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Poll: 45 percent of Britons favor banning shechitah

By JTA

MARCH 29, 2013 18:01

About 45 percent of 1,900 Britons polled favored banning shechitah (Jewish ritual slaughter) and 38 percent said they favored banning nonmedical circumcision.

In the poll, which was conducted last week by the YouGov polling agency for The Jewish Chronicle of London, 45 percent of respondents backed banning shechitah. Another 28 percent said they were undecided and 27 percent opposed such a ban.

When asked about “male circumcision for religious reasons," 38 percent supported a ban, 35 percent opposed a ban and 27 percent were undecided, The Jewish Chronicle reported this week.

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