The Contraceptive Mandate and Animal Suffering
Peter Singer: if your religious beliefs don’t permit it, don’t do it.
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Can a Pig Heart be Kosher?
What happens when a breakthrough in technology leaves religious scholars without much to go on?
Read MoreKosher Quinoa or Human Rights: Guess Which Dominated Passover Stories
Forget about reflections on Palestinians and liberation let’s talk kosher dog food!
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Cafeteria Cockroaches and Synagogue-State Relations in Israel
Set against the backdrop of the recent closure of a Knesset cafeteria due to an unkosher cockroach, Shalom Goldman takes an entertaining and meandering look at the state of affairs in Israel. Touching on topics as disparate as the alliteration-happy Israeli media and racist policy proposals, Goldman brings into sharp relief some of the tensions in Israeli religious and cultural life, much of which remains at the mercy of the Orthodox rabbinate.
Read MoreDispatches from the Workplace: Postville: Ground Zero for the Intersection of Immigrant and Workers’ Rights
A rural town in Iowa is the home of the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant, a facility that–while already under scrutiny for its poor treatment of workers and animals–was recently the scene of the largest immigration workplace raid in history…
Read MoreIs it Kosher Now? The Evolution of Kashrut in the Wake of the Agriprocessor Fiasco
From Kosher to Eco-Kosher to Righteously Kosher, Jews are amplifying the notion of the sacredness of food to include care for workers and the environment.
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