The Jew as a Bloodthirsty Butcher: Laws Banning Ritual Slaughter (Shechita)
b'Speaker: Dr. Brigitte Sion\\n\\nAffiliation: Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Program in Religious Studies and Department of Journalism, New York University\\n\\nTitle: "The Jew as a Bloodthirsty Butcher: Laws Banning Ritual Slaughter (Shechita)"\\n\\nConvener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)\\n\\nLocation: Yale University, New Haven, CT\\n\\nDate: December 4, 2008\\n\\nDescription: Dr. Brigitte Sion does not focus on whether Jewish ritual slaughter (shechita) is more or less moral than other forms of animal slaughter, but on the fact that very small countries with even smaller Jewish populations have adopted a ban on shechita, which makes meat kosher for observant Jews. She maintains that this ban is merely a cover for new forms of antisemitism.'