Official claims EU Court infringing on religious rights of Europe’s Jewish community
Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén has accused the European Court of Justice of infringing on the religious freedoms of Europe’s Jewish community by deciding to uphold a ban on the kosher slaughter of animals in Belgium.
Semjén, the head of Hungary’s co-ruling Christian Democrats, said the EU Court’s ruling favoured animal rights over human rights, particularly religious ones, which the deputy PM said constituted a violation of human dignity.
“Hungary’s Christian Democratic government will always defend the spiritual and physical well-being of Jewish communities,” Semjén said.
The deputy PM in charge of church policy said that like Hungary, the European Union too had a duty to protect the religious freedoms of its Jewish communities. “If it fails to do so, it will also end up losing its own identity as well,” Semjén said.
Beijing photo exhibition showcases Jewish heritage of three Visegrád countries
A joint photo exhibition showing the Jewish cultural heritage of three of the Visegrad Group countries opened under a Council of Europe scheme in Beijing on Friday.
The exhibition hosted by the Hungarian Cultural Institute presents the life, architectural and cultural heritage of the Jewish communities of Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic under the title European Cultural Routes – V4 Jewish Heritage, the institute said in a statement.
The Hungarian section shows the Budapest Dohány Street synagogue, Europe’s largest, the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives, the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park and a 19th century synagogue in the city of Pécs.
Poland shows the local closed Hasidic community and followers of the movement that emerged in that country in the mid-18th century.
The Czech section features images of refurbished synagogues built between the 16th and 19th century and other buildings across the country.
The CoE launched its Cultural Routes programme in 1987 to illustrate the diversity of European culture and promote its rich heritage.
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Source: MTI
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The methods employed to slaughter animals for kosher or halal meat are primitive and unnecessarily cruel in this day and age and it is quite right for those methods to be banned. I have seen how these animals are killed with my own eyes and it is disgusting. Religion is no excuse – some religions used to perform human sacrifices but they are no longer permitted.
I agree with “outraged”.
Also, how “funny” and hypocrit of Fidesz gang to suddenly acts as advocates of Jewish “rights” when they themselves have aways been openly antisemitic ( countless antisemitic “intellectuals” have been decorated and endorsed by Orbán during the past ten years, not to speak of antisemitic Fidesz posters about Soros which we all remember and that remained visible for months all over Budapest and only got temporarly removed when Israel pm visited his fellow dictator friend Victorinus the Caveman…)