DES MOINES, Iowa – An animal rights group has captured videotape that it says shows cattle at a kosher slaughterhouse enduring an "absolutely outrageous" level of cruelty. "They're ripping the ...

What would a Jewish Jedi eat? It turns out, there are only three kosher animals known to exist. Some were confirmed by film director George Lucas himself in an interview. When you watch the Star Wars ...

From the moment I could walk, I was in love with animals. Not the kind of love people sometimes casually claim, but a deep, soul-aching love—the kind that made me cry for every animal that died in a ...

While the Torah does not generally provide reasons for the mitzvot, the Rambam (Maimonides) asserts that it is appropriate for a person to reflect on the Torah’s laws and seek to understand their ...

The Orthodox Union is promising to institute changes at a kosher slaughterhouse it supervises following complaints from a strident animal rights group. The promised changes at Agriprocessors Inc. in ...

“They have to learn to keep their process good,” she added. Grandin’s positive remarks came as a welcome piece of good news for AgriProcessors, which has come under fire on a number of fronts since ...

Activists calling themselves “Jewish Animal Liberationists” wore funereal clothes and infiltrated a Purim party at a Berkeley Jewish farm to protest their killing of chickens. “We are concerned about ...

Kashrut experts, environmental/animal-rights activists ponder Jewish impact of the ‘test-tube burger.’ For kosher carnivores, news of the world’s first “test ...

Belgium has officially banned kosher and halal animal slaughtering methods, prompting lawsuits from Jewish and Muslim leaders in the country who say the ban amounts to religious discrimination. Jewish ...

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