It is a pleasure to be able to say that
the Jewish community has on the whole received with great goodwill the article in the Spectator which appealed for more humane methods in the slaughter of animals in accord- ance with Jewish rites. We appealed to Jews to adopt some means, such as the Weinberg apparatus, for avoiding the present " casting " process, and we note that the Jewish Chronicle, for instance, in backing up our appeal, remarks truly that it has made the same appeal for many years. " The article," says the Jewish 'Chronicle, " is kindly in tone, in fact was inspired with humaneness to Jews. That we have to suffer the indignity of such an appeal and yet recognize its right- eousness is the fault, not of our contemporary, but of those who are charged by the community with looking after the affairs of Schechita.' That is exactly the kind of responSe to our appeal which we hoped for, and which we greatly value. It deepens our belief that reform is practicable.
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