yesterday on the end of the long-running lawsuit against ConAgra Foods challenging the adequacy of its standa...

Poland's Constitutional Tribunal ruled yesterday, in a 5-4 decision, that a ban on kosher and halal slaughter of animals is unconstituti...

In   Wallace v. ConAgra Foods, Inc. , (8th Cir., April 4, 2014), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals took an unexpected route in deciding ...

As previously reported , in Poland a 2012 court decision which Parliament refused to reverse effectively banned kosher and halal slaughter ...