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Jul 4, 2018, 9:29 AM

In Great Britain Hypocrisy is Kosher

In a worrying development, UK poultry producers have told their government that 60 per cent of chicken processing plants could be out of operation within the next few days. There will be no more chicken for sale in England. I...

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Jun 27, 2018, 3:43 PM

The scandal of the Ethiopians and the wine

Employees of the Barkan Winery who were transferred from their jobs over questions of their Jewishness. (screen capture: Kan)

The Orthodox Judaism I fell in love with at the age of 16 has become distorted beyond recognition

Jun 21, 2018, 3:26 PM

Book review – Hasidism: A New History

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game gets the best players in the game onto two teams every year. But what one see from this is that getting the best players together doesn’t always mean they are integrated team that...

May 13, 2018, 9:43 PM

Just call me Anti-Assimilation Lady

Illustrative: Parrish Hall at the center of the Swarthmore College campus in Pennsylvania. (Wikipedia/Ugen64/Public domain)

Jews on my Indiana college campus feel Jewish, but they don't connect to any of the Judaism I know

Joseph C. Kaplan

May 10, 2018, 7:58 PM

You can go home again

Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. (Wikipedia)

When visiting the old neighborhood is more than nostalgia; it's passing down family lore

Adam S. Ferziger

Apr 30, 2018, 3:35 PM

Kashrut rivalry could force Orthodoxy to change

Rabbi Rafi Feuerstein (2L), Rabbi Dr. Moshe Be'eri (C) and Shai Berman, CEO of the Israel Restaurant Association (L) at a press conference on the establishment of a new Tzohar Kashrut authority in Tel Aviv, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Chipping away at certification revenue might just be what softens a stubbornly rigid rabbinic establishment

Ted Oded Avraham

Apr 28, 2018, 12:06 AM

As a nation, Israel is regarded as conservative-plus by much of US Jewry in terms of religious observance. My own upbringing was mostly non-observant, some would say atheist. I remember contemplating on Shabbat whether to embrace my heritage and join a synagogue...

Apr 28, 2018, 12:04 AM

Be G-d’s Answer

One of the most inspiring stories about the short life of our nephew, Zalmy Plotkin OBM, occurred in ... Burger King. Yes, Burger King. Here is what happened: On a particularly hectic day in the Plotkin home (preparing a Sheva Brochos...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Apr 26, 2018, 11:44 PM

My vegan and other food philosophies

Some people have certain ideas about food without calling them philosophies while others have general or even very detailed food theories. You are what you eat is only true for the Chinese - Wim Kan Traditional Some people just eat what they are...

Melissa Hoffman

Apr 25, 2018, 2:40 PM

Israelis are right to condemn live animal shipments

Screenshot from a 60 Minutes Australia expose aired April 2018 on shipping of live livestock from Australia to the Middle East.

Even meat eaters can avoid consuming the products of this appalling cruelty

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