Israeli Chief Rabbi Issues Fur Edict
February 21, 2007 - By Reuters

JERUSALEM -- Jews must not wear fur skinned from live animals,
Israel's chief rabbi said in a religious ruling on Tuesday.

"All Jews are obliged to prevent the horrible phenomenon of cruelty
to animals and be a 'light onto nations' by refusing to use products
that originate from acts which cause such suffering," Rabbi Yona
Metzger said.

Animal rights campaigners in Israel and abroad say that animals are
skinned alive at fur farms in China.

Metzger issued the edict in response to an appeal by an Israeli
legislator who looked into the reports of animal cruelty in China at
the request of a constituent.

The ruling stopped short of banning the use of fur from animals
skinned after they were slaughtered.

Mati Korinio of Israel's Nature and Parks Authority, which oversees
fur imports, said much of the fur sold in the Jewish state did not
originate in China.

Source: Reuters



'Tel Aviv (Israel) Chief Sephardic Rabbi Haim David Halevi ruled
in 1992 that Jews should not manufacture or wear fur because it
constitutes a violation of Jewish law. "
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http://www.da4a.org/trappingfur.htm - fur info' inc. graphic images.