PETA slams N.Y. kapparot ritual [VIDEO]

Published on August 26, 2008

For the second year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has complained about the High Holy Days ritual of swinging a chicken over one's head, a sin-transference ceremony

Purim with the cows

By David Suissa
Published on March 27, 2008

What blew me away about the synagogue wasn't the painting on the wall of the old Moroccan rebbe Meier Baal Ness, which I had never seen anywhere else -- not even in Sephardic synagogues -- and which brought back memories of going on pilgrimages with my family as a child in Morocco.

Briefs: Kosher grasshoppers and eco-Torah

Published on July 26, 2007

Briefs

Noah is full of animal crackers

By Shoshana Lewin-Fischer
Published on October 26, 2006

Jewish Journal for kids. Animal Crackers and Halloween.

A grown-up children’s story

By Rabbi Karen Deitsch
Published on October 26, 2006

Noach invokes juvenile fascination upon reading the pshat. But we are not children. And underneath whimsical images and happy songs exists grown-up information to which we must attend if we have any hope for hearing youthful voices in our future.

I Love You, Carnivore

By Rabbi Jonathan Klein
Published on March 2, 2006

My act of civil disobedience -- refusing to consume the flesh of once-living, breathing animals -- has virtually no effect, perhaps none whatsoever. Agribusiness decides far in advance how many cows to raise and then slaughter without regard to my individual case.

A Letter

By Rabbi Zoë Klein
Published on February 23, 2006

To: My vegetarian husband
From: His guilt-ridden wife, who keeps falling off the vegetable cart

A Holocaust-Inspired Vegetarian

By Noam Mohr
Published on June 23, 2005

Recently, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) issued an apology for its Holocaust on Your Plate campaign and exhibit, which showed concentration camp images next to photos of animal abuse on factory farms. The comparison was extraordinarily tasteless, and widely condemned. PETA expressed surprise at the negative reaction, and while they should have known better, their campaign has thankfully ended.

Yeladim

By Abby Gilad
Published on April 14, 2005

Yeladim

By Abby Gilad
Published on March 31, 2005

Yeladim

PETA Renews Fight on Ritual Slaughter

By Kelly Hartog
Published on March 10, 2005

The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has again attacked the AgriProcessors Inc. plant in Postville, Iowa, over what it deems the cruel and inhumane method of ritual slaughter of cattle.

Kosher Slaughtering Proves Humane

By Rabbi Menachem Genack
Published on December 30, 2004

Any slaughterhouse, whether kosher or nonkosher, is by definition a disconcerting, blood-filled and gruesome place. Torah law, however, is most insistent about not inflicting needless pain on animals and in emphasizing humane treatment of all living creatures.

Letters to the Editor

Published on December 23, 2004

Letters to the Editor

The Kindest Cut

By Rob Eshman
Published on December 9, 2004

Last week for Chanukah I wrote about latkes, this week, the brisket.

Kosher Slaughter Controversy Erupts

By Peter Ephross
Published on December 2, 2004

It's not every day that people affiliated with a strident animal rights group talk turkey with those who oversee kosher slaughter.

But that's exactly what happened this week, when an unpaid adviser to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) discussed allegations of improper slaughtering practices at an Iowa kosher meat plant with the head of the Orthodox Union's kashrut division.

A Desert High in Palm Springs

By Lisa Alcalay Klug
Published on March 4, 2004

At the top of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, there are a host of trails -- including a three-quarters of a mile loop through picturesque Long Valley, just behind the Mountain Station that introduces visitors to regional plants and animals.

7 Days In Arts

Published on October 23, 2003

See Spot pray. Blessings go to the dogs today as Newport Dunes Resort's annual Top Dog Fashion Show commences with a blessing of the animals performed by a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister and a rabbi.

The Blow by Blow on Shofarim

By Gaby Wenig
Published on September 25, 2003

Yossi Mizrachi stood in front of a class of second-graders at Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy with a dark, ridged, 4-foot-long buffalo horn in his hand.

Animal Activists Gone Wild

By David Finnigan
Published on September 18, 2003

In the past, PETA has been responsible for in-your-face activism like slinging red paint at people wearing fur coats and breaking into laboratories to set animals free. Their antics have at times influenced public opinion -- such as turning the fashion tide against fur in the '90s. But will this Holocaust campaign have a similar effect?

Campaign by PETA Profanes Holocaust

By Joel Geiderman
Published on September 18, 2003

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) took its campaign equating factory-farm animals to Holocaust victims to the streets of Los Angeles this week with a protest in front of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Tuesday at noon (see story on page 12).

Happy Trails to You

By Ruth Andrew Ellenson
Published on July 10, 2003

At Ramirez Canyon Park in Malibu, Happy Trails offers an opportunity for city-dwelling kids to interact with nature.

Why Keep Kosher?

By Rabbi Debra Orenstein
Published on March 27, 2003

What do cloven-hoofed cud-chewers have to do with ritual purity, much less holiness? In what way do fins and scales on a fish acknowledge God as the One who redeemed us from slavery? The "explanation" for kashrut demands further explanation.

Kids Page

Published on March 20, 2003

Kids Page

Holocaust Exploited

By Joe Berkofsky
Published on March 6, 2003

An emaciated death camp survivor stares blankly alongside a gaunt steer.

Koala Makes Aliyah

By Henry Benjamin
Published on December 5, 2002

Didgee is looking forward to the day he can leave the quarantine cage to snuggle up with his two Sheilas in the shade of a eucalyptus tree, and learn to say "Shalom" as well as "G'day."

Mom, Can We Keep Him?

By Rachel Brand
Published on November 7, 2002

If your kids are out of the house and you're experiencing empty-nest syndrome, how about considering adoption?

Parshat KiTetze

By Abby Gilad
Published on August 15, 2002

This week's parsha is concerned with mitzvot -- mitzvot in time of war, mitzvot concerning marriage, mitzvot concerning lost property, mitzvot concerning animals.

Eternal Treblinka

By Judy Bart Kancigor
Published on April 4, 2002

In the forward to "Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust," animal rights activist and daughter of Holocaust survivors, Lucy Rosen Kaplan, states: "I came to understand that the oppression of nonhumans on this Earth eclipses even the ordeal survived by my parents."