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Brussels - Jewish Journalist Who Covered Belgium’s Ritual Slaughter Ban Enters Politics To End It

January 18, 2019 from the Voisizneias:

Michael Freilich, "the longtime editor in chief of Belgium’s largest Jewish newspaper has announced he is resigning and running for parliament, partly in a bid to reverse recent bans in the country on the slaughter of conscious animals for meat." He joined "the New Flemish Alliance center-right party, the largest in the federal parliament."
"The party has placed Freilich in the fifth slot of its ticket for the May 26 regional elections, all but ensuring that Freilich will become a lawmaker in the Chamber of Representatives, the lower house. A victory would make him the first Orthodox Jew to serve there."