A Jewish animal welfare group is providing grants for U.S. synagogues to “go vegan” for one year. The Shamayim V’Aretz Institute will donate $5,000 to five synagogues to help offset the costs of only ...
Most Jews will tell you that other than Rosh Hashanah, the Hebrew month of Elul isn’t terribly notable. It’s just the time to make High Holiday plans—right? According to the Mishna, though, the first ...
Natalie Portman stars featured in a new video for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.) Its focus? Oh, none other than Isaac Bashevis Singer. The winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature ...
The theme of The Braid’s latest True Jewish animal stories — and the humans who love them — are at the center of The Braid’s latest salon theatre production. “For the Love of Animals” features 12 ...
Rabbi Dovid Sears, the director of the Breslov Center in New York, is a profound Hasidic thinker. As the author of more than a dozen books, his most recent, The Vision of Eden, is a remarkable ...
How Your Tax-Deductible Donation Went to the Klan, Neo-Nazis, and the ‘Sadistic Souls’ Virginia’s Gerrymandering War Moves to the Courts Audio By Carbonatix In an essay in Mosaic, Eric Mechoulan ...
As Yom Kippur approaches, there are two annual traditions this time of year in Jewish communities: A kaporos festival, and an anti-kaporos protest. This year was no exception. The group Alliance to ...
JTA — Beth Berkowitz was 12 years old, sitting at Shabbat dinner at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, when she noticed something she could not unsee: tiny hair-like feathers clinging to the skin of the ...