A Plan for Cleaning Up President Obama’s Mess in Syria
Build a Syrian army from scratch.
October 27, 2016
A California Court Prevents a Yom Kippur Ritual
Animal-rights activists vs. kapparot—and religious freedom.
On the eve of Yom Kippur, a time-honored tradition, now preserved mainly by the ultra-Orthodox, is to perform kapparot, a ceremony in which a chicken is offered up as a sort of atonement offering and then slaughtered and its meat given to the poor. This year, United Poultry Concerns—which campaigns against cruelty to domestic fowl—sued the Chabad house of Irvine, CA for violating a statute prohibiting the “malicious” and “intentional” killing of an animal, and succeeded in obtaining a temporary restraining order from a federal judge, thus effectively preventing the performance of the ritual. Howard Slugh comments:
October 27, 2016
Bringing Scholarship Back to Middle East Studies
War on Error.
No, To Call Someone Who Denies Jews a Land of Their Own an Anti-Semite Is Not to Stifle Criticism of Israel
It’s simply calling things as they are.
A California Court Prevents a Yom Kippur Ritual
Animal-rights activists vs. kapparot—and religious freedom.
School Vouchers, Day Schools, and Fun Holidays Can Get Children Excited about Judaism
Not High Holy Day services.