People v. Gordon

Defendant was charged with violating section 435-a of the Penal Law, in that, with intent to defraud, he sold a chicken falsely representing it to be “ kosher ” and “ as having been prepared under and of a product * * * sanctioned by the orthodox Hebrew religious requirements.” He was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 or be committed to the city prison for thirty days and, in addition thereto, that he be imprisoned in the workhouse for thirty days.

In November, 1934, at a meeting of the so-called United Rabbinate — an assembly of a majority of the orthodox rabbis of New York…